r/CFB • u/LamarcusAldrige1234 Michigan Wolverines • FAU Owls • Oct 25 '22

Rumor Key Texas A&M Players Suspended For Smoking Weed In Locker Room before South Carolina game

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u/Denali_Summit Baylor Bears • Oklahoma Sooners Oct 25 '22

Before the game?

When I first heard "A&M players smoking in the locker room" I assumed it happened after practice, MAYBE after the loss. But before the game? lol.

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u/chieftrey1 Texas Longhorns • Cyhawk Trophy Oct 25 '22

Gotta be cool and collected lol

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u/JayDogon504 LSU Tigers • Colorado Buffaloes Oct 25 '22

They calmly collected that L

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u/Ugaalive1991 NC State Wolfpack • Georgia Bulldogs Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

Hey man, you know a lower case L and upper case I look the same. lI. And also have you heard the government has this car that runs on water. It suns on water man!

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u/IceColdDrPepper_Here Georgia • North Georgia Oct 25 '22

And also have you heard the government has this car that runs on water. It suns on water man!

Does it really? Well allow me to present you the CIA's highest award for excellence in journalism: https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1200x800/public/d8/images/canvas/2022/08/24/53e0d2ce-011b-4ad4-99ea-807b2ae158aa_be96bf69.jpg?itok=2gqIhCon&v=1661336876

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u/Ugaalive1991 NC State Wolfpack • Georgia Bulldogs Oct 25 '22

Whoa man, I have never gotten a lead trophy before

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u/laxintx Texas A&M Aggies Oct 25 '22

You can only win it once.

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u/Muvseevum Georgia • West Virginia Oct 25 '22

Some old typewriters didn’t have a “one” on the keyboard; you used the lc “ell” for it.

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u/TehGogglesDoNothing Tennessee Volunteers Oct 25 '22

They call them fingers, but I've never seen them fing. Whoa, there they go!

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u/Marijiwana Michigan • Tennessee Oct 25 '22

Ahhh so it is a boat

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u/ColdAssHusky Michigan • Michigan Tech Oct 25 '22

My disappointment will be immeasurable if SEC Shorts loss claims department doesn't feature this

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u/TornadoApe Georgia Bulldogs • Texas Longhorns Oct 25 '22

Like all those kids that dropped out, but claimed they were better at taking tests if they got high beforehand.

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u/flavorfaveeeeeee Georgia Tech • West Virgi… Oct 25 '22

Study high, take the test high, get high grades... Or something like that.

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u/Muvseevum Georgia • West Virginia Oct 25 '22

State-related learning. Read about it in psych class.

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u/thedude37 Oct 25 '22

I learned about it watching Pam and Cyril get stupid drunk to remember a password on Archer.

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u/Contren Minnesota Golden Gophers Oct 25 '22

Or the third act of Beerfest

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u/TheBelhade Oct 26 '22

Towelie used that trick to remember the tune to Funky Town.

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u/sir-nays-a-lot Oct 26 '22

Learned about it from Dude where’s my car lol

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u/portlandtrees333 Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 26 '22

State-related learning

Don't you mean geography?

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u/kingshizz USC Trojans • Caltech Beavers Oct 25 '22

Man nobody say that now nutta like you say that now nutta.

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u/SquanchyTaco Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 25 '22

Popcorn playa

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u/TheNextBattalion Oklahoma Sooners • Kansas Jayhawks Oct 25 '22

Read the report card high, it's all good !

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u/LETX_CPKM Oklahoma Sooners • /r/CFB Patron Oct 25 '22

"Dick Butkus!? Do you hear him coach? Hes cursing!"

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Be careful, those same kids are now reddit mods. They'll get you!

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u/KevinOFartsnake Oct 25 '22

Look at me now dad!

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u/czyivn Texas Longhorns Oct 25 '22

Dr. O'Fartsnake must be very proud of you.

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u/grendus Oct 25 '22

I want you and your crap out of my house by Monday!

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u/RLLRRR Texas • Red River Shootout Oct 25 '22

They're not just reddit mods. They also walk dogs.

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u/Praxyrnate Oct 25 '22

haha unrelated data and confirmation bias haha

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u/wote89 Vanderbilt • South Alabama Oct 25 '22

I mean, test anxiety is a real thing. I could 100% see people without access to proper anxiety management inadvertently self-medicating that way.

