Funny sports stories

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I like the second one

I don't really have funny from myself, most of mine stem from basketball and I couldn't tell you many of them right now.

But I do have one from my brother that I always laugh at. He played on the City College of San Francisco football team back when they were just jam packed with talent. 21 of their 22 starters went to D1 schools his first year and then 18 of 22 the next year. A bunch of NFL players on that team too, most notable Gibril Wilson who was a starting safety for the Giants when they won their Super Bowl.

The big guy on that team was Chijoke Onyanagetcha (sp?) who actually was a big bust. He was a 6'3 4.4 corner who could have had his pick at any college in the country, they were actually talking about him going straight into the NFL draft and had he done that, he would have been drafted on the first day which he never was.

My brother played guard at the time and he had the assignment of pulling and picking up Chijoke one day in practice. So he pullled and picked him up and his coach just went crazy. He stopped the practice and started just tearing up my brother for not going at him hard enough. So my brother got pissed off, and the coach still kept having a go at him. Chijoke was a big guy, 6'3 and a ton of physical strength but at this time my brother had just set the bench press record at CCSF so obviously the coach was just trying to draw that out of him.

So they finally let them play, same thing and my brother just crushed him. He knocked their star player unconscious, gave him a concussion and Chijoke had to miss 2 games after that. To his credit, his own coach set up his own destruction in berading my brother like that and he knew what was coming but he still stood in for the hit and my brother wasn't unscathed either but obviously didn't get the worst of it. They lost one of those games without Chijoke either which ended up costing them the national title and Chijoke the national player of the year award. The guy who got it was Kevin Everett, the Buffalo Bill who almost lost his legs in the NFL.