Roethlisberger Leaves Practice Early

[SteelerInLebanon]

Mine was on a kick return. A man sized player grabbed my 155lb jersey, and swung me around. I landed face first on the field. I got the the sideline, and coach started giving me the play (we gave the plays to the WRs and ran on the field back then). I said, Coach, I can't see through my right eye. He said, let me know when you can. It took about 5min, but my sight returned and I went back in the game...

It was a different time back then...

my experience at Knoch was much more modern for 1986. Mr. Purvis our trainer pulled me out for a week and tested me for symptoms. Very much like today’s process and he had final say not the coaches.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Mine was on a kick return. A man sized player grabbed my 155lb jersey, and swung me around. I landed face first on the field. I got the the sideline, and coach started giving me the play (we gave the plays to the WRs and ran on the field back then). I said, Coach, I can't see through my right eye. He said, let me know when you can. It took about 5min, but my sight returned and I went back in the game...

It was a different time back then...

Smelling salts, get back on the field..

 

[Steeltime]

Mine was on a kick return. A man sized player grabbed my 155lb jersey, and swung me around. I landed face first on the field. I got the the sideline, and coach started giving me the play (we gave the plays to the WRs and ran on the field back then). I said, Coach, I can't see through my right eye. He said, let me know when you can. It took about 5min, but my sight returned and I went back in the game...

It was a different time back then...

Yep. Opening kickoff, last game I played, blew up the returner, paid the price. Had double vision ... played the entire first half.

Halftime, coaches finally ask, "What's going on out there?" Me: "I'm having some trouble seeing."

 

[Steeltime]

80s-90s

Oh, and it was considered weak to drink water during practice. You were lazy if you ran to the cooler to grab a drink. Luckily none of us died of heat stroke, and we had 3 a days back then!

Oh, hell yeah, I recall that. During games, we would get water at half-time. "Too much water causes cramps." Seriously, that is what I was told. "Take some more salt pills to prevent cramps."

I remember just wanting the first @#$%ing half to end so I could get a drink of water.

 

[Stryker]

Oh, hell yeah, I recall that. During games, we would get water at half-time. "Too much water causes cramps." Seriously, that is what I was told. "Take some more salt pills to prevent cramps."

I remember just wanting the first @#$%ing half to end so I could get a drink of water.

Yea, those old school coaches were idiots. It's not like our team was even very good. We'd get maybe 4-5 wins a season.

Jr year, we're getting blown out at home for our homecoming game, like 40-0. I get thrown into defense for mop up duty at FS. There was about 1min left in the game, and their 3rd string QB went back to pass, I saw his Z receiver running a post, cut under his route, and picked it off (I was a WR mostly, so it was easy to read routes for me as a FS). Ran it back 50yds, and got tackled short of the end zone. At homecoming dance, I was a god. All the seniors were happy that I made the only play of the game. Super fun moment in sports for me, and more fun for how much it meant to our school, since we were getting hammered.

So after that game, we had to clean up the yard markers, and I'm grabbing the ones on the far side next to the away team, and the coach is chewing the **** out of the QB I picked off. I'm like, ****, you won a shutout on the road, calm the **** down. Back then coaches weren't happy unless they were putting up 100 points on the other team. The way they would run up scores. Not like today, coaches get in trouble for having their starters in the game in the second half if they're up by 20.