What position did you want to try?

[s_morrison57]

I'm not talking about those positions, I'm talking sports player positions.
For me it was goalie in hockey I played once and we lost 6-0 on 4 shots , ya it was bad but the mask was a flush face mask and I couldn't wear my glasses and I'm blind with out them, always wanted to take a shot at goalie with proper equipment.
Football - I was always the bigger kid so I had to play the line and I really wanted to run with the ball or catch it and I never got the chance.
What position did you want to play and never got the chance?
Finn

[jyl]

coxswain?

[Moses]

In high school football we had weekly challenges. You could challenge any starting player for his position. It made for some pretty intense drills.

I challenged the starting fullback nearly every week. I always won, but I was never given the fullback spot. The coach said it was because I already had a first string position (Center). On defense I challenged the middle linebacker for his job and took it even though I was already the starting defensive tackle.

Our fullback was pretty crappy. He was also the coaches nephew. I wonder if that had anything to do with it?

I always wanted to carry the rock. Never got the chance.

[Superman]

Nope. I played the positions I liked. Left Field. Cornerback/Defensive End. Hurdles.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Moses

I already had a first string position (Center).

That makes sense in so many ways...and is a huge compliment.

[Superman]

True. Center is a very important position.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by s_morrison57

I'm not talking about those positions, I'm talking sports player positions.

In baseball I was a catcher until High School...I loved the position, literally everything about it: Involved in every play, the gamesmanship, the verbal interaction, calling the pitches, the f'ing gear. The first glove I ever asked for was a catchers mitt.

It remains to me the most challenging position in all of sports.

I simply outgrew the position size-wise and was moved to Third. I also pitched.

The tools of ignorance fit me well.

My post doesn't meet the OPs original intent, but to get to play a position, then be denied should count

[dienstuhr]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

The tools of ignorance fit me well.

You just described hockey goalies there as well, of whom I was one

Also played left wing.

d.

[GH85Carrera]

Astronaut

[wdfifteen]

Went to a little high school that had 15 or so players on the whole football team, so I got to play all the time. Offensive tackle and defensive end. I loved it.

[mikesride]

Tackle dummy for the lingerie football league!

[peppy]

I loved football, but my parents said that I could not play in high school (afraid I would get hurt), I never played again.

[tabs]

Without pictures this thread is useless...

[scottmandue]

I grew up not knowing how to play any of the sports... no one took the time to teach me... appears they though at school every boy fell from the womb knowing how to play football, baseball, basketball... kinda sucked.

Thus I developed a liking for hiking and biking. Kinda makes me incredulous that people seem to think every vacant piece of land needs to be made into a "park" where kids an play "ball".

Always wanted to be a race car driver.

[crustychief]

[crustychief]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

I grew up not knowing how to play any of the sports... no one took the time to teach me... appears they though at school every boy fell from the womb knowing how to play football, baseball, basketball... kinda sucked.

Thus I developed a liking for hiking and biking. Kinda makes me incredulous that people seem to think every vacant piece of land needs to be made into a "park" where kids an play "ball".

Always wanted to be a race car driver.

I fell out of the womb without the desire or skills to play team sports also! I didn't even know who O.J. Simpson was until he killed his wife.

[scottmandue]

Being a So Cal boy I was lucky to be born in the last part of the golden age of the beach culture.

I was neither wealthy or coordinated enough to have a surf board... but spent many happy hours body surfing and checking out the girls in their string bikinis.

[nostatic]

I was good at particle sports so I got to do most of what I wanted. That said it either pickup games or city-league/intramural. Only HS varsity sport was water polo and not many positions other than goalie and hole (both of which sucked more than playing a wing). College was strictly intramural but it could get competitive, as my broken wrist during a floor hockey game proved.

In little league I was a 2nd baseman. Of course everyone wanted to pitch and as a pitcher I was a great infielder. In softball for intramural and city league I did get to pitch both blooper and fast pitch. Otherwise I was a shortstop. I would love to get back on the diamond but my last games a few years ago both my g/f and son cringed everytime I moved on the field fearing I wasn't going to get up

I never played organized football other than some city league flag stuff. I was a great QB in 2-hand touch on the street. I often wondered if that would have translated to the real game.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by tabs

Without pictures this thread is useless...

+1
I'd especially like to know more about the lingerie football league!

[wdfifteen]

Like Scott and Crusty, I didn't have anyone to teach me sports and didn't have any particular skill. Football suited me because a big part of that sport is the willingness to run into things at full speed, head first. I was well suited for that.