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Just now, Hoosyadaddy said:

Once saw a minor league(semiprofessional) player fight his coach in a game at Virginia High. Some team from KY. It was something to say the least. 

By fight I mean with fists and helmet. 

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50 minutes ago, NewHampshireRed said:

Ray Jones mooning the fans from big creek was mine. 

My mother in law had Ray in class during her days at Garden High and told us that one time Ray was driving home after practice in a hurry to catch a game on tv. During this time apparently somewhere along the way his wife's car had broken down and she was walking to the nearest house to call someone to come help. In his hurry to get home he drove right passed her and went home to watch the game.

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8 minutes ago, gwave0333 said:

My mother in law had Ray in class during her days at Garden High and told us that one time Ray was driving home after practice in a hurry to catch a game on tv. During this time apparently somewhere along the way his wife's car had broken down and she was walking to the nearest house to call someone to come help. In his hurry to get home he drove right passed her and went home to watch the game.

I've had an opportunity to meet many sports people over the years. Ray was hands down the most unique of all. Guy could design a defense to stop the power I offensives of the day. With that in regard, had the oddest demeanor towards people I'd ever seen. 

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Darned near witnessed a melee at a Graham/Tazewell baseball game in 2002. Tazewell's catcher intentionally tripped our 2-hole hitter as he was running across home plate to score the first run of the game in the Top of the 7th after a single by our 4-hole hitter.  That player's brother was in the on-deck circle, and he charged the catcher with a bat in hand, cocked to swing.  And he would've, had Tazewell's catcher not started running away.  Erstwhile, the 3-hole and 4-hole hitters are flying around the bases while he entire field was staring at the circus unfolding around the backstop.  Both scored uncontested.  I've often wondered how on earth that would be scored.

 

No one was ejected, which is the most surprising part of the whole ordeal.  Neither the catcher nor our 5-hole hitter.

 

The umps did go into "eff you Graham, no way in Hell you're winning mode".  Tazewell wouldn't swing at anything we threw in the Bottom of the 7th, and they were all called balls.  3 walks and an error turned into 3 runs.  We lost 4-3 in 8.

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Here are a few recollections that stand out in my mind:

-In the early 90's, Tom Turner and Appalachia ran the hook and ladder on the last play of the game to beat GC.

-A couple of years later, Lindsey Fisher leveled, and I mean leveled, an Appy Bulldog on a crack back block on a punt return, and Coach Houseright jumped around like a jumping bean on the sidelines.  That's still the hardest hit I ever saw.

-Before you could spike the ball into the ground to stop the clock, Barry Wolfe tried to throw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock, and a Tazewell player stepped in front and made the long pick six.

In the category of really wild:

-In 1983, Colobro's first year at GC, Tazewell was down to GC 7-0 and threatening to score.  Near the goal line, while the Bulldogs were snapping the ball, some fan set off some firecrackers, and Tazewell fumbled on the play.  GC got the ball, took a self-inflicted safety, and won 7-2.

- I didn't see it, but one of my friends who played RB in the '70s told me that he got his leg broke really bad against Graham while he laid in the bottom of the pile, and a G-man broke it by twisting on it.

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The Appy player who was knocked out cold was Sammy Sellers. I was at that Tazewell game, that Colobro took the safety, I believe that knocked Tazewell out of playoffs.

 

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11 hours ago, NewHampshireRed said:

Haha elaborate?

Apparently he thought he was Adrian Peterson and needed to be in. He had fumbled around 4/5 times and coach wouldn't put him in. You could hear him screaming this from the stands. He got into to it with him (fist fight) the refs stopped the game and them and the team broke them apart. After it kinda cooled down a few mins the player charges him with his helment and is stopped by some bigger lineman. It was interesting to say the least. 

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My wife and I went to quite a few PH-Roanoke games when we lived in Roanoke.  Her coworkers son was a four year starter and we are close with the family.  Incidentally, He is the associate AD at VMI right now.

During the final game of the 2000 or 2001 season, a huge brawl broke out on the field between PH and Halifax.  A few dozen police officers on horseback were called in and teargas canisters were dispensed.  It was the most surreal atmosphere I have experienced.  It felt like watching yourself in a civil right video straight out of the 60's.

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Nothing quite as wild as what I've been reading but here are a couple of my favorite ones:

2008 @ Abingdon, Tazewell was down and this was a needed win to keep high seeding for playoffs.  Corner killed the up man fielding the kickoff and Tazewell recovered the fumble.  We score and then on the kickoff the same area was kicked to again.  Two Abingdon players were trying to give each other the ball and neither one wanted it and Corner just comes in and plows both of them for another fumble.

