High School Sports

I showed a couple clips from my high school sports awhile ago, but what I really wanted to find was the only clip I have of me on the news...I think I was on it at least three times but only got a tape of it once. Sadly my copy got eaten by the machine when I went to digitize it...but luck would be on my side and my parents had a copy of it. So everyone can breath easy knowing that you are going to get to see this famous clip.

Also on that same tape was some video taken by my uncle Gerald at a track meet of mine in Bad Axe (I love Pigeon but Bad Axe is a great name for a town). I had a copy of this but it too was consumed by the hungry, hungry VCR at Michigan. The meet certainly wasn't my greatest showing since its clear from what non-competing people are wearing and the flags blowing it was very cold and windy. However, I'm still glad I have some footage of me competing in high jump, discuss, and sprint relays (this much have been junior year because I was slow). I'll share the clip of me clearing 6ft in high jump...it illustrates a few very typical things about when I jumped; (1) I had no form or method on my approach, (2) I often would restart my jump because it didn't "feel" right, (3) I would only restart once and jump no matter what on the second attempt, (4) always missed once or twice at a height, and (5) I usually made it on my third attempt at heights up to 6ft.

Brian and Princess

Well its been awhile since I posted one of the old family home videos, and I know someone has been wanting me to post this one. So enjoy little Brian attempting to bury the dog alive in the driveway...its not as disturbing as it might sound.

The Races

First I have to wish my dad a happy Father's Day...since I haven't gone to bed yet this is still considered Father's Day to me. One of the many things in my life that my dad has always supported, encouraged, and challenged me in is sports. Since sports (and competition in general) is something I really love, I'm extremely grateful for this. Thus in the spirit of Father's Day I shall share more family home "sports" videos.

I'm not exactly sure why this was apparently a recurring thing, but apparently there were races between us siblings. Two famous races were caught on tape. The first between Rey and TC. This is, in my opinion, the best race. I'll give everyone the highlights before they watch it just so you know what to keep your eye out for.

Race I Highlights
1) Video begins apparently half-way thru the race.
2) TC while running manages to throw her candy out of the box.
3) TC realizes this and both Rey and TC pause to try and figure things out...race back on.
4) Rey drops something.
5) TC catches up...pauses...points at Rey and resumes running.
6) Rey realizes she just got passed and takes off for the finish line for the victory.

Now I guess a few years later it was decided that a second race was needed. This time between TC and me. I'm guessing I was really excited about the possibility to compete and be video taped doing it. This race isn't as exciting as the famous Rey vs. TC race, but it has its own moments as well.

Race II Highlights
1) Apparently I felt holding my shirt was a more aerodynamic approach for the race then wearing the shirt.
2) Clearly TC didn't realized that between the races the route had been changed.
3) It was really nice of Rey to keep me cooled down during the race by running behind me and spraying me with water.
4) I may have won the race, but who knows what would have happened had TC ran the correct route right away.

Old Glory Days

In the digitizing of the family videos I've finally got to my sports television debut. At that point in my life baseball was the best sport in my mind and played all the time. I also sported some pretty sweet Tigers wrist bands and a Tigers t-shirt (I believe that shirt is now a rag somewhere). In the video I struggled with the starting pitcher (mom), but when the relief pitcher (dad) came in to the finish the game I had more success.

However in the closing moments of the game a similar play occurred, but this time dad made a heroic effort and got me out at the plate...though I did make a strong case that the tie goes to the runner.

I've also begun work on some of my sports tapes. They are actually in much worse shape then the family home video and probably will lose some of the videos. However today I managed to capture a couple highlights from our big game with Reese my senior year. The video below captures my best offense-to-defense sequence (at least that is on tape).

Also from that same game I was able to get the biggest assist of my basketball "career" (I'm using the term career here very loosely...typically career's result in the making of money). Basically the team we were playing was ranked in the top 5 in the state and we weren't ranked at the time. We had been down by like 10 points with about 5 minutes left in the game before we went on a scoring run. If I recall write at the point of this play we were down by one point and after it we never let Reese score again...oh good memories (I'll choose to forget that this same team later breaks our 17 game winning streak).

Home Videos with Young Brian Talking

First the mystery has to be solved from my last post...no, it wasn't an old man with a cool hat like many have thought. It was actually me when I was a youngster. So now I have to post the video because (1) only to be fair and (2) this video cracks me up more than any other family home video.

As an added bonus I'll finally post video of me talking before my speech had been corrected (I think at this point I could hear properly but still couldn't speak quite right). I actually remember when this was taped and the majority of the conversation I was talking about Odie and how I wanted a stuffed Odie to go with my Garfield.

This is another video from the same day. Renee was basically telling me I had broken something and with a very serious face I attempt to explain what really happened (I'm not sure what my point was but I'm sure in reality it wasn't my fault).

Home Video #1

Well the Wings remain one game away from winning the Stanley Cup. That was pretty much a big time bummer with the way they lost. So to cheer everyone up I'll post the first of what will probably be many family home videos.

Renee (the star), Teresa (the helper), and me (the crying baby).