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Go Home Dept. of Painful Teenage Memories

JONATHAN CHAIT FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Dept. of Painful Teenage Memories

BY JONATHAN CHAIT

This eerily resembles my high school football highlight video from 1988:

I even suffered a back injury and (the previous year) a broken finger, two of the least macho injuries you can have.

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Oh, nooooooooooo. This poor guy. But at least he got out and tried for the team. I wouldn't have been caught dead, so I admire that he at least gave it a shot. But oh, this video made my guts ache.

- drdannyu

February 18, 2010 at 5:21pm

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Hilarious - he might as well have been the water boy "that's high quality H2O"

- mcgumbleton

February 19, 2010 at 12:21am

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Did Mike's dad narrate this "highlight" film? Kinda sad. But, as drdan noted, at least he made the team. I never played a down of organized football in my life. I played varsity baseball and boxed. I broke my right hand on some gangbanger's concrete empty skull in a street fight, thus endth the boxing "career".

- MrCookie1

February 19, 2010 at 12:53am

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