Same year @ Honaker on a saturday game.  Corner (see the common thing here) took a low shot from their QB.  He was heaving and don't know if he hurled or not but everybody in the stands could feel the pain from that one.  Sat a few plays and went back in and absolutely killed the QB on a sack the next play.

 

On the infamous side...same year playoffs against Richlands...the XP attempt...

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Of course I could add the night the lights went out in Tazewell last year against RR.  Halftime down by something like 21 and they decide to continue the game.  RR was sure they could just coast to a win.  The Dogs didn't give up traded scores and scored on 8 consecutive 2 pt conversions and came back to win 69-62 I believe in a record setting shootout on a half lit field.  What makes it even funnier is when we played at RR the previous year the visitor lights went out on us toward the end of the 4th as well!

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As far as team goes:  1994 Narrows @ Fort Chiswell playing for a share of the MED title and playoff berths.  Narrows wins it in the final seconds on a busted flea flicker 26-21 after being down 21-6.  The pitch back went to the fullback (shoulder harness on not allowing him to lift his throwing arm past the 1/2 arm slot) instead of the QB.  He threw it down field like Bernie Kosar to the only man in green he could see.  Turned out to be the TE, who picked up a block or two on the way to the end zone.  

Individual player wise:  Forget the year (within the last 5 or 6 I think) but the game was Narrows @ Bland Co.  Hardest hit of the entire game was a D Lineman from Narrows falling for an altered snap cadence and firing out directly into the chin of the poor Bland lineman in front of him.   Poor kid from Bland knocked out cold.  I remember hearing "Where the hell has that been all year?" from several people very shortly afterward.  

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On a much lighter note, It isn't out of the ordinary to see Oak Hill basketball players at Grayson County football games or it wasn't in the early to mid 90's.  A very good friend and I were home on our first leave from the military.  Paul grew up on a large Grayson County horse farm and has competed in local Rodeo's since he was a small child.  He has always dressed the part but it isn't ornamental.  He is a real life "cowboy". 

We were walking around at the game talking to old friends and former teachers when Paul started getting heckled by the tallest person I had ever seen over the way Paul was dressed.  "Hey, look, it's Garth Brooks"!  "Sing us a song Garth Brooks"!  When that didn't get the response I guess this guy was looking for, he got really vulgar with his heckling. 

Paul, as only Paul could do, walked over and started singing "Much Too Young To Feel This Damned Old".  Everyone within earshot started laughing.  It diffused the situation for a moment but the heckler felt embarrassed by the "redneck" showing him up.  He took a swing at Paul, who completed one of the greatest "Calf Roping" take-downs you have ever seen on Melvin Whitaker.

Absolutely the funniest thing I have ever seen!  A few years later, Whitaker was dismissed from UVA after slicing a football players face up with a box cutter during a pick-up basketball game.

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Never really seen anything wild at a high school football game.  I missed the epic comeback Haysi had at JJ Kelly several years back because I left with a minute to go in regulation.  I almost did the same for the miracle in Wise but decided to stay for whatever reason and witnessed the punt return that caused Emory and Henry to not renew the SWVA bowl.  Not really wild, but amazing was the punt return by Blaine Hackney against Powell Valley.

The wild stuff I have seen happened on the hardwood.  Stephen Niece of JJ Kelly getting heckled by Pound fans when they played Haysi in the Region D tournament and then finally having enough and running into the stands throwing punches Ron Artest style.  Clintwood coach Mike Grear getting tossed very early in a game for shoving a referee.  And more recently, the wife of Ridgeview girls basketball coach Donnie Frazier shouting f-bombs and other profanities at Gate City coach Kelly Houseright and confronting her after the game nearly getting into a fight.

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1 hour ago, sixcat said:

Absolutely the funniest thing I have ever seen!  A few years later, Whitaker was dismissed from UVA after slicing a football players face up with a box cutter during a pick-up basketball game.

He was a massive turd, and just about single-handedly caused the collapse of the Jeff Jones era at UVA.  Jeff was (and is) a great coach, but was a little too wet behind the ears to take over an ACC job.  He took chances on talented players of poor repute, and it burned him.  That, and the affair.

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Sonny Alderman mooning the Tazewell fans (at Tazewell) during a basketball game. Johnny Quintier intentionally hitting 3 straight Tazewell batters (again at Tazewell). I was playing shortstop and he turned around and told me and the second baseman he was going to hit this guy....then the next guy.....then the next guy. He had to be escorted out of the park after the game. And way, way back in the day a Graham-Gary football scrimmage (at Gary) and fans from both teams came onto the field and started fighting. Don't think they ever played again after that.

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