westend1 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Posted July 23, 2009 Like Shermdog, I can't think of anything that was fun about it. Start a thread about what you hated about it. I hated barrell rolls early in the morning on wet, freshly cut grass. >
HDcats0422 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Posted July 23, 2009 I think the best part of 2-a-days was always the first day of full pads and the first bit of "blood alley"...well actually everytime we done blood alley was fun!
MMSLB Posted July 23, 2009 Report Posted July 23, 2009 Yeah HD we called it shotgun alley,and we got to do it as a reward for a good practice. I remember 3hr practices, no water and only a cup of a gatoraide solution at the mid practice break that was so full of salt you could hardly drink it. Cotton mouth so bad we would suck the sweat out of our jerseys to get some moisture in our mouths. Yeah fond memories. 8)
Guest Ranger83 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Posted July 23, 2009 The best part of two-a-days in 1982, was going to the San Jacinto Mall between practices and watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High every day. Other than that, it was a grind! But there is not a football season that goes by that I do not wish I was 17 and could do it again.
HDcats0422 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Posted July 23, 2009 The 4 years I done it it sucked and I was always hoping the practice week would go by quick and Friday nights would hurry up! But as soon as football was over I was wishing it was two-a-days again!
Guest Lions Posted August 2, 2009 Report Posted August 2, 2009 I think the best part of 2-a-days was always the first day of full pads and the first bit of "blood alley"...well actually everytime we done blood alley was fun! 3 on 3 in the Alley!
the_dude_abides Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 Bear crawls in wet stinging grass and rolling through ant beds. Eating a big bowl of tuna salad for lunch and puking during the afternoon practice. Hearing the coaches yell and scream at the second and third string guys until someone would quit. Having water withheld as punishment...those were the days. And not to be forgotten, watching the coach lock one side of the blocking sled so the fat kid would have to push it around in circles.
spoonbill Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 definitely putting on the cold sweat soaked jock, shorts, shirt and gear. then, trying to choke down salt tablets...oops i'm showin my age. i'm not sure how we didn't kill any of us kids.
HDcats0422 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 We had to take salt tablets before every game, YUCK!
Guest pirates Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 1980, my first year at Lamar. The area was in a huge heat wave, kinda like this year. I remember the trainers walking around squirting water down our backs and handing out pop cycles. During 2 A days we would watch the clouds part just before they would reach the practice field. Could never get them to hang out over the practice field. Get this, these guys are getting old. lol Mike Long and Matt Burnett were student assistant coaches at Lamar then....
hitman009 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 doing air raids in the wet rainy weather. One player, a coach now, ended up with a crawfish in his pants after one run of air raids. He started yelling and floped his pants and out it came. LOL
Bucof2010 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 We had to take salt tablets before every game, YUCK! What's the purpose?
HillGuy Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 Laying down in dewy grass to stretch first thing in the morning while 1000 mosquitos bit me....wow, great memories ;D
HDcats0422 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 Believe they replace the sodium in your body that is lost due to sweating
HillGuy Posted August 3, 2009 Report Posted August 3, 2009 Cheerleaders serving us drinks during water breaks (remember "Quik Kick"?!).
the_dude_abides Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 There was a guy who kept cramping up during the morning practice and one of the coaches told him that the potassium in bananas might help. Well, he came back that afternoon and started cramping up again and the coach asked him if he had tried the bananas. He said yes sir, I rubbed them all over my legs but they arent working. Good thing we didn't have a very complicated playbook that year!
SgtRey Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 Being in the locker room between work outs with the Team....we had no idea what recovery meant...hydration, sleep, eating properly.....we just played....and did it well. :'( :'( , Just kidding :D ;D ;D
liltex Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 Most posts sound like bad instead of best.All we had was water-salt tablets-and Qwik was a van-choc-strawberry milk mix we had at home.My best 2 A Days memory was the 2 days -3 coaches were ill from eating bad food somewhere and we had a fun practice for a change.My worst-Smitty gave me Ben Gay instead of Desitin for heat rash
the_dude_abides Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 Holy crap, I haven't heard that name in soooo long. Smitty was the best. Is he still alive?
liltex Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 Do not know,but Smitty goes all the way back to the days of Woodstock at Dayton High.Not that he participated though.
HDcats0422 Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 Maybe those ice baths after lifting and a long practice, sit in there for right at 5 minutes once trying to break a "record". After a minute you're numb anyways, but I was shivering walking out of the fieldhouse in 100 heat, and shivered til the next practice, could not have been good lol
Lightning/Eagle Posted August 4, 2009 Report Posted August 4, 2009 We had to take salt tablets before every game, YUCK! What's the purpose? Really wasn't a good one. Think they were supposed to help with cramps.
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