An older friend told me he played on a softball team with Terry 40 plus years ago. Terry played Center field, he would throw the ball on a rope to the catcher from the fence. No cut off man.
The level of ability these guys had as youth is beyond what people understand. I watched a couple of docs on Ray Guy and Kenny Stabler and they too were like the best athletes in their whole state. Could play any sport and dominate. I think people just don't understand the next level ability of professional athletes at any sport. I think more of them could play any sport than we really understand.
So true, in 7th grade I was the best tennis player in my town (our high school has won many state championships). It was nice to have that feeling. One day in gym class the teacher asked me to teach this 8th grader how to grip the racket, and I did. Long story short, he was a phenomenal athlete and within just 3 years he was training at the famous Nick Bollittieri camp in Florida with some of the best players in the country. My boy was THAT gifted and special. He never made pro but had a decent college career, which is respectable as hell. And to your point of these types of athletes playing any sport - he was also the fastest kid in school. He was like an adult as age 15.
I was at Fair Park High School in Shreveport, my home...I knew Terry Bradshaw as a competitor the track meet at Northwestern was the meet of Champions. He was the BEST OF THE BEST...FACT...He was about the NICEST GUY you would ever meet..I was Pole Vaulter...We spoke. But it was because we both were in the field events...This was and Is a good guy...
For every kid that said they just KNEW they were going to make it in pro sports and did make it, there are literally millions that said the same thing, and meant it, that didn’t.
I think terry Bradshaw was elite in his nfl career, but barely, by the nip of his teeth, literally by one stat. If he would have had one more bad play or one more loss he would have only been average. He won four super bowls and did great things but also had many interceptions.
Me too. He did an SEC Championship game in 2012? I think it was Georgia and LSU, and it was insufferable to listen to him. I have got no respect for the clown.
