re: Who here played BREC pee-wee football in the 1970's?

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I’ll never forget winning a check for $9.10 from WLCS in 7th grade (they were 910 AM on the dial)

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Would come home from football practice in middle school, grab dinner, go to my room and not do homework while staring at the phone (with the long arse cord stretched across the house) and not call girls while listening to Scotty Drake on WLCS.

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I did...Perkins Park Eagles!

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I did too JP. A few years behind you though. If I remember right either you or BP was in B league while I was in D league on the other fields out there.

Don’t screw with the Sherwood hawks you darn river oaks bengal.

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Along w/ Cherie Rowland, a true woman among girls.

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This is true

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Except you and the OP are both boomers.

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Boomers have all the money.

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Pirate from the late 70's checking in (practiced at Park Forest Middle)

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I was wondering if someone was going to mention the Park Forest Pirates. I played with them in the mid-80s. I think we lost the championship to the Falcons one year.

I played with the Jackson Park Bobcats in the late '70s / early '80s. Not much to say about those years except they led to my dad driving me to Park Forest to play with a different team.

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We had a half dozen black kids (and thought nothing of it)

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You apparently thought enough of it to mention it here.

On the subject or race, in 77 we had just won a Jr League Championship City Championship the previous year for the Bengals and Coach Sonny, probably to humble us, brought in an all-black team from the projects of New Orleans to scrimmage us in the pre-season and it was a track meet. That's when I understood. Before that moment I thought I was a budding superstar.

FTR, I don't want this thread to ever die.

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brought in an all-black team from the projects of New Orleans to scrimmage us in the pre-season and it was a track meet. That's when I understood. Before that moment I thought I was a budding superstar

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EXACTLY. I thought I was pretty fast CB playing in Broadmoor. That next year in Brownsville, I realized I was an average speed LBer.

First game for Mean Machine, that Saturday morning we are grouped behind the bleachers at Westdale Middle waiting for the game before ours to finish up. Our coach whips out a tube of eye black. We are all putting it on and this kid Eldridge (black guy) is helping me. I go to help him put his on and we both freeze and start cracking up laughing. Kid was about the same color as the eye black.

So, I finish applying his, but we had already each put on half a can of stick-em. By the time we got finished warming up on all that fresh cut grass, we both looked like commandos wearing ghillie suits. Couldn't tell our little dumbasses apart.

Dude wore #99, was the smallest kid on the team and was our Tailback. Its the little shite like that I will never forget.