(S4) - PT #2 - Dual Sport Stars

[PDXBaller]

Eli Kamaka played a small variety of sports growing up, but football was always the main one. As a kid, he dabbled in some baseball and really enjoyed hitting the ball with a bat. Eli wasn’t agile by any means, but he could certainly run the bases if he needed to and played catcher in little league. He didn’t play much outfield since he wasn’t a great sprinter and couldn’t catch the ball well in the field.

When he got to high school, Eli started lifting weights through a physical education class and that sparked his interest in weight lifting and power lifting as a sport. He hit the gym nearly every day of the week in between football practices and worked on getting higher numbers every time he hit the bench or squatted a bar. You could count on finding Eli at football practice or in the weight room since he was so consistent with his training.

He got close to setting some records in the teen squat and bench press categories. By senior year of high school he was squatting close to 280 kg and benching 170 kg. Not superb numbers for his age and weight class, but pretty astounding numbers overall.

[cosbornballboy]

Ricardo Sandoval was never confined to one sport. In fact, he didn't play football until he entered high school. He played a wide variety of sports, including baseball, basketball, golf, wrestling, flag football, and water polo. His true passion was basketball, but he had a terrible jumping ability and the truth of the matter was that he was not entirely all that fast, so the sport of basketball was out of the question. He also played baseball, but he was godawful with a glove. Sure he could hit the ball a mile, but unless you're in the MLB, you have to be an athlete to play baseball, be able to play whatever they need you to play. He was decent at golf but unable to overcome the skill of all the affluent Asians who were absolutely insane at the sport. He almost drowned playing water polo, so enough said there. Flag football was not physical enough for him, so he joined wrestling, where he hit his stride. He was undefeated in 5 years of wrestling in San Diego, eventually becoming ranked 10th nationally in juniors. Then he joined football when he entered high school and, as they say, the rest was history.

[Zoone16]

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Growing up in Montreal and having every kid in town fantasizing on becoming a professional hockey player and playing for the Montreal Canadiens is a must. The same is true for Alexandre LeClair who for a long time debated between joining the QMJHL for hockey or whether to go through the NCAA route to pursue a Football scholarship. Playing hockey, LeClair was actually a pretty solid Center for his high school team. His best friend, Alex Light (pro SHL player on the West Kendall Platoon), was on the same team as him and the two made quite the pair, to the extent that scouts from the QMJHL were looking to snag the two as a pair. The difference between them though is that LeClair also enjoyed Football and with a strong Canadian Football system in the province of Quebec the support was there for LeClair to rise to national glory.

However it wasn’t until the last year of high school where he received a substantial scholarship offer from Northwestern, after winning the Canadian high school national football championship, that he made the decision to pursue his career on green field. Eventually the young quarterback joined the NSFL in its inaugural season. He eventually made a position change to Wide Receiver and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Bzerkap]

Before finding his true calling as the only mid-career offensive lineman to running QB player in NSFL history, Mat Akselsen played many sports. Growing up in a small town of 842 people, there wasn't much opportunity for large team sports. This allowed Mat to grow his skill in individual sports. He really excelled at golf, and and after seeing all the women Tiger Woods was able to sleep with, he thought this was the sport for him. One problem, Fertile is a very small and poor town; there was no golf course within 100 miles and the family tractor maxed out at 20 mph.

So over the course of a couple summers, Mat went out into the woods and hacked away at the trees, constructing his own clubs, and fairways. By the summer of his sophomore year he had made a two hole golf course. Now Akselsen was known for technique on the football field but pure strength when swinging the club. He never had much in the way of accuracy. There was many a time he hacked the ball a country mile, straight into old Mrs. Wilson's bird feeder. She didn't mind though, she was so old she couldn't see shit anyway. His father bought him Dave Pelz's short game bible one year for Christmas and he instantly improved his game, becoming very well rounded.

Now as he slings the rock in practice, Mat sometimes wonders what life would have been like had he pursued the great sport of golf as his calling.

[Evok]

One of the most famous player that played two sports is Logan Noble. Noble was a reputed Quarterback playing for the Colorado Yeti. He was so good that it actually became suspicious for other users. This is when Noble’s second favorite sport came into light. Cheating. It was brought up by some users that Noble had cheated through his whole career. He claimed to have train as hard as everyone else has when it was not the case and still gained the bonuses for it. Noble was suspended for a few seasons most likely ending his career. Everyone thought it was the end of him. However, turn out he cheated even more. Recently, it came into light that Noble assumed a new identity in order to be able to play again his second most loved sport, football. He assumed a new identity, a new name, learned a new position and subscribed for the new draft. It was discover because Noble is not a good actor. As Atkins (his new identity), he knew the league too well, created deep article covering stories a new users should not know. He also forgot to change his language and his habits. People knew Noble, they knew when he would be at the bar, when he would be at the stadium … and everything Atkins was doing was the same as Noble was doing before …

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[manicmav36]

Owen Taylor was a two-sport kid most of his life. In the summer he would play baseball, in the fall he would play soccer, and in the spring, he would play both baseball and soccer. He did TRY playing basketball a couple winters, but he was terrible. Like… really bad. We don’t talk about it.

