Teddy Bridgewater got a message for other NFL players still tryna be hood
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I think that's potentially an underestimate.
yeah, this sounds like he's talking to somebody specific. Most NFL players come off as a range of squares, but there are some that are still clearly street dudes. Like i know its dudes that be on these teams that fly under the radar. Dudes like Chavarious Ward would openly be out there during a game and when he makes a play he does that sniff and thumbs down gang shyt. Even a dude like Marshawn Lynch is out here doing skittles commercials. A lot dudes that sneak into the NFL and are actually hood eventually still get found out. Them dudes like Tamarick Vanover that was out here drug trafficking.
Bop Gun
Turn Me Loose, We Shall Overcome
Last official gangsta in the 4 major sports was Stacey Augmon. Cats like Morant that
grew up with custom made ball courts in their backyard need to knock off the silly shyt
The sad thing is guys like Morant have the platform to change the negative stereotype around brehs growing up in the suburbs, aka, good communities.
His aggressive playstyle mixed with his small size can dispel the notion about brehs growing up in better environments lacking that edge, aggression to them, and channeling it into whatever endeavors they are chasing.
MVike28
right around the ACC
You’re a goofyHe completely undercuts a good message by adding "but I can really go to my hood and post up unlike the frauds"
Literally still promotes the idea of looking/being validated in the hood which is the problem to begin with
He goes back home he’s not “checking in”
MVike28
right around the ACC
That’s what you took from what he said
nikkas will always bytch and complain
Miss an entire post and dissect a small part of it to shyt on the message brehs
Teddy is known to give back to his neighborhood
What part of what he wrote seeks validation
Chef
Curry already took curr of that.
Lmao right, better make a donation like SJ did to O BlockHe lost me at “I can still go to the hood and post up.”
Nah, you can’t.
Mindfield333
Superstar
Eh. Does he fall under the category? Dude is just from SC. We talk alot of shyt. Also see Josh Norman
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gang.culture is a poison that preys on nikkas lacking intelligence & a sense of self separate from large crowds
honestly cte.ball is full of characters that make perfect gang.members
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murksiderock
Superstar
There's a distinction between "hood" and "street" that is often conflated in all conversations like this...
Alot of athletes are from the hood, so they carry the influences of the hood with them. Then there are some who didn't grow up impoverished, or in an impoverished area, who talk like they had it rough...
Portraying yourself or verbally claiming yourself as "street" heavily implies that you lived a lifestyle of street activities. Which we'd all define as a litany of things from pimping and prostitution to drug dealing and robbing to shooting and killing to a large variety of other activities that street characters partake in...
The overwhelming majority of athletes who make it to the big leagues were not "street" dudes in any respectable capacity----->there are exceptions to every rule in life, so there are exceptions to this one too, but they are few and far between...
Dudes also conflate being "tough" with being "gangster", plenty of legitimately tough guys who have nothing gangster about them...
The nearest example I can speak on is John Wall, who is from where I currently reside (Raleigh). He grew up poor in the hood, so he's a hood dude certainly. Affiliated with gangsters, he's recognized as a Blood, I'm sure he's been around guns and drugs. His name is good in his hood, people know him and respect him...
John Wall was not out here knocking shyt off or terrorizing any blocks. He was a knucklehead, again cats conflate this with meaning tough---->he was a poor kid who grew up with the influences most poor kids have, had issues with authority at school, got in a few fights, broke into some homes, hung with the Bloods...
He was not and is not a street dude...
LeBron also grew up poor, struggled in school, and had friends who grew up like him but doesn't portray himself as "street"....
I'm 33, been over 16 years since I was last in high school. There were hood dudes all over the teams, it's high school. There were a small percentage of high schoolers on the teams who were doing "street shyt". Most the cats doing actual street shyt didn't last on the teams, most the cats actually thugging in school ain't even on the teams really anyway...
Most the dudes on the teams were committed to the hours of practice and training they had to carve their place out, no matter the skill level. Certainly the dudes who got offers to play in college were not thugging it out; again very limited and rare exceptions to this rule...
I started selling drugs in the fall of my 10th grade year, while I was on the football team. Keep in mind, I was suspended off the team for a game a year earlier for doing knucklehead shyt (got in a locker room brawl with a teammate, had multiple detentions for cutting up in class)...
That was knucklehead shyt, it wasn't "street" shyt...
The summer between 9th and 10th, I started hanging outside with the neighborhood "gang", we didn't call ourselves a gang, but we were. Got arrested for the first time in my life about a week outta 9th grade. Had some summertime brawls with kids from other neighborhoods, no gun or knifeplay yet though. School started, I was playing football again, had trouble keeping my spot because I wasn't that good, was "beefing" with dudes from other neighborhoods in school, still had issues with teachers. Wasn't getting any real playing time, home life still fukked up, started drifting...
Met a white boy who put me onto selling weed with him and I pushed football ti the backburner, got kicked outta school in January of my 10th grade year for selling weed on campus...
I'm telling you from personal experience, this was light shyt, and there weren't many guys like me on our squad in 9th and 10th grade. I'm talking maybe 3 or 4 other guys tops who were involving themselves in dealing (Lotta dudes smoked weed) something, or getting in beef off-campus on some neighborhood to neighborhood shyt...
Most these dudes were not on that time---->of course there were other cats in school who were BUT THEY WERE NOT ATHLETES. And even then, it still wasn't a ton of them...
