The Boys of Fall

How did Les Miles make an appearance and not Vince? Seriously

Even the cold, dead heart of HenryJames can’t hate all of that video.

Thanks for posting.

Sláinte to all the guys who taught me to play including notorious Aggie but great coach Riley Couch, Pop Warner guru Bill Sevadjian, and first taste of school ball, Hank Gotcher and Phil Seay. Also, most importantly, my brother.

A few things:

Vince being left out is shite. He’s the best college football player of all time. Disagree with me. Who was better?

Dan Marino never won a Super Bowl. Hat? Backwards. Score one for Colin Cowherd. Enjoy the Isotoner gloves as a parting gift.

Good to see Ricky. Wish he’d been in a Texas jersey.

More beer is needed.

Thank God it’s nearly football season.

Oh, and the Bear Bryant clip at the end was cool.

#14’s of the world UNITE! I was too, maybe the lamest football number ever. Start naming the greats, besides us of course.

Is that a picture of you or your eldest? The shitty Northern Mexico grass has me believing it’s you, but damn, it looks just like your boy.

High school football represents everything that is wrong with this country.

“High school football represents everything that is wrong with this country.”

High school football represents everything that is right with this country..

High school football represents everything that is high school football about this country.

That picture looks like Album Park in October. Was that really almost 30 years ago?

“High school football represents everything that is wrong with this country”

Sounds like you might not have played. If that’s the case, it’s ok not to like the video. But for all of us who did play, it stirs up so many emotions. Just like Sean Peyton said, we just DREAM of putting on those pads again. It’s not like baseball or basketball where you can play in a rec league when you’re 25 or 35 (and no, flag football or even tackle football without pads doesn’t come close). For a lot of us, high school was the end of our playing days, but so many experiences and life lessons came from it.

RRR, you’re f’n good.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

If you were a 152# DE in a studly district; and one water break per practice; two-a-day practices in southeast Texas … in August. Guantanamo has more humane living conditions.

I wanted to kiss the turf and dirt at the end of my last two-a-day.

And I’ll never forget the memories or teammates; especially one who was KIA in VietNam 13 months later.

For 20 years, I had pleasant, yet bizarre, dream sequences of HS football. It dominates the mind at such an impressionable age of adolescence.

Nice video.

I did play high school football and I was a scrub, but I enjoyed the football aspect of the experience. I loved two-a-days and the practices. I hated the games, ‘cause I never played and didn’t really care if we won or lost.

That video is wrong because it implies that football represents American values which is not the case. Its just a game.

Kenny Chesney represents everything that is wrong with this country.

Wow, tough break on going form Capri Sun in pop warner to BPI Soda in High School.

Football is just a game, but it also does represent American values. This is regardless of the way you look at it. I love the game because I ended up at a small, private high school where I didn’t know anyone and became part of the football team right away – that gave me a sense of community. It is a team game, where others rely on you and you rely on others, and that is, in its own way, very American. There is something we consider an “American value” in the sense of community someone gets with a team or a unit of soldiers (not in any way actually equating war with football, but the point is sound).

On the other hand, George Will once said: “Football combines the two worst things about America, violence and committee meetings.”

I played strong safety (#22… Mean Machine!) for Jasper back when coaches thought water was bad for you. So the rare water break we got was delivered through a water hose and PVC pipe contraption designed and built by guys who majored in PE at Angelina Jr. College.

Pony cleats are everything that is wrong with America. The blisters they give you make me think the terrorists have won.

Bear Bryant would have ordered a code red on Kenny Chesney.

Ha ha ha ha. That’s the Henry James I know and love.

1. Lindsay Knights. Football is great in high school because it strips away everything that makes high school suck: cliques, looks, snarkiness, money. Everything is reset to zero and everyone competes on equal footing. You end up friends with people that inane teenage social rules would otherwise prevent you from speaking with.

High school football = pretty good

Maudlin, emotionally manipulative Kenny Chesney videos = Private Santiago

I’m not sure, but I think that Gundy-looking kid in the baby blue near the end of the video was Mr. Zellweger himself.

Mr. Sunshine, we beat Jasper at my senior year homecoming by 43 points. Thanks for the memories. SHS

We didn’t want to spoil your homecoming. We’re gracious like that.

Damn, could you put a slower beat in a football video?

Talk about a man that doesn’t understand the essence of the sport. Of course I miss the game (not practice we’re talkin about the games) But I refuse to be manipulated by that blatant attempt to feminize the game of football.

Football might just be the last great bastion of manliness in America, everything else has been taken over by title IX. You’ll know we’re just a nation of punks when football scholarships are reduced to 45 and we have women’s college football that we are somehow expected to watch equally with the men (hello WNBA)

And “boys of fall” ?? the genius that came up with that title is probably the same moron running the “what we make makes us” commercials. What they sucked all the original thinking out of the country?

. . . along with our balls?

My next post will be about wet dreams. Roach is absolutely invited.

Will someone please remix the video with some Spice 1 or UGK so I can actually watch it?

Spice 1? Holy shit, that’s old.

The pride of Hayward, Ca. along with me, The Rock, and Eddie House.

Looking forward to your next post Trips!

Magnus, and my wife.

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