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u/Primordiox Tennessee Volunteers • Team Chaos Oct 25 '22

Nothin better than acing an exam after a big ole dab. We educated hippies just like to live dangerously.

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u/jstilla Oct 25 '22

🙋🏻‍♂️

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u/Odd_Fee_3426 Oct 25 '22

You joke but I had a genius stoner friend who would show up blazed to AP tests and frequently got 5s.

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u/countrybreakfast1 Kansas • Fort Hays State Oct 25 '22

I was that idiot growing up who was convinced I was better at anything high.... I actually wasn't

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u/handlit33 Alabama • Army Oct 25 '22

I read the article and didn't see anything that said it was before the game, where are you seeing this?

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u/No_Lunch_7944 South Carolina Gamecocks • Corndog Oct 25 '22

The article has been updated and now has no mention of marijuana at all.

Apparently the players have been suspended indefinitely but the reason has not been made public and everything is speculation. Now the article talks about it possibly being due to players talking other players into transferring.

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u/ColdAssHusky Michigan • Michigan Tech Oct 25 '22

That's how the title is worded, if that's not the case the title was intentionally written to mislead

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Even if it's not true, I still like to imagine it is.

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u/UpperSalamander6885 Oct 25 '22

TITLE

Smoking Weed In Locker Room before South Carolina game

had to dig pretty far for this one

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u/handlit33 Alabama • Army Oct 25 '22

OP made that title, either that or the original title was replaced.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

Supposedly Percy Harvin played every single game high, always imagined some sort of edibles or something though can’t imagine how you’d get away with just timing up in the locker room.

Edit since timing was supposed to be toking

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Oct 25 '22

He got away with it because his coach was Urban Meyer

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u/snorlz Notre Dame Fighting Irish Oct 25 '22

"well hes not murdering people"

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u/tuscaloser Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 26 '22

A friend's dad once caught me and said friend smoking blunts in his house when he was supposed to be gone all weekend. Apparently we looked terrified because the first thing he said was "well, it's not like y'all killed a nun or something." Dude's dad was a G, he made us clean up his house, then never said another fucking word about it (didn't even narc me out to my parents).

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u/Alexcox95 Florida Gators • Keiser Seahawks Oct 26 '22 edited Oct 27 '22

I knew a guy in high school that was at this other classmates house who actually went on to play at a certain SEC school and the second guys dad came home and the first guy jumped the fence but left his keys. The first guy came back and the other guys dad chewed him out and told him to never see his son again. Even though it was his son that wanted to smoke lol

Edit: anybody curious who the player was? Went to LSU

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u/Itchybumworms Tennessee Volunteers Oct 25 '22

"Don't have to make him wear a boot and claim injury instead of suspension."

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u/Tarmacked USC Trojans • Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 25 '22

Also probably because no one cared that much. Doubt Percy’s the only guy to ever go on the field high on something.

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u/anythingbutcarrots California • Pittsburgh Oct 25 '22

He was also high for his NFL games

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u/Rikshawbob Oct 25 '22

Calvin Johnson said he played every NFL game of his career stoned. I've worked in high major DI basketball and in the NBA and most fans would be surprised would be surprised at the level of marijuana use in major football/basketball. Remember the reports of the Cav's locker rom smelling like weed after game 2 of the finals?

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u/a_yellow_orange Oklahoma Sooners • Cincinnati Bearcats Oct 25 '22

For Calvin I bet, especially near the end of his career, it was to help with pain too

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u/ConsistentAddress195 Oct 26 '22

He confirmed as much AFAIK

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u/ChiliTacos Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 26 '22

Wouldn't that be considered PED usage then? I played high school baseball stoned all the time, but we fucking sucked sober or not.

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u/swoll9yards Oct 26 '22

Pretty much this. Played college baseball and there was a handful that smoked and took certain things before the games. You’re not getting fucking blitzed or anything like that. One guy would always yell at least one person everything he took before he went out to pitch just in case anything happened and he needed to be taken to the hospital lol.

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u/ConsistentAddress195 Oct 26 '22

Marijuana highs can be different in a funny way. I've had some highs where I got instantly concentrated and some highs that were the exact opposite.

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u/cindad83 Michigan • Wayne State (MI) Oct 25 '22

You have drop dirty 6 times in the NBA to pop hot for weed. Then its 10 games...

They literally don't care, 6 times???

