What's so bad about this?
When my son was in high school he'd eat about 4-6 of those plates for lunch. Starting defensive back.
1%milk? Ick.
I was the starting free safety for my high school team.
Hard to believe I know, but I loved contact.
Corner Back here... same... loved the contact.
I used to coach my son Matt and a bunch of the other boys on his team back in the pop warner days, we had some undefeated teams. They called themselves the bruise brothers, he was also a free safety on this HS team.
This one game a couple years back Matt's a senior, last home game, and his team was loosing by two touch downs, it was the beginning of the 4th quarter, I yelled down from the stands "hey..... Matt.." loud enough for the all the parents on the other side of the field to all look up... Matt looks up and I give him and the other boys I coached "the signal." This was the signal that I had taught them means it is time to put the other team "down"... "hard..." They knew that signal from the "days." The six that I had coached on this team all showed me back the fist bump... the signal back that they were on it,... it's TX. We start the defense chant pounding the stands.
The other team did not make another first down. Not one. The fourth quarter was all ours. They were pounding the other team like nothing you've ever seen. Matt was in on the next 12 tackles in a row, on the only three series the other team had the ball for. On the last hit with the game tied and the other team on our 25 with 3min left, he hit fullback at full sprint. Matt hit him with a LOUD SMACK, an impact that lifted the full back into the air, he drove the running back backwards a good five yards, picking him up off his feet and pile driving him into the turf.. his best friend recovered the fumble at about the 15.. the crowd went ballistic..
They ran it in with no time left on the clock. It was a great game.