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A Brag and Something to Remember

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I know NFL players are well (overly) compensated and to some degree spoiled. Let's just remember though, how hard you have to work to get there.

Someone mentioned high school football in another thread and it made me want to take a moment and brag.

My son is a high school junior and he has trained for the past sixteen months without knowing what this season may look like. Spring 2020 when they weren't allowed on campus he was doing bear crawls up the hill  and pull-ups on a tree branch in our backyard. Two weeks ago he and his team (Salem Spartans) won the Virginia Class 4 State Championship. They travelled over 4 hours for a true road game and (prepared) played with subpar facilities (it's usually a neutral site but not this year, they weren't given a locker room to use). They overcame a 6-0 halftime deficit and 4 onsides (thanks refs) attempts in the final minute to win 28-20. I was so proud of him and his teammates and their opponents for all they have been through and preserved in the past year.

Really makes you appreciate things as they get back to normal.

Go Spartans! Go Panthers!

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I don't generally agree that NFL players are overly compensated as a whole(individually, certainly). Like you said, it was a lifetime of hard work to get there, most of it without compensation. 

Congrats on your son's accomplishment. All his hard work certainly paid off, as well.

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1 minute ago, Trainwreck said:

Training for a game isn’t working hard. I played sports all my life growing up. I never considered it as “working”. If was a hobby and was all for fun. Kids play this game of football because it’s fun. They get into these big name schools while are kids are being rejected. They spent majority of their college time playing football, not in the classroom. They turn pro, and get paid hundred of thousands to multi-millions. 

Did you play college football?

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No, I spent my time in college in the classes. I don’t want to hear about how difficult it is for sport players to make it to the pros. Those are the last people in this world to know what a “job” or real “working” is. 

Understand, you are talking out of your ass and also never actually worked at sports. 

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11 minutes ago, Trainwreck said:

Training for a game isn’t working hard. I played sports all my life growing up. I never considered it as “working”. If was a hobby and was all for fun. Kids play this game of football because it’s fun. They get into these big name schools while are kids are being rejected. They spent majority of their college time playing football, not in the classroom. They turn pro, and get paid hundred of thousands to multi-millions. 

Agree to disagree. Look up the definition of work and hardworking and training for football definitely fits. Just because you enjoy something doesn't mean it's not difficult and training for your profession (whether you actually make it or not) can definitely be considered work. It's not called playing out it's called working out.

 

And in my son's case he has a 4.4 GPA so he's been 'working' in class also.

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2 minutes ago, Little Goody Two Shoes said:

Agree to disagree. Look up the definition of work and hardworking and training for football definitely fits. Just because you enjoy something doesn't mean it's not difficult and training for your profession (whether you actually make it or not) can definitely be considered work. It's not called playing out it's called working out.

I wouldn't bother with this guy. He thinks playing recreation soccer at 6-7 years old makes him a "former athlete."

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17 minutes ago, Trainwreck said:

Training for a game isn’t working hard. I played sports all my life growing up. I never considered it as “working”. If was a hobby and was all for fun. Kids play this game of football because it’s fun. They get into these big name schools while other kids are being rejected. They spent majority of their college time playing football, not in the classroom. They turn pro, and get paid hundred of thousands to multi-millions. The other kids that actually attend their classes in college? They graduate, have a difficult time finding a job that will pay them good and are in huge debt from school loan. 

You are an idiot.

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1 hour ago, Little Goody Two Shoes said:

I know NFL players are well (overly) compensated and to some degree spoiled. Let's just remember though, how hard you have to work to get there.

Someone mentioned high school football in another thread and it made me want to take a moment and brag.

My son is a high school junior and he has trained for the past sixteen months without knowing what this season may look like. Spring 2020 when they weren't allowed on campus he was doing bear crawls up the hill  and pull-ups on a tree branch in our backyard. Two weeks ago he and his team (Salem Spartans) won the Virginia Class 4 State Championship. They travelled over 4 hours for a true road game and (prepared) played with subpar facilities (it's usually a neutral site but not this year, they weren't given a locker room to use). They overcame a 6-0 halftime deficit and 4 onsides (thanks refs) attempts in the final minute to win 28-20. I was so proud of him and his teammates and their opponents for all they have been through and preserved in the past year.

Really makes you appreciate things as they get back to normal.

Go Spartans! Go Panthers!

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Gotta give a shout-out to my Oscar Smith Tigers from Va. Undefeated season and state champs.

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28 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Not hating, because organized sports is hard. But, honestly, a lot of jobs are hard, and the preponderance of the population is getting shafted in the earnings department. Just saying 

Inflation soldiers on while wages have been relatively flat for more than two decades.

Oh we are all getting screwed in one way or another. 

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