The Wrestling Thread that's not about anything.....

• Gardens35

  Now that would be rediculous.
• Gardens35

  I'm viewing this right now, might post in a little bit.
• cruiser_96

  

  Let me know when you post something. I'll be sure to comment.
• Gardens35

  OH GOD.......... I'm posting.
  
  
  
  
  
  Go ahead.
• I Wear Pants

  Wolverine12;670784 wrote:Anybody on here young enough to have been beaten by a girl? .....................(on the mat that is)

  I'm young enough that girls were wrestling when I was but I never competed against one.
• de oppresso liber

  Gardens35;670805 wrote:Some may recall this: My first wrestling uniform was a three piece.......#1.The tights, pretty self explanatory, tied at the waist. #2.The Top, it was sleeveless with a long tail in the back with snaps on it that you brought down through your backside, up over your crotch, then snapped into place in the front. 3. Briefs that resembled a speedo/bikini bottom. Worn to cover the snaps etc. of piece#2.
  
  
  
  After they went out of style we sold them to Oak Harbor.

  they weren't speedo pants..they were more like 'tighty whiteys' with color for outer wear. We wore them one year in jr. high. Wrestling really was GAY back then wasn't it?
• Fab1b

  

  FallOffCradle;670838 wrote:Waiting for the day I see a wrestler with a tatoo... of something spelled wrong....

  
  Like tatoo spelled wrong? tattoo
• Gardens35

  No girls wrestled back when. The "statisticians" were called wrestlerettes.
  
  
  Warren G Harding High School in Warren was the first school I saw that actually had cheerleaders at the matches.
• Gardens35

  Some schools in my area that used to have wrestling but no longer do: Columbiana, Newton Falls, Leetonia, Campbell, Youngstown Ursuline, Warren Western Reserve, Warren G Harding.....
  
  Some that have started in the recent past: Poland, South Range
  
  
  I did hear that Colunbiana restarted this season at the Jr. High level.
• herbie

  Hummmm.....wrestling cheerleaders. I can't say I've seen that.
• Wolverine12

  I was going to post something.....
  
  
  
  
  ...............................................................I don't think I will
• Wolverine12

  I know I'm gonna take a crapp-load of "you know what" for this statement, but THIS is definately the thread to bare any personal shortcomings in my character-
  
  what better place than this?--
  
  ---in 10 minites it will be buried, like, 12 pages deep in a bunch of non-sence
  
  but I don't think I would have easily dealt with a wrestling loss to a girl, in front of a gym full of schoolmates and spectators........
  
  
  ........just say'in
• iwrestle365

  "Attack"!!!!
• Gardens35

  Done Deal!
  
  
  I read that somewhere.
• Gardens35

  Wolverine12;670921 wrote:
  ---in 10 minites it will be buried, like, 12 pages deep in a bunch of non-sence....

  That made me laugh.
• bw133

  From the ancient walls of Samaria and from Hieroglyphics written on the tombs of Egyptian Kings, we know that wrestling is a sport of the ages. It touches the lives of all who participate in it and many times even those who just observe it.
  
  Who can forget the emotional victory of Jeff Blatnick over cancer before his gold medal win in Los Angeles in 1984 or the heart rendering upset victory of Rulon Gardner over previously undefeated wrestling icon Alexander Karelin in Australia at the 2000 Olympics.
  
  You can see the impact of the sport in the eyes of even its youngest combatants. Perhaps in apprehension of that very first one on one or that glorious twinkling elation that comes from the first victory over the vanquished foe.
  
  And for those who stay the course for a career, their eyes reflect a passion that penetrates deep into their very soul, a look that impacts for a lifetime and yes a look that makes them what they are.
  Here is an image that I want to leave with each of you tonight:
  
  I am Wrestling! Do not weep for me!!
  Weep for those who will never experience me.
  Weep for those who will never feel the exhausting pain of my training,
  Weep for those who will never sense the bond of Camaraderie that once established, will never wane or die.
  Weep for those who will never comprehend the demands of my discipline
  And most of all, Weep for those poor souls who will never miss me, because they never knew me.
  
  I am Wrestling! Do not weep for me!!
  I have been experienced in virtually every culture and civilization known to mankind. I have been contested in over 150 documented forms in written history.
  There is no Nation on this planet that throughout all time, has not experienced me.
  
  I am Wrestling! Do not weep for me!!
  
  Look to those seated around you and think of the qualities that make them what they are:
  Accountability, responsibility, persistence, fortitude, strength, compassion, work ethic, ingenuity, determination, integrity, honesty, focus, diligence, and resolve.
  Wrestling is not the only place they could acquire these, but By God they all reside here!! And if you live with me long enough these will become you.
  
  I am Wrestling! Do not weep for me!!
  
  No political agenda or political interpretation can ever destroy me. My merit and my worth is no threat to any cause, but rather through my values, I am a model for others.
  
  I am Wrestling! Do not weep for me!!
  
  Celebrate what I am, celebrate what I have been, celebrate what I represent, and celebrate the many ways I have impacted your life. I will survive this test as I have survived others, I am forever etched into the very fiber of all mankind.
  
  The world needs me.
  Time is on my side.
  History guarantees me!
  
  I am Wrestling! Do Not weep for me!!
• Gardens35

  Nice post there 133.
• Fab1b

  

  3rd official front row at my first Florida State Tourny in 2008
  
• Fab1b

  

  103 A State Final 2009
  
  
  I'm not that fat anymore though, LOL down about 20lbs from that pic
• 1_beast

  

  since this a spinoff of a locked thread...maybe it should be locked as well.....just sayin...its crap that people with personal vedetta's got the thread closed....JUST AS I PREDICTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  AND you said you would consider the source of the rant....
• deter1

  

  Do they pay you guys in Florida to officiate the state tourney? The guy in the front row all the way to the right looks thrilled to be there. Like he drew the short straw and was forced!
• deter1

  

  I do remember a guy on our Jr High team wrestling a girl at a local tourney. All I remember is him toying around with her, then she hit the ol 5 on 2. He stopped toying around and finished the match. If I remember correctly, she didn't wrestle past Jr. High.
• Fab1b

  

  1_beast;671003 wrote:since this a spinoff of a locked thread...maybe it should be locked as well.....just sayin...its crap that people with personal vedetta's got the thread closed....JUST AS I PREDICTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  AND you said you would consider the source of the rant....

  
  That is not what happened, and this wasn't a one person decision. Just have fun with this thread please. Check your PM.
• Fab1b

  

  deter1;671006 wrote:Do they pay you guys in Florida to officiate the state tourney? The guy in the front row all the way to the right looks thrilled to be there. Like he drew the short straw and was forced!

  
  LOL that's my boy Wilbert, good dude, and yes they pay us LMAO
• Gardens35

  cool pics