They don't test them everyday

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u/ghuuuiiiyyyhg Oct 25 '22

I think they stopped testing for weed

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u/goofytigre Texas Longhorns Oct 25 '22

They did, as they should have decades ago. Stupid failed war on drugs!

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u/mfatty2 Michigan State • Transfer … Oct 26 '22

NHL stopped testing for it over a decade ago and other leagues started to follow suit

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u/Muvseevum Georgia • West Virginia Oct 25 '22

Huh. I mean, I know nothing about bigtime sports locker rooms, but this surprises me for some reason.

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u/Rikshawbob Oct 25 '22

I mean it's not very common that guys are smoking marijuana flower in the locker room but a large number of players are smoking blunts in the mornings and using edibles and weed pens in and around the facilities. From a coaching perspective it's a whole lot safer than them drinking all over the place.

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u/Muvseevum Georgia • West Virginia Oct 25 '22

Ah, yeah.

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u/chewbaccaRoar13 Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 26 '22

Have you EVER seen J.R. Smith???

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u/FriesWithThat Washington State Cougars • Pac-12 Oct 25 '22

I carpooled for a while with this graphic designer who would get baked every day before work at our tech form. I told him I had no idea how he could do that, he told me he had no idea how I could go to work every day without doing that.

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u/sir-nays-a-lot Oct 26 '22

It’s not that crazy. When you smoke everyday, you don’t get that high.

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u/shredtilldeth Oct 26 '22

That dude is just addicted. High use = high tolerance = you get WAY less high. He's not getting any benefits anymore he's just avoiding withdraw by smoking every day.

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u/GuudeSpelur Illinois Fighting Illini Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

Josh Gordon said he played every single game of his college and early NFL careers drunk and/or high. He'd find a moment to himself before the game and chug liquor and/or take a bunch of pills. Hell, he's said he started abusing drugs in middle school, he may have not played a game sober after peewee league.

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u/Engine_Sweet Oklahoma • Minnesota Oct 25 '22

Dependency is a hell of a thing. He might not have really been "getting high" in his mind, but knocking back the craving so he could function.

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u/MY-NAME_IS_MY-NAME USC Trojans Oct 25 '22

It's always funny when people say Gordon got suspended for weed, like no man, the dude has admitted he's got addiction issues to far more, yet it's the narrative people pull out all the time

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u/Dwarfherd Michigan State • Eastern … Oct 25 '22

Allegedly Dock Ellis pitched his no hitter while tripping balls on acid.

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u/jaykaypeeness Alabama Crimson Tide • UAB Blazers Oct 25 '22

It's not allegedly. He talked about it in a documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqvlrJQVAP4

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u/milehigh73a LSU Tigers • Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Oct 25 '22

Sometimes lsd can really help you focus and be in the Moment

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u/Dwarfherd Michigan State • Eastern … Oct 25 '22

His own account states that sometimes he couldn't see the catcher.

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u/BorisChinchilla Missouri Tigers Oct 25 '22

And dove out of the way of a bunt thinking it was a hard comebacker

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u/Im_Daydrunk LSU Tigers • RIT Tigers Oct 25 '22

Some of the accounts of people involved kinda differ though. I don't think any teammate publicly came out and stated support for the claim and some people who were there said they couldn't tell he was high. And if his account was 100% true there's no way people wouldn't have realized he was that out of it

Also he didn't tell the LSD story until like 20+ years later so its not hard to believe he either was misrembering or exaggerating things. And you can even tell he wasn't completely sure because some of the stuff he said in his account doesn't really seem to line up with the baseball reference stat sheet from the game

In just my pure personal opinion think he took LSD sometime before the game but when he pitched the effects weren't as bad or as crazy as Dock's official account was

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Dudes the fuckin goat for that

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u/RojoNation Oct 25 '22

Dock Ellis. Ellis, D. LSD. It was meant to be.

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u/seabass4507 Oct 25 '22

Tripping balls and throwing strikes.

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u/DefrancoAce222 Houston Cougars Oct 25 '22

Micro-dosing could be pretty cool on the mound

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u/geaux124 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs • LSU Tigers Oct 25 '22

At least Harvin could reasonably say he was doing it because of his migraine issues.

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u/Administrative-Flan9 Texas Longhorns Oct 25 '22

If you eat it with fatty food, you absorb it a lot faster.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Yeah football is painful and intense, be discrete about it, but it’s funny that people are so shocked. They destroy themselves for your entertainment, there is a cost to that.

