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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004148820_rbpharms280.htmlA longer article from last year, but a good read....I only copy the part that made me scratch my head....lol Quote:
Pharms, a 250-pound linebacker from Sacramento, Calif., was a star at the UW. He bench-pressed more than 400 pounds, sported a pit-bull tattoo, and sometimes, during games, locked eyes with an opposing player and proceeded to urinate, the stream darkening his pants. He did this to intimidate. After all, who'd want to go against someone as crazy as that?
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What a nut is right..... peeing his pants to intimidate opposing players?  Is he still in jail?
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It showed alot about Butch Davis and his scouts. Granted it was a 5th round pick but seriously?
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Didn't Mark Scheilef,(I believe he is on the NFL network now) whatever his last name was for the broncos pee himself during games and earned the nickname stinky. Players didn't want to touch him. I guess it would maybe work. Mind games.
My brother the broncos fan told me about him.
How in the world can you fix something...
If you don't know how it's supposed to work?
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A longer article from last year, but a good read....I only copy the part that made me scratch my head....lol
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Pharms, a 250-pound linebacker from Sacramento, Calif., was a star at the UW. He bench-pressed more than 400 pounds, sported a pit-bull tattoo, and sometimes, during games, locked eyes with an opposing player and proceeded to urinate, the stream darkening his pants. He did this to intimidate. After all, who'd want to go against someone as crazy as that?
I gotta try that at work next Monday.
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A longer article from last year, but a good read....I only copy the part that made me scratch my head....lol
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Pharms, a 250-pound linebacker from Sacramento, Calif., was a star at the UW. He bench-pressed more than 400 pounds, sported a pit-bull tattoo, and sometimes, during games, locked eyes with an opposing player and proceeded to urinate, the stream darkening his pants. He did this to intimidate. After all, who'd want to go against someone as crazy as that?
I gotta try that at work next Monday.
If he thinks peeing himself intimidates others, he might be mentally deficient. When I played football, years ago - or if I saw someone today - that peed themselves in front of me, I'd know I had them scared. Scared peeless, so to speak. 
Want to intimidate someone in football? Knock them on their butt. Doesn't have to be a cheap shot, either.
Heck, wanna mess with someone's mind and get them thinking about you instead of the game? I was pretty darn good at it - and no, not all of the things I did were legal, but I only got flagged once in football. In basketball, maybe 2 or 3 fouls called on me for "questionable" things I did.
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I've found the best way to get in someone's head in sports is to give the guy advice that he likely already knows, but will make him think for a second.
For example, in basketball, tell a guy "make sure you keep your elbow in when you shoot." I have yet to have this fail me. The guy could have just hit 20 straight, but now he's going to think for that extra second about his elbow and he'll get out of his rhythm.
Or in football, just give a "don't jump before the snap!" The guy will take an extra split second just to make sure he doesn't.
Or in baseball, I've given the "make sure you keep your elbows in the right position when you swing."
I don't really trash talk, but when I say things like this or even give a guy "man, you're really good at this!", I've had great success in getting him off his game.
I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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I've found the best way to get in someone's head in sports is to give the guy advice that he likely already knows, but will make him think for a second.
That works exceptionally well in golf.. you don't even have to give advice, just drop a question or comment like...
"Have you always taken the club back that far outside?" or "You hit the ball pretty straight considering how far back you're taking the club."
I used to play with one guy a lot and all I had to do was plant some "seeds" in his mind about the course and he would implode... "Is it just me or are the greens really firm today?" He'd hit one shot that bounced off the green and he would be done for the rest of the day griping about the course...
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I always love telling a guy I love how he gets his hands in the slot....he must have worked hard to to get it that way....or...you have a nice low backstroke and smooth follow through on your putts. If we ever play and you start talking about my swing, I will just tell you your swing looks like crap and you might need to worry about your own deal. 
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Or in baseball, I've given the "make sure you keep your elbows in the right position when you swing."
I always stuck with the original "wanna see some naked pictures of your wife/girlfriend"
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I've found the best way to get in someone's head in sports is to give the guy advice that he likely already knows, but will make him think for a second.
For example, in basketball, tell a guy "make sure you keep your elbow in when you shoot." I have yet to have this fail me. The guy could have just hit 20 straight, but now he's going to think for that extra second about his elbow and he'll get out of his rhythm.
Or in football, just give a "don't jump before the snap!" The guy will take an extra split second just to make sure he doesn't.
Or in baseball, I've given the "make sure you keep your elbows in the right position when you swing."