My junior year I moved to another state, tried out for football over the summer. Didn't know anyone, but had several run ins with my new teammates, again an issue that had plagued me going back to 9th grade or so was "getting along with others", which is NOT a "street" thing. Ultimately in a preseason scrimmage, I got in a fight with a guy from another school, igniting a brawl, and when we made it back to the school, the coach dismissed me, told me I wasn't a teammate and had been starting up shyt since I got here...
That hurt me because while I had already been arrested and started dealing previously, I was invested in football. Had no friends, befriended some cats from the neighborhood, and that fall and winter jumped right back into selling weed first, then crack, got arrested for stealing a car, started banging...
The second semester of my junior year I started selling lean too, cutting class more often, plenty of fights, got my first gun...
I'm telling you from experience there weren't many kids like me. My second high school was rougher than my first, so there was certainly a decent amount of guys on that time, but it wasn't "alot". Lotta dudes claimed these high school clicks or gangs, only a small proportion were out here doing what I was doing or worse off-campus...
Lot of us street kids were failed athletes, we didn't have the talent. And as usual, lotta them gifted athletes looked up to us...
Alot of athletes are from the hood, so they carry the influences of the hood with them. Then there are some who didn't grow up impoverished, or in an impoverished area, who talk like they had it rough...
Portraying yourself or verbally claiming yourself as "street" heavily implies that you lived a lifestyle of street activities. Which we'd all define as a litany of things from pimping and prostitution to drug dealing and robbing to shooting and killing to a large variety of other activities that street characters partake in...
The overwhelming majority of athletes who make it to the big leagues were not "street" dudes in any respectable capacity----->there are exceptions to every rule in life, so there are exceptions to this one too, but they are few and far between...
Dudes also conflate being "tough" with being "gangster", plenty of legitimately tough guys who have nothing gangster about them...
The nearest example I can speak on is John Wall, who is from where I currently reside (Raleigh). He grew up poor in the hood, so he's a hood dude certainly. Affiliated with gangsters, he's recognized as a Blood, I'm sure he's been around guns and drugs. His name is good in his hood, people know him and respect him...
John Wall was not out here knocking shyt off or terrorizing any blocks. He was a knucklehead, again cats conflate this with meaning tough---->he was a poor kid who grew up with the influences most poor kids have, had issues with authority at school, got in a few fights, broke into some homes, hung with the Bloods...
He was not and is not a street dude...
LeBron also grew up poor, struggled in school, and had friends who grew up like him but doesn't portray himself as "street"....
I'm 33, been over 16 years since I was last in high school. There were hood dudes all over the teams, it's high school. There were a small percentage of high schoolers on the teams who were doing "street shyt". Most the cats doing actual street shyt didn't last on the teams, most the cats actually thugging in school ain't even on the teams really anyway...
Most the dudes on the teams were committed to the hours of practice and training they had to carve their place out, no matter the skill level. Certainly the dudes who got offers to play in college were not thugging it out; again very limited and rare exceptions to this rule...
I started selling drugs in the fall of my 10th grade year, while I was on the football team. Keep in mind, I was suspended off the team for a game a year earlier for doing knucklehead shyt (got in a locker room brawl with a teammate, had multiple detentions for cutting up in class)...
That was knucklehead shyt, it wasn't "street" shyt...
The summer between 9th and 10th, I started hanging outside with the neighborhood "gang", we didn't call ourselves a gang, but we were. Got arrested for the first time in my life about a week outta 9th grade. Had some summertime brawls with kids from other neighborhoods, no gun or knifeplay yet though. School started, I was playing football again, had trouble keeping my spot because I wasn't that good, was "beefing" with dudes from other neighborhoods in school, still had issues with teachers. Wasn't getting any real playing time, home life still fukked up, started drifting...
Met a white boy who put me onto selling weed with him and I pushed football ti the backburner, got kicked outta school in January of my 10th grade year for selling weed on campus...
I'm telling you from personal experience, this was light shyt, and there weren't many guys like me on our squad in 9th and 10th grade. I'm talking maybe 3 or 4 other guys tops who were involving themselves in dealing (Lotta dudes smoked weed) something, or getting in beef off-campus on some neighborhood to neighborhood shyt...
Most these dudes were not on that time---->of course there were other cats in school who were BUT THEY WERE NOT ATHLETES. And even then, it still wasn't a ton of them...
My junior year I moved to another state, tried out for football over the summer. Didn't know anyone, but had several run ins with my new teammates, again an issue that had plagued me going back to 9th grade or so was "getting along with others", which is NOT a "street" thing. Ultimately in a preseason scrimmage, I got in a fight with a guy from another school, igniting a brawl, and when we made it back to the school, the coach dismissed me, told me I wasn't a teammate and had been starting up shyt since I got here...
That hurt me because while I had already been arrested and started dealing previously, I was invested in football. Had no friends, befriended some cats from the neighborhood, and that fall and winter jumped right back into selling weed first, then crack, got arrested for stealing a car, started banging...
The second semester of my junior year I started selling lean too, cutting class more often, plenty of fights, got my first gun...
I'm telling you from experience there weren't many kids like me. My second high school was rougher than my first, so there was certainly a decent amount of guys on that time, but it wasn't "alot". Lotta dudes claimed these high school clicks or gangs, only a small proportion were out here doing what I was doing or worse off-campus...
Lot of us street kids were failed athletes, we didn't have the talent. And as usual, lotta them gifted athletes looked up to us...