He started baseball at the age of 5, when most of his friends started, and continued playing up until high school. He was always a pretty quick kid, so started his career playing in the outfield, but eventually moved to catcher, mainly because no one else wanted to. He loved it. He got to wear all kinds of sweet pads and always got really dirty. Never really much of a power hitter, Taylor excelled in hitting to the outfield gaps and was an extra-base king. Unfortunately, when tryouts for baseball rolled around his freshman year of high school, Taylor was still recovering from a football injury, and was unable to throw at tryouts. Being unable to throw (or do really anything), he was promptly cut.

Determined to play at least two sports in high-school, Taylor tried out for the soccer team. Although he was still a little limited, Taylor made the team as a mid-fielder. Once fully healed, he was moved to goalie of the JV team, where he excelled. He was named the started his sophomore year, and finished his soccer career as the all-time leader in both saves in a season, and career.

[JKortesi81]

The one thing Carlito Crush loved doing when he was a kid growing up, was going to the gym with his father, former World Champion wrestler, Brutus Crush. Carlito would hit the weights with his dad and the other wrestlers and, as a teen, would be lifting weights about as heavy as some of the wrestlers! Carlito is proud of his father, and as a result, decided that he wanted to be a wrestler too. While Brutus never wanted his son to get into the ring and end up with the nonstop lifestyle he had, he knew he had to let Carlito try. So in the Dominican Republic, Brutus trained his son to be a wrestler alongside some other local kids looking to pursue their dreams. Carlito showed he was his father’s son quickly, adapting much faster than the other boys. Because of this, Brutus pushed him harder. Carlito was taking many bumps, and practicing many moves. Eventually he thought he was good enough to be in a match. Brutus knew his son wasn’t ready, but hooked him up with a match during a local event. He had a friend of his wrestle his son, knowing he’d take care of him in the ring. Carlito wasn’t very good, but he tried his best. It was a 6 minute match. Carlito lost of course, and that was okay. Newcomers tend to lose early on. The next day was the true challenge however. Carlito couldn’t get out of bed to lift the next morning. He decided he didn’t want to feel this way for the rest of his life and instead focused back on weightlifting and football. (275)

[CFJ]

Before the DSFL got a glisp at the genetic beast known as Kenny Omega. Kenny Omega was known as the six-star king having two spectular matches with current IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazchuika Okada, though him coming out on the losing side in both matches he was able to celtify himself as one of the top Professional wrestlers in the world today. Before that he was IWGP Intercontiential Champion as well as IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion and before that was part of the Golden Lovers with the Golden Star Kota Ibushi have matches with and against Kota in DDT Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Kenny made a drastic increase in muscle mass when former Bullet Club leader AJ Styles was kicked out of the group due to him leaving for the WWE, he was also able to create The Elite consistenting of him and the Young Bucks Nick and Matt Jackson as they look to become then the nWo was as well stables such D-X, Evolution and The Shield in their counterpart fed the WWE, Kenny is currently part of the most merch selling version of the Bullet Club. But, Kenny gave up his IWGP U.S title to try his hand at a new craft which is the world of Pro Football and the hopes of becoming one of the greatest Wide-Recievers in NSFL history.

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[acki]

Alex Hansen has not always been the great safety that he has been in the NSFL. There was another sport that took his heart before, and that was none other than the great sport of Hockey. Growing up when he did, the kids used to get together and play everything together, just depending on the weather. They played baseball, football, softball, and hockey in the winter. That sport stuck with Alex Hansen. He was always a bigger guy, and man oh man did he have a power shot. He grew up on the ice skating with his friends and learning to prove that he was a force to be reckoned with on the ice. He was a hard hitter as well, (probably why he’s also such a hard hitter here in the NSFL). Hansen was a man that could do no wrong in the rink, but he decided in high school to focus more so on Football. He still dreams and plays Hockey now and again, but Football is his new love. Everyone sometimes looks back at their old love, which Hansen does every now and again, and you can still sometimes catch him going to ice rinks in San Jose to play Hockey with some of his old friends.

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[AsylumParty]

Dustin Evans can't do anything right. He's played every sport. All. The. Sports. He's had his left buttcheek bitten off in a gladiators arena. He suffered several concussions from big time rugby hits, getting pummeled in the head with a volleyball, and knocked the fuck out during a boxing match with his six year old niece. Dustin has had multiple black eyes from being his with baseballs. He's lost both front teeth (twice) from when he was hit with a soccer ball.

In fact, the only sport that Evans isn't dreadfully terrified of us football. He gets to run away from people that want to hurt him and no one thinks he's afraid for it, but he really is. What a bum.

Dustin's next favorite sport, however, is underwater hockey! Sometimes it is referred to as octopush. Essentially players attempt to score a goal by getting the Puck into the opposing team's net using their sticks. The sticks are usually water polo sticks and the puck is a normal hockey version (yes it floats). Sometimes Dustin shivs people underwater and pretends like he's spilled his Hawaiian punch. This facade only lasts as long as it takes the other team to see their teammate sink to the bottom. Usually it's long enough to score and run. Or swim. Either way, it's a ton of good hearted SAFE fun for the family.