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Aerosoul
10-02-2005, 08:11 PM
Amazing. :| Talk about heart. There are a few pics, be sure to browse through them on the right side of the page.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/09/27/gallery.martin/content.1.html?cnn=yes
Zarathustra
10-02-2005, 08:13 PM
Must be not really practical. :|
DarkCypher
10-02-2005, 08:15 PM
:|

That's weird.
sucker4gurls
10-02-2005, 08:53 PM
how do you play football with out feet???

if he's good at what he does, i suppose theres no sense in stopping him...
Gauntlet
10-02-2005, 08:59 PM
I think he poses a psychological damage.

Wouldn't a guy using his arms as legs and coming after you freak you out a little?
SuperShot5000
10-02-2005, 09:03 PM
Doesn't he have prosthetics or something? The 2nd string fullback for my team is from Bosnia and has one leg (landmine) but he uses prosthetics and runs pretty fast, just a little cockeyed.
DarkCypher
10-02-2005, 09:03 PM
Not really, I would just jump over him.

How did he lose his legs in the first place? I bet it involves Alcohol...
Gauntlet
10-02-2005, 09:07 PM
Not really, I would just jump over him.

How did he lose his legs in the first place? I bet it involves Alcohol...

Actually he was born with out legs.

Good golly. If you had to use your arms all your life he must bench a huge load!

Edit: I just found out: 215 lbs and he's a senior. I sort of expected more. :|
Aerosoul
10-02-2005, 09:08 PM
Not really, I would just jump over him.

How did he lose his legs in the first place? I bet it involves Alcohol...

why?
Gauntlet
10-02-2005, 09:13 PM
Not really, I would just jump over him.

How did he lose his legs in the first place? I bet it involves Alcohol...

why?

Its because he's black isn't it? You racist Kiwi-f***er!
DarkCypher
10-02-2005, 09:20 PM
Its because he's black isn't it? You racist Kiwi-f***er!

rofl

I'm not racist, but football players like getting caught up in drugs and alcohol.
Aerosoul
10-02-2005, 09:22 PM
bull****. you said it and thought it the second you saw he was black.
[AFSOC]
10-02-2005, 09:22 PM
Not really, I would just jump over him.

How did he lose his legs in the first place? I bet it involves Alcohol...

Actually he was born with out legs.

Good golly. If you had to use your arms all your life he must bench a huge load!

Edit: I just found out: 215 lbs and he's a senior. I sort of expected more. :|

can you bench 215lbs...

i bet he could a hella lot of reps....which is way better
DarkCypher
10-02-2005, 09:25 PM
bull****. you said it and thought it the second you saw he was black.

No, I thought it the second I saw he had no legs. I didn't read all those pages, so I didn’t see that he was born without them.

If you want to call me racist go right ahead, but you have no ****ing clue.
Aerosoul
10-02-2005, 09:29 PM
Racist.
SuperShot5000
10-02-2005, 09:30 PM
Its because he's black isn't it? You racist Kiwi-f***er!

rofl

I'm not racist, but football players like getting caught up in drugs and alcohol.

HAHAHA you're so funny, asshole!

Just cause we can beat the hell out of you doesn't mean were dopeheads. And a real football player plays with integrity and as a family. F*ck you.
Gauntlet
10-02-2005, 09:40 PM
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Not really, I would just jump over him.

How did he lose his legs in the first place? I bet it involves Alcohol...

Actually he was born with out legs.

Good golly. If you had to use your arms all your life he must bench a huge load!

Edit: I just found out: 215 lbs and he's a senior. I sort of expected more. :|

can you bench 215lbs...

i bet he could a hella lot of reps....which is way better

No I can't but I know people my age who can bench 270 (I'm 16) and they have legs too and use them.

But I would imagine that his lifting eduarance is amazing.
buckeyedoc
10-02-2005, 10:02 PM
I am a football official in the Dayton/Cincinnati area and there is much controversy about this very topic among officials. Apparantly, he was able to play the first 3 weeks without any problem. In week 4, the officials quoted a rule in our NFHS rule book that states that all players must have shoes, thigh pads and knee pads. This is a heated debate within our local officials association. I have officiated Colonel White's games in the past, but have not had this young man in a game yet.
Gauntlet
10-02-2005, 10:09 PM
I am a football official in the Dayton/Cincinnati area and there is much controversy about this very topic among officials. Apparantly, he was able to play the first 3 weeks without any problem. In week 4, the officials quoted a rule in our NFHS rule book that states that all players must have shoes, thigh pads and knee pads. This is a heated debate within our local officials association. I have officiated Colonel White's games in the past, but have not had this young man in a game yet.

Well I find that sticking the "no shoes" or "lower pads" rule on this guy is pretty retarded. How can you do that with a guy with no feet?! Its like turning him away from a convience store because he has no shoes.
nerdman
10-02-2005, 10:55 PM
Nick Ackerman won the 2001 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championship at 174 lbs with no legs.


http://www.ncaa.org/news/2001/20010326/active/3807n40.html
Gauntlet
10-02-2005, 11:20 PM
bull****. you said it and thought it the second you saw he was black.

No, I thought it the second I saw he had no legs. I didn't read all those pages, so I didn’t see that he was born without them.

If you want to call me racist go right ahead, but you have no ****ing clue.

http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/3946/kaynewest8ad.jpg
DarkCypher
10-02-2005, 11:22 PM
:roll:

Oh **** off. I am not god damn racist!! :slap:
[AFSOC]
10-03-2005, 02:40 AM
:roll:

Oh f*** off. I am not god damn racist!! :slap:

thats what they all say
<Gypsum Fantastic>
10-03-2005, 04:42 AM
That's stupid. Just kick him in the face, that would soon shut him up.

Imagine this guy playing rugby. :lol:
p$ycho+log!cal
10-03-2005, 07:40 AM
nice! even if he have no legs he play sport and do something he like in life.
CH4RL13
10-03-2005, 10:38 AM
Good golly. If you had to use your arms all your life he must bench a huge load!

Edit: I just found out: 215 lbs and he's a senior. I sort of expected more. :|

Im sure its pretty hard to bench with out any legs. Think about it for a second.

31C
HooyahCQB
10-03-2005, 12:29 PM
Kyle Maynard played Football without legs and arms (he benches a lot as well). He made it to the state wreslting Championship. Helluva kid, i've met him several times. Real nice. He wrestles for UGA now. http://www.kmaynard.com/
HoboWithAK
10-03-2005, 03:44 PM
I can't possibly imagine he could be any good at making a tackle. How fast could he possibly move? I'm extremly skeptical. Any WR, TE or HB/FB could just hurdle over him. Not to mention i'd have nightmares about the guy coming after me on his hands.

OT, I wonder if he was born with genitalia.
<Gypsum Fantastic>
10-03-2005, 03:48 PM
OT, I wonder if he was born with genitalia.

Yes. I just checked.
WarriorMonk
10-03-2005, 04:37 PM
I think he was the guy featured on our local paper, except they covered him (or the person looking like him) doing wrestling...
Aerosoul
10-03-2005, 04:57 PM
I think he was the guy featured on our local paper, except they covered him (or the person looking like him) doing wrestling...

martin wrestled, too. so it probably was him.