Am I the only Jock/Nerd here

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Yes, I played sports. And yes, I hung out with beef necks. But I do like to think about concepts that those beef necks once considered deep.

anyone else?

I am multi-dimensional. But ironically enough, this does not lead to popularity. I never quite fit with any group.

I was too good for the bad crew, and too bad for the good ones. What a dilemma.

anyone else?

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yup

played pretty much everything growing up - baseball, hockey, and basketball competitively - and still love playing pretty much anything

competitively my best were baseball and hockey

i kinda miss baseball :frowning:

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I played football in High School.

I still play a little backyard Football and some Street Hockey once in a while.

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If there is a sport, I pretty much played it. I didn’t play football competitively for the simple reason
I was too small, but did everything else. Baseball, cross-country, track, water polo, swimming, rock climbing, biking,
backpacking, softball, even tried golf once, (hated it). It was only after my spinal surgery that I pretty much stop
playing sports. (and gained 20 pounds).

Kropotkin

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I was playing football (sokrrrrrrrr) in the dark this evening. No one could see who was on their team, so it got a bit like African football. No passing, just dribbling at the goal and shooting on sight. A more innocent game in many respects.

I was never a jock, but I did play for my school rugby team for years. Rugby is like your American run and carry ball but without the padding, the helmets and the advert breaks.

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I was one of the sproty kids at school - I was on the track & field team and netball team, and also dabbled in gymnastics, basketball, hockey, ice-hockey, badminton, and weight-training, which is probably why I still love to work-out and keep fit and healthy otherwise I feel like a real loser if I’m not. #-o I also snowboard… and love it! :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess I fell into the sporty/brainy group of students, so I was one of the popular kids, but I loved the fact that I could hang-out with any group that I wanted and everybody always knew who I was even if I didn’t know who they were… :confused: that freaked me out at first, but I guess I became immune/numb/used to the fact…

I’m thinking of competing in a triathlon in the next few years, as I might as well put my fitness to good use :wink:

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LOL Nice.

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I can’t take credit for that one, I think it came up here before when I was ranting about why American football is called football. Possibly during the last (sokrrrrr) World Cup.