Cool: Best Florida High School Football Players, Ever
High School Sports December 14th. 2007, 12:46pm
The stories tend to be a bit sappy, and more subjective than Heisman Trophy voting, but all-time all-state teams can be cool. Especially when the state is Florida, where some of the best high school football is played in the country (it’s no Texas, of course).
A few fun facts you may or may not have known: Ray Lewis ran back six punts/kickoffs for touchdowns in his career, Tim Tebow accumulated the most offensive yards in state history, and Darrell Jackson had a 2,000 yard season receiving as a junior. Quality useless information to have.
Tebow, Culpepper, Emmitt Smith make All-Century team (Sun Sentinel)
PS – Can you believe the Sun-Sentinel put all this effort into a great story and spelled Daunte Culpepper’s name wrong? Also, and this is unrelated, but still important: the tough life of a Dolphins cheerleader.
16 Responses to “Cool: Best Florida High School Football Players, Ever”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Were they working out in their underwear?
December 14th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Thank you for that video, my hangover just got better
December 14th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Ohio and Pennsylvania have great talent as well.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
being from ohio, i always thought high school football was insanely important here. we have an awesome legacy of great high school football players and coaches that is right up there with cali, penn and florida.
then i spent 2 years going to school in texas. no other state comes close.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Those bitches were doing diamond push-ups. That was awesome. Spencer, I remember playing aqainst Woodson in high school. He was mr. basketball his junior year and didn’t even play as a junior because of football. Yes, he posterized me.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
TBL, you find Darrell Jackson’s 2000 yards receiving more astounding than “Neon” Leon Bright’s 141 punts without calling for a fair catch in 5 NFL seasons? Or the fact that Warren Sapp punted in high school?
December 14th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
woodson, woodson…that name sounds familiar. like a great ohio athlete that went to some head-up-their-own-ass university in the same state Flint is in.
one of my best friends played on the same team as nate clements at shaker heights high school. guess the guy was pretty unstoppable back then (big surprise). fun shit.
no personal stories that i can remember. i just played with a bunch of D-1 scrubs in HS. but ohio is no joke when it comes to football, especailly coaches.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
i played against troy smith and ted ginn jr in high school and got dunked on by the king himself, Lebron
i would rank ohio up there
spence096 what you know about ST Eds vs St ig’s or canton vs massilion
those teams put out athletes
but now that i live in FL, i would place FL ahead of TX
December 14th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
the holy war? i know a little about it, growing up in cleveland and going to private schools, i was pretty familiar with iggy’s (im from the east side, thats where all the east side kids went, st. eds was mostly west side kids. funny since theyre like a few miles apart). all those schools kick ass for football, especially Ignatius.
i went to walsh jesuit near akron (lovely 45 minute drive each way…good way to develop a weed habit). we were St. V’s chief rivals (where lebron went) and i got to see him a bunch. he was disgusting in HS. he played a game at our place and the whole crowd was screaming, “go to college.” he just looks at the student section, and pulls up a 3 halfway between the top of the key and the halfcourt line and drains it then just smirks at our side. he had 30/8/8 at halftime.
until you see texas HS football in person, it doesnt compare.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Pat Summerall is the best player on this list.
December 14th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Pat Summerall is the best player on this list.
Don’t forget, he also lettered in whiskey & gin.
December 14th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
what high school, spence and mafia?
December 14th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
walsh jesuit in cuyahoga falls (from shaker heights).
December 14th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
St Ed’s, spence096 went to Walsh jesuit
December 14th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Went to high school in Minnesota, which produces some talent but not on the level of the top dogs. Played with Marion Barber though, he destroyed people our senior year. He probably could have gone pro as a center fielder as well. We lost in the state semi’s to a team led by Joe Mauer.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Lenn – Deion’s NFL stats were good, but i was trying to stick to HS … and the Sapp punting thing has been out there a bunch, I think