Young man had a heart attack at 20

[herrubermensch]

big high school football teams in Texas having major ped problems

I grew up playing HS football there, and even then, if you weren’t naturally jacked and gifted, kids did anything and everything to compete. I was lucky and for a number of reasons, didn’t go down that route (I also stopped playing early on–just wasn’t big or developed enough) even though I worked out like a fiend and was pretty strong for a 155 lbs. soaking wet 17 year old kid! But I knew guys that, in retrospect, were well below 10% body fat, weighing 180 lbs and benching 335 for reps. I envied the Hell out of them.

Fast forward to today, where social media shows those same folks with even more juice and a ton of photoshop (on both muscles and dicks) and think about the impact it has on a young boy’s self image. We focus appropriately on the pernicious influence of social media’s worship of the stick figure chick with DD tits and a Kardashian ass, but it is every bit as harmful for boys. In all candor, it took me until middle age to escape all of those insecurities, and I grew up before social media. I can’t imagine how bad kids feel about themselves today.

 

[herrubermensch]

Psychological yes.

Without a doubt, I get a genuine high from the occasional a-bomb or additional 20mg of test prop. And even worse, I tend do that when I’m feeling down and need the boost that only a killer two-hour workout can provide. Did it this morning and will do a squat/back/tri workout later today.

So yeah, all of that is a psychological draw. Addictive? Not in the sense of “I can’t live without it,” but definitely in the sense of “I’d rather live with it.”

 

[herrubermensch]

I am happy I grew up when I did. Reading MAD magazine, National Lampoon and Jerking off to National Geographic when I didn’t have a high society or cherry magazine magazine.

THIS!!! Man, does that capture it or what?! So nice to commiserate the passing of that era with like-minded folks.

 

[Poppy]

I’ve been told Texas high school football is a religion!

I’ve read articles where as a boy that was predisposed to be a big kid would intentionally be held back one or two grades in elementary school so he would be way bigger than the average high school kid…for college scouts.

 

[Cluster]

Yeah inner-city black kids do the same and treat sporths alot like that as well. Me nope. Late bloomer build like yours poppy

 

[Mossy1985]

Dallas McCarver played football in Texas.

 

[Dirtnasty]

they used to do that in Massillon Ohio as well. Before the super teams at peeps schools started Ohio used to be right there. When I was sophomore ky team was in the top 25 USA Today poll for a week we were one of four Cincinnati teams along with elder st x and colerain. They used to have herbstreit challenge at nippert stadium a lot of big ins streaks went away there. That’s where I played first game against Moeller we had almost 30000 in attendance at our game.

 

[herrubermensch]

Texas high school football is a religion

It is. Fueled by frustrated parents living through their kids’ athletic achievements and schools seeking prominence. Football is to me the greatest game; I love it. But it can be and frequently is distorted into something that sucks the life out of it. I was grateful my boys all grew up playing in very competitive, but private schools (e.g., they competed against Russell Wilson, who played for another private school in the area). It gave them all the good of football with very little of the bad. And two of them went on to be captains of their Division III college football teams, the other was a four-year starter on a storied college baseball team. None of them quite had the size or athletic ability to be a Div. I starter; almost, but not quite. In retrospect, I’m glad because their experience would have been very different and, I believe, much worse.

 

[Dirtnasty]

I come from a good bread of texas athletes but don’t worry we’ll all be Ohio before said and done