Posts: 40,628
Threads: 1,062
Joined: May 2015
I played all kinds of sports for years and never wore a protective cup. I wore a jock strap to keep my stuff tucked away, but never a cup.
I might have done it if I played catcher in baseball, but that is about it.
Posts: 3,267
Threads: 195
Reputation:
16836
Joined: May 2015
Location: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
In football, I never wore a cup. But I was a catcher in little league and junior high baseball and I learned the hard way early on that wearing a cup was essential. But then whenever I came up to bat, I noticed all the girls looking at my package. I still wear a cup today.
Deceitful, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female, Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent.
Posts: 4,199
Threads: 21
Reputation:
26083
Joined: Jun 2015
Never did after I head first slid into home and landed hard on my cup. The pain caused by the rim of the cup pressing the periphery of my junk was real.
Posts: 4,542
Threads: 204
Reputation:
43688
Joined: May 2015
I used one in baseball, but not in football. When I played basketball I just tied it down so it wouldn't hang out my shorts.
Posts: 20,702
Threads: 98
Reputation:
192236
Joined: May 2015
Location: Bluegrass Region
Only wore one when I caught, or played the hot corner....you never know what will happen at third. I never wore one in football, although after a cleating I took at the bottom of a scrum, I seriously contemplated it.
I used the compression shorts, much more comfortable than a jock strap.
"Better send those refunds..."
Posts: 5,606
Threads: 36
Reputation:
36341
Joined: May 2015
Location: Vancouver, WA
I wore one during part of my freshman year in football.
You can always trust an dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to look out for.
"Winning makes believers of us all"-Paul Brown
Posts: 16,395
Threads: 151
Reputation:
61561
Joined: May 2015
in karate yes and maybe football its been a long time and i dont remember but assume i did.
Posts: 4,199
Threads: 21
Reputation:
26083
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 16,395
Threads: 151
Reputation:
61561
Joined: May 2015
Every female athelete past A size lol
Posts: 6,178
Threads: 330
Reputation:
45727
Joined: May 2015
Location: is everything.
I still wear one to this day. My wife likes to target my private area with a kick when I piss her off.
P.S. My cup is extra large, and barely contains it's occupant. Just so you guys....know.
Posts: 4,829
Threads: 107
Reputation:
22659
Joined: May 2015
Location: An undisclosed biological research facility
Played high school football, hockey and lacrosse, and college lacrosse. Got away without one in football, but learned real quick they were essential in hockey and lacrosse. That hard little lacrosse ball does some serious damage when shot around 60-90 mph. One of my best friends was a defenseman in lacrosse and got in front of a shot. Took it directly on one of his balls. The ball swelled up to the size of a large lemon. They debated whether or not to surgically remove it. Ultimately decided to leave it, but my friend was laid up in bed for about a week with that swollen nut. He said it was the most excruciating pain he had ever felt, and it was a continuous throbbing pain for about the first 3 days before subsiding. Always wore me a cup after that.
Posts: 5,844
Threads: 160
Reputation:
20212
Joined: May 2015
Location: Ohio
I wore one, when I played football and street hockey.
I was an offensive/defensive tackle, so I didn't have to run that far.
I also played rather......"emotionally" sooooo... yeah... I got into guys heads and they'd cheap shot me.
I played goalie in street hockey, so the cup was a must.
Now I keep one in my car, with a set of lead filled gloves.
You never know when you're going to get into some nasty business.
Posts: 2,801
Threads: 39
Reputation:
5678
Joined: May 2015
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Only used a cup when I played catcher in baseball. Never used one in football, I hated running in those things, they were a pain.
Formerly known as Judge on the Bengals.com message board.
Posts: 4,199
Threads: 21
Reputation:
26083
Joined: Jun 2015
I forgot. We had to wear cups in peewee football. The trainer would come around and we'd have to knock on it so he could hear it. No cup, no play.
Posts: 16,261
Threads: 415
Reputation:
60132
Joined: May 2015
Location: Shenandoah Valley
(04-29-2016, 01:36 PM)WychesWarrior Wrote: Only wore one when I caught, or played the hot corner....you never know what will happen at third. I never wore one in football, although after a cleating I took at the bottom of a scrum, I seriously contemplated it.
I used the compression shorts, much more comfortable than a jock strap.
Yeah, was about to say that one came in handy playing third. Though I remember in JV one practice where our SS fielded two in a row to the nuts. The coach was just hitting grounders our and they both hit the same spot and took a bounce that took them off course at the last second.
Posts: 16,866
Threads: 70
Reputation:
58889
Joined: May 2015
Location: Richmond, VA
Not what I expected the thread to be.
I figured Fred would post an in-game picture of a retired pro athlete's crotch and we'd have to determine if he was wearing a cup.
Apparently Fred can throw a curve ball...
(I wonder if he was wearing a cup at the time?)
Posts: 13,473
Threads: 504
Joined: May 2015
Location: South Florida
Wore one when I started playing but eventually ditched it. Used a jock still. That was a must.
Posts: 2,089
Threads: 68
Reputation:
10030
Joined: May 2015
Location: Denver
due to the random cup checks in the dugout by teammates, I always wore one.
-The only bengals fan that has never set foot in Cincinnati 1-15-22
Posts: 3,188
Threads: 15
Reputation:
8138
Joined: May 2015
(04-29-2016, 04:42 PM)Tiger Teeth Wrote: P.S. My cup is extra large, and barely contains it's occupant. Just so you guys....know.
You're probably wearing it upside-down. Just so you know.
--------------------------------------------------------
Posts: 3,989
Threads: 44
Reputation:
27912
Joined: May 2015
Location: ¯\(°.o)/¯
I didn't and I played football for 12 years. Probably should have in hindsight. Cups always felt super uncomfortable for me and being primarily an Olineman I wasn't put in many situations where I could take a knee or foot to the nuts.
|