Your Emotional State in a Game

[Mayfieldsportsfan]

I was wondering what was my fellow BGPers emotional state during a game.

 

I was all business when I stepped on the field and didn't need anything to get me jacked up.

 

Once I got on the field I hated the world and took it out on the opposing team.

 

I didn't want to talk to anyone until the game was over.

 

I never got a unsportsmanlike like penalty the 3 years I played.

 

After the game was over I was back to normal win or lose.

[TheDeuce]

I tried to stay loose as much as possible, even thought I did lose it a few times. They were all justified IMO. :lol: If we lost, I was in a bad mood the next day, maybe all weekend.

[WKYfootballguy]

Good luck this Friday Deuce from all the Mayfield folks!:thumb:

[leatherneck]

Remembering back 22 years (which isn't easy:D) to my high school playing days, I was a very unemotional player. Didn't play mad, didn't jump up and down when I made a big play or we scored, didn't do any of that stuff. It was just a business type approach to things. I just focused on doing my assignment. Our coaches emphasized the "act like you've been there before" and "act like you're going to do it again" approach. If I made a big tackle or big block, I wasn't supposed to get that excited about it as I was only doing my job and I was expected to do the same thing the next play. In other words a big tackle or big block was nothing to get excited about because it was going to happen over and over again in the future and better have happened again and again in the past.

 

DMZ may remember differently, but I remember pretty much our entire team being that way. Kind of a no nonsense, do your job approach. And it worked pretty well for us as we won state.

 

While I realize its different strokes for different folks, I have to admit I don't enjoy seeing the defender jump up and down when he makes a big hit: I'd rather he simply tell the ball carrier "see you the next play" and then head back to the defensive huddle, or a running back or receiver go nuts when he scores, I'd rather he hand the ball to the ref and jog to the sideline thinking its going to happen again the next time we get the ball. I particularly don't like the players who turn to the bleachers and implore the fans to cheer. If they need my yelling to motivate them to do their assignment, they shouldn't be on the field to begin with. And I particularly don't like it when a player scores a touchdown and doesn't hand the ball to the ref.

 

Honestly, I feel the cold unemotional approach is often more intimidating to the other team than the jumping up and down approach. But that's just my opinion.

[TheDeuce]

Good luck this Friday Deuce from all the Mayfield folks!:thumb:

 

Thanks! :ylsuper:

[Mayfieldsportsfan]

Good luck this Friday Deuce from all the Mayfield folks!:thumb:

 

:thumb:

[TonyDanza]

Thanks! :ylsuper:

 

 

I didn't know our Deuce was playing this Friday :confused::confused:

 

Deuce something you haven't told us??? :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[RockPride]

I kind of have a blase look about me, eyes not wide open, etc...almost a lax personality (right TD?), Coach Lampley used to light into me all the time about not being fired up enough....inside I was going a million miles an hour, I was so geeked, but I was not very vocal whatsoever. Here's the funniest thing, out on the streets and such, I am quite confident (arrogant if you don't like me ), but when games start, I say nothing, just go to work. My best friend is the complete opposite, he's like a mouse most days out and about, get him on the field, or court, and he is obnoxious as all get out.

[O-Line 50]

I would have to say I was very emotional before games, but once the games started I just seemed to get into my grove and go to work against the other team. I would be extremely pumped up before games, not really yelling and screaming but more like staring down the other team and other things like that. After that first contact of the game I would settle down and go to work. Man I miss those days

[TonyDanza]

I kind of have a blase look about me, eyes not wide open, etc...almost a lax personality (right TD?), Coach Lampley used to light into me all the time about not being fired up enough....inside I was going a million miles an hour, I was so geeked, but I was not very vocal whatsoever. Here's the funniest thing, out on the streets and such, I am quite confident (arrogant if you don't like me ), but when games start, I say nothing, just go to work. My best friend is the complete opposite, he's like a mouse most days out and about, get him on the field, or court, and he is obnoxious as all get out.

 

What he said! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[mexitucky]

I was always on my toes, moving around. Those water bottles don't get out to the players on their own.

[75center]

Remembering back 22 years (which isn't easy:D) to my high school playing days, I was a very unemotional player. Didn't play mad, didn't jump up and down when I made a big play or we scored, didn't do any of that stuff. It was just a business type approach to things. I just focused on doing my assignment. Our coaches emphasized the "act like you've been there before" and "act like you're going to do it again" approach. If I made a big tackle or big block, I wasn't supposed to get that excited about it as I was only doing my job and I was expected to do the same thing the next play. In other words a big tackle or big block was nothing to get excited about because it was going to happen over and over again in the future and better have happened again and again in the past.

 

DMZ may remember differently, but I remember pretty much our entire team being that way. Kind of a no nonsense, do your job approach. And it worked pretty well for us as we won state.

 

While I realize its different strokes for different folks, I have to admit I don't enjoy seeing the defender jump up and down when he makes a big hit: I'd rather he simply tell the ball carrier "see you the next play" and then head back to the defensive huddle, or a running back or receiver go nuts when he scores, I'd rather he hand the ball to the ref and jog to the sideline thinking its going to happen again the next time we get the ball. I particularly don't like the players who turn to the bleachers and implore the fans to cheer. If they need my yelling to motivate them to do their assignment, they shouldn't be on the field to begin with. And I particularly don't like it when a player scores a touchdown and doesn't hand the ball to the ref.

 

Honestly, I feel the cold unemotional approach is often more intimidating to the other team than the jumping up and down approach. But that's just my opinion.

 

I wouldn't think you would have been too emotional, given that you would have been 28 if you celebrated your 50th recently?

[DMZ76]

I wouldn't think you would have been too emotional, given that you would have been 28 if you celebrated your 50th recently?

 

Math isn't Sarge's strongest suit...but he's dead on in his description of the '75 Champs. We played "old school" ball and left the gyrations and cheerleading to those on the sidelines. As LN was a captain (along with NKPOY, Jeff McMahon) the team took their direction from the leadership that they displayed...do your job, do it well, and the team will excel. Having a boy making a title run on this year's team really brings those old memories rushing back...LN...you still got that tape of the state game for me???

[DMZ76]

I also remember a pretty good defensive run at the beginning of the year where nobody scored on our defense for like the first 5-6 games. When Lloyd scored the first TD against us, they celebrated like they won the Super Bowl. To which our DE replied to them "look at the scoreboard, fools"...they were down by 20 some points.

[72birdman]

Math isn't Sarge's strongest suit...but he's dead on in his description of the '75 Champs. We played "old school" ball and left the gyrations and cheerleading to those on the sidelines. As LN was a captain (along with NKPOY, Jeff McMahon) the team took their direction from the leadership that they displayed...do your job, do it well, and the team will excel. Having a boy making a title run on this year's team really brings those old memories rushing back...LN...you still got that tape of the state game for me???

 

How bad did you guys beat Campbell County that year?:devil: