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Real Stories that Sound Fake...
Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:28 pm
The Metcalf things with the twin brothers at a track meet jogged an old memory.
My Dad started coaching basketball in 72. He was pretty good at it but back then you didn't just coach one sport. You had a fall and spring coaching job. My Dad hated baseball and ran track in college, so he coached track. Easy job. You blow a whistle and make kids run.
He had a set of twins on the team. One was your standard 6 foot, 130 lbs, fast as frick kid that ran the 200 and 400. The other twin was supposed to be identical but was a 100 lbs heavier and and just a bit "slow". But back then if one kid played a sport EVERY other family member played that sport. Mom wasn't dropping off and picking you up from two different places at 6 o'clock. Sports were after school care. You played something so Mom or Dad didn't have to swap shifts to pick you up.
One Saturday meet, the big twin was walking across the field when they were throwing discus and an errant throw hit him in the back of the head and split him to the white meat.
I'm sure my Dad did a few hospital visits but Track is a spring sport and summer break comes fast. Before social media so...you just didn't see people for months.
2 a days start and my Dad thinks he's talking to the little twin who was a running back. Nope it was the big twin.
When they did an MRI or X Ray after he got knocked out, they discovered a mostly benign mass that was causing hyper thyroidism. They removed it. He lost weight and all of a sudden he was the same size as his brother.
Going to see them both in a month at my Dad's 75th birthday celebration.
Life is strange,
Life is good,
Life is all that it should be.
My Dad started coaching basketball in 72. He was pretty good at it but back then you didn't just coach one sport. You had a fall and spring coaching job. My Dad hated baseball and ran track in college, so he coached track. Easy job. You blow a whistle and make kids run.
He had a set of twins on the team. One was your standard 6 foot, 130 lbs, fast as frick kid that ran the 200 and 400. The other twin was supposed to be identical but was a 100 lbs heavier and and just a bit "slow". But back then if one kid played a sport EVERY other family member played that sport. Mom wasn't dropping off and picking you up from two different places at 6 o'clock. Sports were after school care. You played something so Mom or Dad didn't have to swap shifts to pick you up.
One Saturday meet, the big twin was walking across the field when they were throwing discus and an errant throw hit him in the back of the head and split him to the white meat.
I'm sure my Dad did a few hospital visits but Track is a spring sport and summer break comes fast. Before social media so...you just didn't see people for months.
2 a days start and my Dad thinks he's talking to the little twin who was a running back. Nope it was the big twin.
When they did an MRI or X Ray after he got knocked out, they discovered a mostly benign mass that was causing hyper thyroidism. They removed it. He lost weight and all of a sudden he was the same size as his brother.
Going to see them both in a month at my Dad's 75th birthday celebration.
Life is strange,
Life is good,
Life is all that it should be.
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Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:34 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
My wife went to high school in the Appalachian mountains. Two football players get into a fight. One pulls a .25 caliber pistol and shoots the other one in the head. After the shooting, the shot football player maintains consciousness and goes to his football coaches house because he lived really close.
They take the kid to the hospital and find that the bullet is lodged in a previously unknown cancerous tumor. They do surgery, remove the tumor and the bullet and because it ultimately saved his life, they let the shooter off.
This would have been around 1987.
They take the kid to the hospital and find that the bullet is lodged in a previously unknown cancerous tumor. They do surgery, remove the tumor and the bullet and because it ultimately saved his life, they let the shooter off.
This would have been around 1987.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:39 pm to eitek1
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My wife went to high school in the Appalachian mountains. Two football players get into a fight. One pulls a .25 caliber pistol and shoots the other one in the head. After the shooting, the shot football player maintains consciousness and goes to his football coaches house because he lived really close.
They take the kid to the hospital and find that the bullet is lodged in a previously unknown cancerous tumor. They do surgery, remove the tumor and the bullet and because it ultimately saved his life, they let the shooter off.
This would have been around 1987.
Sounds like that woman who survived being shot in the stomach because she was too fat for the bullet to penetrate any vital organs. I want to say this was a few years ago but I'm old and time dilation is real...
Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:43 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Ed Orgeron won a National Championship as a HC
Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:48 pm to FAT SEXY
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Ed Orgeron won a National Championship as a HC
So did Gene Chizik....
Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:52 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
My sister is standing in line at the Navy credit union in Rota, Spain. The person next in line has a southern accent. They get to talking and discover they are distant cousins.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 3:57 pm to eitek1
quote:
My wife went to high school in the Appalachian mountains. Two football players get into a fight. One pulls a .25 caliber pistol and shoots the other one in the head. After the shooting, the shot football player maintains consciousness and goes to his football coaches house because he lived really close. They take the kid to the hospital and find that the bullet is lodged in a previously unknown cancerous tumor. They do surgery, remove the tumor and the bullet and because it ultimately saved his life, they let the shooter off. This would have been around 1987.
Sounds like bullshite and nothing online.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:01 pm to Philzilla2k
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Sounds like bullshite
That's kinda the point of the thread, cous.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:06 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Cool story but coaching track is not “blow a whistle and make kids run.” In high school there are 18 events. Can you teach a kid how to throw a discus? Javelin? High jump? Four-step instead of five-step hurdle? Plan a miler’s workouts for four months from early season to peaking at state? That’s what I thought.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:12 pm to KingOfTheWorld
It was 55 years ago baw. It’s possible it was close to what he said
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:20 pm to Philzilla2k
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Sounds like bullshite and nothing online.
Why on earth would you expect an event from a small town in Appalachia from 1987 to be on the internet.
