Who did you play sports against in those younger days?

[tjenkins]

Played against Kelvin Torve who had a short stint with the Mets and Twins in baseball. Coached against Chad Greenway, Ben Lieber and Brock Lesnar. In fact, I coached a kid (Chad Duenwald) who beat Brock Lesnar in high school wrestling and Chad is now my next door neighbor. Chad Greenway was tremendous all around athlete!

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by tjenkins

Played against Kelvin Torve who had a short stint with the Mets and Twins in baseball. Coached against Chad Greenway, Ben Lieber and Brock Lesnar. In fact, I coached a kid (Chad Duenwald) who beat Brock Lesnar in high school wrestling and Chad is now my next door neighbor. Chad Greenway was tremendous all around athlete!

Everybody in Clark is your next door neighbor.

[VoodooChild]

"Played" HS Football with Jason Taylor (DE with the Dolphins/Redskins/Jets). I use the term "played" loosely as I never made varsity and he was a year older.

He was a tall and skinny TE in high school. I don't think he even played defense. My high school was known for it's football program and I wouldn't even say he was a top-10 player on the team. Everybody was surprised when he got a full ride to a D1 school (Akron). They must have saw something in him. Four years later, he was 100 lbs. bigger and a 3rd round draft pick. Now, he's a potential HOFer.

[ibuysportsephemera]

I don't know if this counts or not, but I played video pong (pre Nintendo days for those who aren't old enough to remember) with Bobby Nystrom (NY Islanders) when I was 13. He let me score 20 points before he scored 21 straight to beat me.

When I was 15 I worked in a racquetball club and played doubles a bunch of times with some of the NY Islanders that belonged to the club.

Jeff

[coolshemp]

Nothing for me. But my late neighbor played a short game of ball as a kid with Honus Wagner when he was in Boston. Said the guys hands were enormous! And that he was very nice to the kids...

[talkinbaseball]

My brother was a senior in high school, he played center on the football team.
We had a tenth grader on the team named Willie "Sonny" Hall. He later went to USC and became the MVP in 1970. He then had a huge game in the Super Bowl with John Madden's Oakland Raiders against the Minnesota Vikings.

john

[jbsports33]

Tim an Matt Hasselback

[RTK]

3rd base coach of the Brewers