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| posted: 2019-07-04 02:32:45 (ID: 100141011) Report Abuse | |
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An old high school football teammate of mine, Jared Lorenzen, unfortunately passed away today at only 38 years of age. I haven't spoken to him since graduation, and I'm not looking for sympathy. But I did want to share a little about him with a football-loving crowd. Here are three of my favorite anecdotes about his high school days:
After a practice, he was goofing around and was kneeling at about the 30 yard line. He took a football and threw it through the uprights. That is about a 45 yard throw using only upper body strength. In a game against our arch rival, he took a designed bootleg run. About 15 yards later, and dragging 7 defenders, finally an 8th player was able to jump on the pile and bring him down. In the playoffs, on a drop-back pass, none of our WRs could get open. He scrambled back and forth buying some time and then heaved a pass from about the 10 yard line and hit a WR in stride on about the opponent 40 yard line (a 50 yard pass!) who ran it in for a TD; the WR was open because the defense did not think it possible a high school kid could throw that far. Getting to play with him was an honor and a pleasure, and he was a great guy on top of it all. Despite all of his success and fame, he always was humble. |
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| posted: 2019-07-04 12:17:45 (ID: 100141030) Report Abuse | |
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I did not know who he was, but I always had a thing for "out of the norm" players. Nice sharing.
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| posted: 2019-07-04 15:06:29 (ID: 100141037) Report Abuse | |
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Sorry to hear about the loss. Seems he left kind of a footprint, and memories are good. This is what I wish for myself once the time has come.
R.I.P. |
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posted: 2019-07-04 18:42:40 (ID: 100141045) Report Abuse |
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Always sad those kind off things
Back in the days when I was playing football in the Netherlands one of my teammates died in a carcrash. The whole team was, in full gear, at the funeral and 6 of us carried the coffin to the grave. 2 or 3 days later we had a game. We all had his number on our helmets. And, as if it should have been, our RB who was one of his best friends, took a sweep left all the way in for a 60+ yard TD on the very first play of the game. |
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posted: 2019-07-05 10:22:16 (ID: 100141066) Report Abuse |
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Those storys counter sad eyes with laughing ones, and last forever. Thanks for the share, Doc.
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posted: 2019-07-05 18:33:15 (ID: 100141100) Report Abuse |
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yeah cheers for sharing buddy at a tough time,the bloke sounds as strong as an ox.thoughts with his family and friends
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| posted: 2019-07-06 21:07:57 (ID: 100141137) Report Abuse | |
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He was always fun to watch and, from everything I've heard and seen about him, a really great guy. Thanks for sharing some memories with us.
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Csnipes
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posted: 2019-09-11 14:38:10 (ID: 100142959) Report Abuse |
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If u want to learn his story watch this link.
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