I have thought since this thread first started that I may share my embarrassing football moment from my Junior year at JCA/JCHS on Live TV but I have decided that it is just too painful to write, maybe later on if this thread lasts a while.
I have another Wresting story though from my sophomore year at JC.
Wrestling season of 78/79. I had just started wresting on Varsity as a soph 2-3 weeks before as Heavy Weight. I was doing pretty well, I had like a 7-1, 8-2 record and it was just a week or 2 before Districts started. We had a regular dual meet against some school down south, IDK but it seemed like a really long drive.
When warmups started I noticed the other team wore big baby pins on their warmups, kind of like football helmet stickers, and my Heavy Weight opponent had like 40-50 of them running up and down the front of his warmup. No, that didn’t scare me, it just made me pissed and I labelled him a jerk in my mind.
When our match finally started at the end of the meet. I attacked pretty aggressively and did the typical heavy weight head to head lock up. Right away I tried a move from that position that never-ever works, I called it the head jerk take down. All heavy weights do it, but it never really works and basically just gives you a measure of your opponent’s strength and balance and any mildly decent wrestler will just counter it and nothing is gained.
Well, I did it perfectly at the just the right balance point and it actually worked and I quickly spun behind him for a 2-0 lead.
First thing: right away, I could tell he was really pissed and embarrassed.
Second thing: I spent the next 4-5 painful minutes, learning the hard way that he was: 1) Undefeated (all pins) and 2) he was the top rated heavy weight in Illinois, maybe even the Midwest.
He no longer just wanted to beat me and pin me, he was going to beat my ass and toy with me until he was bored and finish me off. FYI there were no Tech Falls back then (I think).
I think he was winning something like 28-2 when he finally finished me off with a pin.