I'm Throwing My Hat in the Ring...

So I've decided that I’m going to try out for a semi-pro football team next spring… that being said, training started TODAY… I’ve always been a naturally gifted player… my one problem has been laziness… that, in and of itself, sums up my entire career with football… I was never as good as I could be because I was unwilling to work hard (kind’ve a coincidence that my nickname would be “Hard Work” huh?)

I’ve played a myriad of positions throughout my tenure as a football players… DE, TE, RB, LT and RT in junior high… DE and LB freshman year, RB sophomore year and RG senior year… the only position that I feel I really loved to play was RB… so… that’s what I’m gunning for… because frankly, if I can’t play that, then I don’t wanna play… selfish…? It might be, but it’s real fucking talk… to put it plain, I was a motherfucking beast at RB… I played at around 250, 260 and I fucking dominated… I ran into my boy Hardy a few weeks back and he told me he still has some tapes of me during those years that are on VHS and as soon as he gets them to DVD, I’m putting them on YouTube and throwing them up here… obviously, I was a straight up power back… if my line just halfway blocked or there was less than two people in the backfield by the time I got the ball, I was getting you positive yardage… I NEVER fumbled… I feel almost like a loser by rehashing this shit (you know how some dudes just can’t let the past be the past) but I was a great player… nobody can tell me different… but I didn’t even work that hard… that was the thing… I ate what I wanted, I was lazy in practice… the only time I really even sprinted was during games… I never tried to work on technique or any of that shit… I just did what I wanted… but this time around, I just feel bad for whoever I’m going up against because I’ll be bigger, stronger and faster than I’ve ever been… my mechanics, mindset, determination is just going to be on some other shit… I’m aiming for 275 as my goal but I’ll probably play around something closer to 260… I’m just going to be unstoppable simply because I have the resolve to make everyone else look like shit… that’s really my only motivation… to make everybody else on the field look like a pussy…

To try out for most teams (and I’m not sure which one I’ll be trying out for because I’m not exactly sure where I’ll be living by then) the team will hold a mini-camp combine of sorts… which means they’re going to test me on six main criteria:

Bench Press
40 Yard Dash
Vertical
Shuttle Run
Broad Jump
Position Drills

Now quite frankly, I’m not worried about bench press (after not lifting weights for almost four years, I still threw up 225 today like it was nothing… by the end of the summer, I’ll be back to pushing 300 on a regular basis and back to maxing out at 400 by December… trust and believe that), the shuttle run (my agility is bananas) or the position drills (I can run, catch and block… ‘nuff said)… I am a little worried about the 40 yard dash, the broad jump and the vertical though… simply because I haven’t done these since high school (back in ’02… LOL) so we’re talking a lot of time since I’ve trained for these… I’m just trying to get my strength back now but around October, I’m gonna hit the plyometrics hard… if I can get a 35+ inch on the vertical and a sub 4.6 40YD, I think I’ll be fine…

In the meantime, I’m using these for motivation, word to T.I.





Ya’ll be easy…