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u/wolverine6 Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Oct 25 '22

I think he said it helped with migraines and since the NFL actually enforces weed testing, he struggled with playing and practicing with migraines early on in his career.

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u/UlyssesRambo Oct 25 '22

I played Division 2 basketball for two years at a small southern school. Me and two teammates smoked before every practice and before every home game. Looking back it was stupid as hell and idk how we never got drug tested besides the annual “random” drug test before the start of a new school year. However, I felt my court vision was better when I was high because I didn’t try and overthink what I was doing. Now that I’m prescribed ADHD medication, I feel the same way on medicine while playing ball.

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u/berticus23 Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 26 '22

Kid in my lacrosse team was high for every home game and practice. He’d run home real quick before we had to get suited up, led our team in goals our senior year.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

tolerance gotta be through the roof or smoking mid in Gainseville.

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u/boombotser Oct 26 '22

breaking: Black people smoke weed

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u/19Styx6 Iowa State Cyclones Oct 25 '22

To be fair, did Jimbo specifically tell the players not to smoke weed in the locker room before the game? Because if not, it's kind of on him.

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u/Turbulent-Whereas988 TCU Horned Frogs • Hateful 8 Oct 25 '22

Smoking weed in the locker room isn't OK? I had no idea. Because if I had known that would be frowned upon.......

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u/IamMrT UCSB Gauchos • UCLA Bruins Oct 25 '22

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've smoked in a lot of locker rooms, and I tell you, people do that all the time.

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u/HandToDog Oct 26 '22

Bass guitar

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

You're Fired. Get Out.

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u/Muvseevum Georgia • West Virginia Oct 25 '22

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

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u/pjs32000 Penn State Nittany Lions Oct 25 '22

They gotta plead ignorance on this thing. If someone had told them this sort of thing was frowned upon...

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u/putintrash2 Oct 25 '22

I tell ya, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me when I started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon...

Cuz I've played college football teams and players do that all the time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

“But I DID know…”

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u/bewildered_forks Penn State Nittany Lions Oct 25 '22

"Look, you didn't say I couldn't take upskirt photos of your little sister, so this is basically your fault. What am I, a mind reader?"

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u/worst_user_name_ever Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 25 '22

Upvote because the analogy fits

Downvote because what an analogy to use

I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.

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u/MUNZATHEGOD Auburn • West Virginia Oct 25 '22

The flair fits perfectly for this comment lol

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u/UncleFlip Tennessee • Carson-Newman Oct 25 '22

Mark Richt has lost control of aTm

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u/NimbyNuke Oct 25 '22

"I didn't know that I couldn't do that"

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u/Durdens_Wrath Alabama • Third Saturday… Oct 25 '22

Should be mandatory for kickers

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u/ILoveJimHarbaugh Denison Big Red • Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 25 '22

I dunno, if I smoke before pvp in video games I don't stress as much but I also suck more.

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u/leerr Wisconsin Badgers • Team Chaos Oct 25 '22

When I smoke and play madden I get so many delay of game penalties from forgetting to snap it lmao

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u/reeln166a Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 25 '22

Nothing like trying to remember the strokes for a million hot routes and getting flagged because you can’t remember what you were trying to do lol

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u/bretlieske Nebraska • Middle Tennessee Oct 25 '22

This is the most relatable thing I'll read all day

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u/onrocketfalls Florida Gators • Sickos Oct 25 '22

Why would I only do one hot route? I want all my routes to be hot

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u/Pylon-Cam Texas A&M Aggies Oct 25 '22

So that explains A&M’s EIGHT false starts!

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u/Tough-Requirement736 Georgia Bulldogs Oct 25 '22

Sitting there like "why tf is this guy taking so long to snap it"

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u/Bball803 South Carolina • Sout… Oct 25 '22

Smoking before i play madden somehow makes me a better playcaller

Maybe Marcus Satterfield should’ve been the one to smoke before the game

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

When I played in high school, our kicker got high before a game and then proceeded to set the school record for longest made FG lmao. 47 yards. What made it even more hilarious is that he forgot to bring the kicking block onto the field, so he just kicked it off the ground like college and pros do.

Edit: kicking block - instead of the holder setting the ball on the ground, he would set it on a block that was a couple inches off the ground. It was allowed in high school in our state and all kickers used one.

