Saturday, January 5, 2008

Things that make me understand why I'm not in the NFL

So I'm sure everyone has watched an NFL game and seen an WR drop a pass and promptly said "oh my god, I could have caught that." Well I will admit that I did it two minutes ago when I was watching the high school all-american game and this kid dropped a ball that hit hiim in the friggin chest. (On a side note, if you didn't watch the Under Armour game today, remember the name Julio Jones. That kid is going to be sick, he broke three tackles every time he touched the ball.) So I was looking on rivals.com to check out the kids stats who dropped this pass and that somehow migrated into watching this clip of Sam McGuffie, who is a baller (and he's going to Michigan).



That's pretty awesome when your signature move is jumping over another guy on a football field. Anyways, I found another clip of McGuffie, doing a front flip over a kid...who is almost 6 feet tall.



Ok he is bent over, but still...that is ridiculous. Just so you can follow my train of thought, my brain started wondering what other crazy shit athletes can do that I can't do. I know this could be never ending, but here's what I have so far.

I can't jump 66 inches in the air like Adrian Wilson can, no that is not a typo.



I had to watch that four times to appreciate how amazing that is. I also can't jump over cars like Joey Gaithright...



I also can't do the majority of what these guys do with this soccer ball...



I can watch that video all day; that is amazing how easily they do all of that stuff. Another thing I can't do is this 540 high kick that I feel all Asian people can secretly do.



Notice how high the thing is that he's kicking and then try to act out kicking it yourself. Only then will you appreciate how impressive is is. I'll be adding more stuff as I find it...feel free to let me know what else I can't do.

(UPDATE)

I have continued my search of things that make me realize I would have never made it in professional sports, I landed on this bad boy. The kid in this video is 13...13 freakin years ol, he's not even in high school and he is filthy at shooting puck.



OK, THIS DUDE IS NUTS



It's not that I couldn't do that, I would never want to do that...ever...for any amount of money.

I don't know if I would have the cajones to throw myself into this monster regardless of whether I devoted my life to surfing or not...

You know what, I would hate myself if I didn't give it a shot, and you would too...

Either way, there is no way you appreciate how big and how powerful this wave is...look at the ceiling of your room, multiply it by four, and then get the cajones to surf down it on a piece of cardboard...yeah, now you know what I'm talking about...oh wait, give it the speed of a local highway....at the same size....

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