In this very same town about 5 years ago, the wife of my wife’s first cousin shot herself in the head, killing herself, in the bedroom with her husband while he was asleep.
There was zero police investigation, none. The cops were like, “yeah, she was a bit off”. No investigation, none charges, nothing.
Trust me, I’m not surprised it’s not on the internet.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:25 pm to Philzilla2k
quote:
Sounds like bullshite and nothing online.
My wife told me this story… A group from her school went to Dollywood. She said on one of the rides (I don’t recall which one, it was the one with all the water in a building) a student was bit by a snake.
I was like “Yeah, right”. Years later we went to Dollywood. We walked past that ride as they were wheeling a guy out on a stretcher and he was saying “did y’all find the snake that bit me?” I personally witnessed that and I thought she was full of it.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:40 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
My coworkers son thinks he’s a girl, so he had his penis chopped off.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:44 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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When they did an MRI or X Ray after he got knocked out, they discovered a mostly benign mass that was causing hyper thyroidism. They removed it. He lost weight and all of a sudden he was the same size as his brother.
Guy I know had his 7 year old in backyard swinging golf club hitting practice balls across the yard. Younger son walked in swing path and got hit hard enough they needed to bring him to ER. They found a brain tumor in that scan.
Caught it incredibly early because of the freak accident.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 5:32 pm to KingOfTheWorld
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Cool story but coaching track is not “blow a whistle and make kids run.” In high school there are 18 events. Can you teach a kid how to throw a discus? Javelin? High jump? Four-step instead of five-step hurdle? Plan a miler’s workouts for four months from early season to peaking at state? That’s what I thought.
Dude my Dad was a national champion miler, 2 miler and ran cross country for fun. If a kid wanted to learn, he would teach them, but you can't teach fast or inherent cardio efficiency. You either are or you aren't. How many high school kids want to sacrifice to gain that half a percent to be elite? Track is a placeholder sport for most kids. Most of the time you tell them "That direction and run fast..." Or " That direction...throw far."
Jesus fricking Christ, I lettered in when I was still in middle school. Most track coaches do frick all.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 5:45 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Was in Orlando visiting a friend. Went out to some bars and met up with some friend of his. Met one woman there that was from Massachusetts and I tell her that I only know one person from Mass, a guy I went to Bama with who ended up transferring because of gambling issues. She laughs and says his name before I had a chance to. Turns out that he was her husbands best friend. She calls her husband over and we get him on the phone, his mind was kind of blown.
To that point in my life I had only met three people from Mass, both in very different places, nowhere near Mass and they all turn out to be close friends.
To that point in my life I had only met three people from Mass, both in very different places, nowhere near Mass and they all turn out to be close friends.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 5:52 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
quote:people like to make this comparison but Chizik was at least a high level defensive mind. I just don't see Ed being on his level.
So did Gene Chizik....
Posted on 6/6/26 at 6:20 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Back in the early 1990s myself and 2 of my good friends were dating 3 girls that were all from the same small private school. The 3 girls knew each other, but were not really good friends among the 3 of them. We went on several group dates and we all dated for almost a year, but all the relationships didn’t last.
Fast forward to 1997 and 1 of my friends is getting married( totally different girl). I was best man and our other friend was a groomsman. We had a little bachelor party get together and we pondered what happened to the 3 girls we used to date. We had lost track of the 3 girls and no idea where they ended up.
Wedding goes off without a hitch and my buddy goes to Vegas for honeymoon and our other buddy’s ex-gf we were talking about at the bachelor party was a flight attendant on his flight. He thought “what a coincidence”. He asked what happened to the other 2 girls and she didn’t know for sure, but thought one of them went to college for hospitality management.
Flight lands and he goes to his hotel to check in with his new bride. He says there was an issue with their room and he asked to speak with a manager and the front desk employee called for the Jr manager and it was the girl I used to date. He said he was blown away. We had just talked about these girls a few days ago, hadn’t seen them in 5 years and saw 2 of the 3 in just a few hours. One hell of a coincidence.
Fast forward to 1997 and 1 of my friends is getting married( totally different girl). I was best man and our other friend was a groomsman. We had a little bachelor party get together and we pondered what happened to the 3 girls we used to date. We had lost track of the 3 girls and no idea where they ended up.
Wedding goes off without a hitch and my buddy goes to Vegas for honeymoon and our other buddy’s ex-gf we were talking about at the bachelor party was a flight attendant on his flight. He thought “what a coincidence”. He asked what happened to the other 2 girls and she didn’t know for sure, but thought one of them went to college for hospitality management.
Flight lands and he goes to his hotel to check in with his new bride. He says there was an issue with their room and he asked to speak with a manager and the front desk employee called for the Jr manager and it was the girl I used to date. He said he was blown away. We had just talked about these girls a few days ago, hadn’t seen them in 5 years and saw 2 of the 3 in just a few hours. One hell of a coincidence.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 7:05 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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Real Stories that Sound Fake
The story of Brady Feigl and Brady Feigl
Posted on 6/6/26 at 7:10 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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It was 55 years ago baw. It’s possible it was close to what he said
You think Olympic track & field coaches in 1976 just blew a whistle and told athletes to “run?” Complete bullshite. Yeah, I’m invested in the issue as a college track athlete and former high school track coach, but the idea that track is just handing a football assistant coach a whistle and telling kids to run is so stupid. Coaching track at a championship level - especially with zero or very few assistants - is one of the hardest coaching jobs there is.
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