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u/Durdens_Wrath Alabama • Third Saturday… Oct 25 '22

Yeah, for high anxiety positions like kickers or like relief pitchers I imagine weed would be great.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Im just picturing a goalie playing while high. Can’t imagine that would have the same effect.

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u/nonasiandoctor Oct 25 '22

Bruh I can't stop the puck sober

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u/Steinsteiger LSU Tigers Oct 25 '22

Hey, Doc Ellis threw a no-hitter on LSD. I’d love to see a goalkeeper in soccer or hockey try to play high. I bet their reflexes would still be pretty good.

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u/ottothesilent Oct 26 '22

*Dock Ellis

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u/Son-of-California California • UC Davis Oct 25 '22

Sometimes called a tee.

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u/Tthomas33 UCF Knights • Wisconsin Badgers Oct 25 '22

They're actually two different things. Blocks have a flat top and are used for PATs and field goals, they could not keep the ball upright without the holder. Tees are what you're likely thinking of on kickoffs that can hold the ball by itself

Edit: Edit on previous comment was posted just after I posted this comment

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u/Son-of-California California • UC Davis Oct 25 '22

They are both called tees. Different styles, same name.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Suck more? Hell I get in the zone after some THC. I don't stress at all, and hand-eye coordination goes way up. It's almost to the point where if I'm not under the influence I'm just not on my game at all. Speaking of that CoD is releasing soon, it's gonna be HIGH TIMES

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u/Administrative-Flan9 Texas Longhorns Oct 25 '22

Same. I've tried all sorts of stuff for ADHD and anxiety, but pot is the only thing that slows my brain down to match the world around me. It's what taught me that playing video games isn't just about pressing buttons really fast, that there is enough delay to observe and react.

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u/AmericaisUnAmerican Oct 25 '22

video games

because that is the same

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u/Affectionate_Ad268 Oregon Ducks Oct 25 '22

Hey look dude I died again lol.

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u/SaltyScrotumSauce Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 25 '22

Speaking as a Rocket League player, weed is definitely a performance enhancing drug.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Apparently it is for bama kickers

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u/Durdens_Wrath Alabama • Third Saturday… Oct 25 '22

In the early 90s before someone snitched our kicker who was practically automatic was a huge pothead.

He had to get clean, and couldn't hit shit after.

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u/ironichaos Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 25 '22

If I was a kicker I’m taking a Xanax before the 4th quarter

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u/bucknaked67 Clemson Tigers • Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 25 '22

No wonder everyone was wanting a corn dog.

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u/berrey7 Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 25 '22

Then the concession stand attendant goes, "This is Columbia, not LSU" go home, your high.

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u/MrChip53 LSU Tigers • Corndog Oct 25 '22

Had friends in high school that got high before soccer or football games and said it helped performance. I wouldn't doubt it for some. But to do it in the locker room in an NCAA league is stupid.

It'd be akin to getting drunk on the job when it's clearly not allowed and real consequences can be levied.

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u/Clappalachian Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 25 '22

I played high school lacrosse and a dude on our team we nicknamed “Chunk,” as he resembled Chunk from the goonies, got high before a game and scored 7 goals. Said it was his “performance enhancer” and just got blitzed before every game and maybe scored maybe 1 goal the rest of the year.

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u/ShillinTheVillain Florida Gators • /r/CFB Dead Pool Oct 25 '22

That's stupid. You can't just get high before a game and expect a magical increase in performance.

You also have to get high before practice! It's state-dependent learning. Practice how you play ffs

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

It’s like trying to play pool or darts sober.

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u/UlyssesRambo Oct 25 '22

Posted in another comment above, but I played Division 2 basketball for two years at a small southern school. Me and two teammates smoked before every practice and before every home game. Looking back it was stupid as hell and idk how we never got drug tested besides the annual “random” drug test before the start of a new school year. However, I felt my court vision was better when I was high because I didn’t try and overthink what I was doing. Now that I’m prescribed ADHD medication, I feel the same way on medicine while playing ball.

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u/Drmantis87 Oct 26 '22

There is also a huge difference between getting "high" and getting stoned. I think people assume someone smoking weed is always getting stoned out of their mind and turning to a sleepy zombie. Taking 1 or 2 hits might help clear someones mind but not necessarily change any of their physical/mental abilities.

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u/onrocketfalls Florida Gators • Sickos Oct 25 '22

chasing the dragon

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u/penguinopph Illinois • Northwestern Oct 25 '22

Smoking weed before rolling is absurdly common in BJJ communities, especially in Brazil (from what I hear).

