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In reply to the discussion: While watching Nova on HS football, IMO it's time to scrap football or change it to a non contact [View all]B Calm
(28,762 posts)pretty hard blows, especially in college!
One game in high school he ran for 472 yards and the coach took him out with over 5 minutes left in the game. The next day the coach called here at home and apologized for taking him out of the game, he said you're going to read about it in the paper. He said he should have known better, I agree. I guess he only needed a few more yards for a state record. He was all state first team and had all kinds of college offers, then in practice 3 days before the sectional title game he blew out his ACL. He went ahead and played in the sectional with a blown out knee. The next day he had surgery, but the college offers went away.
He ended up playing for a small college that didn't offer athletic scholarships. He made the starting roster the first year of college and was doing great. In his junior year he blew out the other knee and had to give up football. I asked him once when he was playing in college, how do you stand all those 300/400 pound guys tackling you? He said the bigger they are the softer they are, ha.