I don't really trash talk, but when I say things like this or even give a guy "man, you're really good at this!", I've had great success in getting him off his game.
that's why you don't see much communication between us goalies and coaches... very little, just simple x and o type stuff...
the best thing you can do for a goalie is to let him figure it out himself. i bet after marc andre fleury had a very very bad game 5 in detroit in the finals, the coaches did nothing in terms of talking or trying to change and just let him find his way. worked for the best.
and that is why you see players protect their goalies from opposing players.
i do believe you can get in certain people's heads...
then there is that group like kobe and lebron, guys like albert pujols, and tom brady. guys that turn that around and use it as motivation.
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Didn't Mark Scheilef,(I believe he is on the NFL network now) whatever his last name was for the broncos pee himself during games and earned the nickname stinky. Players didn't want to touch him. I guess it would maybe work. Mind games.
My brother the broncos fan told me about him.
That is why he has the nick name "Stink"
Concept may sound gross, but at that level, any advantage helps. Truth be told, I used to do all kinds of hand signals, meant nothing, to get my receiver out of his zone. Used to do three stooges sounds too.
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Didn't Mark Scheilef,(I believe he is on the NFL network now) whatever his last name was for the broncos pee himself during games and earned the nickname stinky. Players didn't want to touch him. I guess it would maybe work. Mind games.
My brother the broncos fan told me about him.
That is why he has the nick name "Stink"
Concept may sound gross, but at that level, any advantage helps. Truth be told, I used to do all kinds of hand signals, meant nothing, to get my receiver out of his zone. Used to do three stooges sounds too.
But you never peed on yourself did you? Trust me, pissing yourself doesn't intimidate anyone.
In basketball - I used to cut my thumb nails to a point. Well, one was a point - like an arrow. The other one I'd cut a notch out of - right in the middle.
They both served the purpose. The guy I was guarding was bleeding by the end of the first quarter. In the second q, he was watching for me. The second half? He never did much.
Cheating? Not technically. Poor sportsmanship? Absolutley.
If my guy came across the lane and took a jumper, I'd put one hand up and punch him in the gut with my other hand. Very, very seldom got called for a foul, as everyone was looking at the ball. Plus, I didn't punch like a boxer - just enough to make the guy remember. And they always did.
Heck, ask me about football sometime. Everything I did was legal. Well, for the most part.
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Truth be told, B Ball always seemed way more prohibitive than football. I had to sit out many B ball games because of splits, tape, whatever. Football, as long as I had my mouth piece in, and all my pads on (as far as they could see) all was well. No, I never peed or defecated, but if I thought that would have put me up a notch???? I would have been the mannequin pisse!
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BB more prohibitive? That's why I cut my thumbnails.....heck, just a glancing "blow" would make a guy bleed like a pig. And back then, it wasn't the blood that got to the guys head, it was the fact that he couldn't figure out why he was bleeding.
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Having a good memory helps a lot in basketball, too.
In my rec league, there was one kid who would throw horrendous bounce passes. As a defender, I'd kick my leg out and kick the ball. Play stops, their ball out of bounds.
Well, he must have done that 4 or 5 times in a game. Eventually, he yells "This ain't [freakin'] soccer!" I just laughed out loud and kept doing it.
Well, a few games later, we're playing the kid's team in the playoffs. I am bringing the ball up and I throw a pretty poor bounce pass. What's he do? He sticks his leg out and kicks it.
As I'm going to take the ball out of bounds, I yell "hey! this ain't soccer!"
The kid's face turned about 9 different colors and he said under his breath "someone's about to get punched in the face." I looked him dead in the eyes and laughed as loud as I could. I don't even remember him touching the ball the rest of the game.
I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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Not to rain on everyone's "golden" rain, but I believe the story about Schlereth getting the name "Stink" from peeing his pants was just a big joke. Here's what his Wikipedia entry says: "Mark Schlereth's nickname is "Stink." He discussed the genesis of this nickname on ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning on November 2, 2006. Schlereth said his nickname originated his first season with the Broncos in 1995. He told a story about his sister working in an Eskimo town in Alaska, where people cut the heads off of fish and consider the head a delicacy; these heads are known as Stinkheads. Schlereth was called "Stinkhead" that season, later shortened to "Stink." Schlereth also revealed on this same Mike and Mike appearance that due to the lack of restroom facilities on the sideline, he would often urinate in his game pants (originally saying that was the reason for the "Stink" nickname, although he was joking). Evidence of the nickname "Stinky" exists from Schlereth's pre-Denver days in the commentary on CBS by John Madden during Super Bowl XXVI in January 1992, when Schlereth was playing for the Washington Redskins. Upon Schlereth's introduction to the crowd, Madden stated on air that Schlereth's father "loves it when they call him Stink."" So, he did moisten the jock strap a little, but that wasn't how he got the name. Here's the link.
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