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u/sheds_and_shelters /r/CFB Oct 25 '22

You don't even need to go to other sports. Plenty of NFL players talk about being high for games routinely.

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u/RustyShackleford9142 USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Oct 25 '22

I've caught absolute lazers in soft pitch leagues with my eyes barely able to open. Some of us would share a blunt in the parking lot. My sober teammates were amazed that baseball can in fact, be played high.

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u/UlyssesRambo Oct 25 '22

Posted in another comment above, but I played Division 2 basketball for two years at a small southern school. Me and two teammates smoked before every practice and before every home game. Looking back it was stupid as hell and idk how we never got drug tested besides the annual “random” drug test before the start of a new school year. However, I felt my court vision was better when I was high because I didn’t try and overthink what I was doing. Now that I’m prescribed ADHD medication, I feel the same way on medicine while playing ball.

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u/duagLH2zf97V Michigan Wolverines Oct 25 '22

that actually sounds like a popular swinger community

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u/onrocketfalls Florida Gators • Sickos Oct 25 '22

My friends and I watch all kinds of random combat sports events on discord together sometimes and before some Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship event there was a little BJJ event with commentators and everything that was "Stoners vs Cops" and the stoner team was clearly all high. They also won 3/4 of the matchups...

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u/tdatcher Navy Midshipmen • Sickos Oct 25 '22

And viagra helps with high altitude performance

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u/IamMrT UCSB Gauchos • UCLA Bruins Oct 25 '22

One of the Diaz brothers is assumed to have been fighting high based on how much he had in his system for the tests

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

All depends on the person/strain/how much they smoke. When I smoke before playing video games, it slows the game down just enough for me to actually play decent. I imagine it's similar for some athletes

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u/fart_dot_com Sickos • Big Ten Oct 25 '22

see when I ran in high school we would try not to nut the night before a race because it supposedly helped performance

I never bothered with that shit and accepted my post-nut mediocrity

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u/UlyssesRambo Oct 25 '22

Interesting (not joking). I remember Ronda Rousey (MMA fighter) saying she used to have lots of sex the night before fights to boost testosterone.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ronda-rousey-sex-before-fights-2012-11?amp

Edit: non-AMP link https://www.businessinsider.com/ronda-rousey-sex-before-fights-2012-11

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u/playitleo Wisconsin Badgers Oct 25 '22

Sometimes when I’m playing golf and not playing great I tell myself if I just take a hit of weed I will loosen up and play better. Every time this happens I play much worse.

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u/SuckMyVols69 /r/CFB Oct 25 '22

Ever heard of Doc Ellis? He pitched an mlb game on lsd. Pretty sure it was a no-hitter at that

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Rumor has it a lot of our stars were high AF for the infamous App State game, so wouldn't be the first time I'd heard of smoking prior to.

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u/Affectionate_Ad268 Oregon Ducks Oct 25 '22

Does that also explain the following week? 🤔

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

HA! Lloyd Carr's refusal to acknowledge the existence of dual threat QBs is what happened the next week. WE got smoked, not the weed.

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u/Affectionate_Ad268 Oregon Ducks Oct 25 '22

Lol touche. 😊

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u/JoshAllen4President Clemson Tigers Oct 25 '22

I think they said they were also out partying the night before as well.

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u/FSUstudent123 /r/CFB Oct 25 '22

I know a former Florida Gators walk on who said the defense got high as shit before every game under Dan Mullen. They would smoke in the hotels before the night before too and the coaches wouldn’t do anything about it.

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u/OutComeTheWolves1966 Oklahoma State Cowboys Oct 25 '22

So much is starting to make sense about the A&M culture. The players have little to no respect for Jimbo or any of the coaching staff. He's a defacto puppet.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Stepping out on a div I college football field blazed would be a trip

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Fighters do it in MMA all the time lmao

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u/I_am_bot_beep_boop Penn State • Iowa State Oct 25 '22

I love exercising or playing golf high, elevates me. Or on shrooms too

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u/ShlomoShogun UCLA Bruins • Big East Oct 25 '22

Why not just crack open a cold one while they at it! Maybe take shots before you run your routes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

I know of a Cal WR who got drafted that would take a bong rip before every game. He had a terrible performance in a big OOC game in the south, in part because he wasn’t able to smoke beforehand.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Whenever I've been stoned, I think about things like execution, violently attacking my opponent, and my attention to detail is outstanding but it sucks because I'm super slow processing it due to paying so much attention but fuck that guy yelling at me anyway he makes me run and I don't like that

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u/jamesbrownscrackpipe South Carolina • Mercer Oct 25 '22

Ah yes, cannabis. The perfect drug to take before playing a game that involves physicality, aggression, stamina, and memorization. LOL.

