This video is compiled video footage of Carl Joseph, one of ten children in a one-parent home who had the additional setback of being born with only one leg. He played varsity football in the ’70s and was a standout in track, and now he’s been nominated for the Florida High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
This seems too fantastic to be true — or at least too amazing to have not gotten wider press before this — but I actually emailed the Florida HS Athletic Association, and it seems the nomination, at least, is real. And to that I say, holy crap. I couldn’t play high school football, and I had two legs [Note: I still do]. Mommy always said I was too delicate. And she was right :(
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who had the one-parent, one-leg parlay?
If I were Carl Joseph, I’d have tried to get my teammates to call me “Two-Legged Carl.” That way, when naive cheerleaders asked me why they called a one-legged guy “two-leg,” I could ask them if they wanted to see the other leg. No, just kidding, what I’d really do is say that my teammates were just big-time assholes and let my eyes mist up a little and hope the cheerleader would give me a pity fuck.
Alternately, I would try to get a sex maneuver called the “One-Legged Carl” named after me.
How can you not play high school football, chief??? For fuck’s sake, you could probabyl start for the Seahawks right now.
Bobby Martin says “fuck you Carl Joseph I had no legs bitch”
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Carl Joseph is not afraid to pull a two-legged player down by his facemask.
That’s nothing. Hitler did all that fucking shit with one testicle.
This is an amazing story about overcoming an incredible obstacle. I checked out the comments, expecting to see support for Carl and his accomplishments. Instead, I find jokes about Hitler having only one nut and sexual positions named after Carl. My reaction to that? Not disgust, but pure and utter comfort that I am truly home. I’m surrounded by degenerate retards, but home is where the heart is. Rock on.
Was that the original horse collar tackle? Is he related to Roy Williams?