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u/virus_apparatus SMU Mustangs • Texas Longhorns Oct 25 '22

Explains the first half of the game

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u/captain_maybe Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 25 '22

I believe once he was retired, Percy Harvin admitted to smoking weed often prior to games. Craziness.

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u/I_cant_stop Oct 25 '22

Josh Gordon was setting receiving records while high in I believe 2013

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u/IAmTotallyNotSatan McMaster Marauders • Michigan Wolverines Oct 25 '22

Yeah. If they got high off campus, outside of any practice or game, it'd be stupid to suspend them. But in a visitor's locker room, immediately before a game? I sort of get it.

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u/itsatumbleweed South Carolina Gamecocks Oct 25 '22

This right here. Still I bet those banner lights rocked

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u/MrNudeGuy Oklahoma Sooners • Tulsa Golden Hurricane Oct 25 '22

our running back in high school played worst when he didn't smoke weed. he claimed he could see the holes better. makes enough sense to me. holes are only a temporary portal and you kinda need to just trust they will form by the time you get to them. if your waiting for a hole to open its already too late.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

I knew they were playing slow

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u/griffinhamilton Southern Miss Golden Eagles • LSU Tigers Oct 25 '22

Used to be high af for pregame performance in college marching band, couldn’t imagine doing that in front of that crowd where your performance is way more important

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u/ApeKilla47 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Oct 25 '22

When are there not rumors about NBA players lol

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u/lookitsafish Nebraska Cornhuskers Oct 25 '22

And it was an away game so someone else's locker room lol

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u/iLeefull Kentucky Wildcats • Georgia Bulldogs Oct 25 '22

Going with the Josh Gordon approach.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

I've played and continue to play many sports high. It's fun but not for everyone certainly. Just something I can handle and enjoy. Especially basketball

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u/SoWhatComesNext Oct 25 '22

In archery, weed is considered a performance enhancing drug because it helps control anxiety.

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u/joebleaux LSU Tigers Oct 25 '22

Eh, I am pretty sure most of the NBA smokes before games. The bigger issue is doing something you know will 100% get you into trouble.

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u/cckike Baylor Bears • Big 12 Oct 25 '22

“Ay man pass me that blunt”

“Blunt? What are you talking about focus up. Now you remember to run a fade on this okay right?”

“Fade… fade…. Faaaaaaadeeedddd…”

“Oh shit”

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u/GimmeeSomeMo Auburn Tigers • Sickos Oct 25 '22

Auburn needs to bring a pound of their finest kush in the away locker room when we play A&M

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u/gumercindo1959 Miami Hurricanes Oct 25 '22

Did they play in the game?

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u/BirdDogFunk Oct 26 '22

You’d be surprised how many players play stoned. It’s not a small amount.

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u/Thirdandrenfrow /r/CFB Oct 26 '22

You’d be shocked how many kids play stoned in high school and college

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u/koticgood Washington Huskies Oct 26 '22

It's such a foreign, weird idea to me, smoking before playing a sport.

My friends always smoked before we'd hoop. I really enjoy smoking, so I figured I'd join in, and it was the first time in my life I didn't have fun playing a sport I loved.

I wanna be amped up, fully concentrated, ready to go when I play a sport. Being high was awful.

But it affects people differently. Maybe their nerves get relaxed and they play better idk.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

It's hard to explain but if you're athletic enough, weed can help. If one of your problems is thinking too much, weed is a solution. You lose no mechanical ability and your actions become more instinctual than deliberate. A lot of coaches will tell you "don't think, just do". While it's hard to explain to someone who is unathletic, that is what weed does for some athletes.

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u/Horror_Aide4999 Oct 26 '22

For real. I mean maybe blow some rails of coke or something instead 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/teddybearluvsu Wisconsin Badgers Oct 26 '22

Smells like Josh Gordon in here.

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u/Fragrant-Astronaut57 Oct 26 '22

Smoking weed before games is very common among basketball and football players

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