Anybody here ever actually run the 40?
 

Curious to see if we have any other athletes out here.

I don't have a stopwatch. Maybe I should see if one of my friends does and get some jackass to time me.

What's your 40 time?

4.19

Nice. Where were you drafted?

That was his 10 yard split.

4.6 but that was 8 years ago.

New York City

That is really cool. Tell me about it. I'm interested.

We ran 40's to practice for 60's (indoor track), it was good training for getting out of the blocks quick. I have no clue what my times were, that was 35 years ago. I remember the short guys always did the best.

I thought it was his penis length.
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Best I ever did was a 4.7 as a 235lb FB.

I did once but it was on asphalt and I was in basketball shoes. I don't remember what it was. Terrible.

everyone is going to have inflated numbers

it's like getting listed at 6'5" in high school basketball when you're 6'2"

high school football coaches gave out 4.5's like candy at my school...there were some 4.4's, too

and we had no black people...

and no one was running faster than a 4.7, 4.75 tops

I bet.

I bet it was more like a 5.0

I typically ran 4.9-5.1 if that makes you feel any better. And it was only once. I never touched 4.7 again. Hell, never got a 4.8

I had probably taken a huge dump just before the run... thats good for like 15 pounds right there.

BEAST

We still talking penis size?

How could you do that when you can't even grow a beard?

electronic 4.9 Nebraska indoor track facility's 1986

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It pretty cool when you click all the Hiyos in a row. It's a heavenly chord in the key of Ed.

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Instead they should glorify being a bus boy like you right?

I dont know...how much can you bench brah?

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4.55 -4.64 consistently at 155 lbs about 15 years ago. Around 5.5 at 230 lbs now.

Yeah, in high school.

Best time was 4.6 (stop watch) but I generally ran 4.7.

One of the guys ran a 4.5 and later played at Coffeyville, but then again, many of the guys I played with in high school went on to play college ball (some at the D-I level).

With that said, it was 27 years ago and athletes then don't look like athletes now.

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Drank more 40s than I ran

At the next chiefsplanet bash someone should definitely bring a stopwatch.

I think it was 5 flat, but that was on the crappy practice field in cleats.

What?

We always ran indoors on a flat concrete surface, usually barefoot.

What coach would time their players on a sloppy, muddy field in cleats?

It'll be epic.

And a defribillator.

This on both accounts.

I did speed training @ Maryville the summer before my senior year. I ran a low 4.6 before we trained, but never got my "after" 40 times because I went on vacation to fish in MN. I am sure I got faster in straight line speed, but the biggest difference was made in agility.

If any of you have kids in sports and have the opportunity and ability to send them to one of these programs you should do it. They last 3 months through the summer typically -- I think 2 or 3 times a week, I don't remember anymore. Not real fun while you are running on the giant treadmill going 15 mph at 15 degree inclines for several minutes at a time (my friend reminded me of this via text). There are some more interesting plyo stuff or rubber bands. The 4 square was kind of fun, especially on one foot.

For me to "graduate" I had to run 20 mph, 0 degree incline, for 6 seconds.

I was 6'2" and roughly 180lbs then (ten pounds lighter now).

Guys that were way behind the times for 1996.

We also ran 2 at a time. I guess to get practice over with quicker.

JFC, no offense but that sounds ridiculously reeruned.

Ran a 4.29 my junior year in college. With my height and weight, now way it went past "Wow, that was awesome!" Perhaps now, I could have been drafted in the second round as a WR/RB......:LOL:

I ran (3) 4.65's on the field with cleats, but could never break 4.7 on the track or in the gym.

It must have been 20 year ago now, but one 4th of July the whole family was over at my folk's house. We had been eating all day and had a few drinks -- nothing crazy but a few. And it's about 90+ degrees out as usual for that time of year in KC. My brother and I start jawing at each other and decided to race around the house -- 3 times. Well we finished that activity and moved on to the heat stroke activity. We both just laid on the family room floor for the duration of the evening. Everyone else went to go watch fireworks.

Ran track and XC in college and ran a 4.7 at an all team pentathalon event we had. It was middle of the road, meaning the only people I was faster than were the shot putters. I whooped ass that same day in the 1000 meters though with a 2:26 (3rd Fastest).

I ran a 4.8 as a Sophomore in HS. I'm proud of that 4.8....Although I was faster as a Junior and Senior, but I didn't run the 40 those years....So I was probably in the 4.6 range during those last 2 years.

so you ran faster than every freak athlete other than 4 since 2000???

god damn people are dumb

heh, I dont know if many people actually KNOW just how fast a 4.4 40 time really is.

I'll put it this way....the fastest track guy/WR on my old HS's football team (actually he was allstate in both sports) ran like a low 4.5.

and I can almost guarantee he's waaay faster than anyone that's ever posted here on CP.

I don't think any of you reeruns realize how fast a 4.6 is...

you guys are just like my friend...who IS ONE OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED RUSHERS IN IHSA FOOTBALL HISTORY...

he was 5'10 200...he maxed bench 350 lbs as a senior...and he was an absolute BEAST...he was recently named to the all-decade team for football (graduated in 2003)...currently one of my roommates

according to him he ran a 4.5 in high school...and I know that's not true as he's been my best friend since we were 12 years old...

it's just high school stopwatch bullshit

no way that guy was as fast as LARRY JOHNSON...

maybe a 4.75...maybe

and he was a fast mother ****er

the fastest guy I know...he is an athletic specimen...and always has been...is way more honest...and he said the fastest 40 he ever ran was a 4.65 and he also graduated high school with me and he was easily the fastest guy in our school...and he did this at an acceleration clinic with actual equipment to measure a 40...

not high school football coaches trying to pump a false sense of "big dick" into their players...

shit our coach was timing white kids at 4.3

lmao

and you know what's funny

here will come a bunch of guys who were "easily in the 1000 lb. club" in high school...and blah blah blah...and blah blah blah

you're all full of shit

the kid I described above was a freak...he's a chubby mister now...but when he was throwing up twice his body weight in bench and running a 4.7 while beasting the shit out of opposing football teams playing FB and gaining 8 YPC...all while being diabetic...it was insane

and I'll never have any sympathy or be impressed by Jay Cutler for managing his diabetes and being a football player...it isn't hard...this kid got diagnosed when he was 12 and after he figured out how to handle it no one would ever have even known he had it...all he did was drink more Gatorade...

I laughed my ass off when the sideline reporters would be like "and Cutler has to prick his finger 3 times a quarter to make sure his blood sugar is right!" like he was some sort of hero!

this kid drank like a fish, ate whatever he wanted, downed Mountain Dew...and managed to put up one of the best careers for a running back in Illinois high school football...

We had a white guy by the name of Zwiggi or something who played football for our school. Rumor got around that he ran a 4.2 40. They even wrote a article about his draft prospects. I knew it was complete bullshit, but the poor kid put up his own website with highlight reels and timed 40s. Pro day comes around and he runs a 4.5. New article comes out talking about the wind and poor field conditions.

sounds like my high school

every year we had 4 or 5 white kids timed at 4.3 or better

it was hysterical

the kid I was talking about who was a total beast still thinks he was running 4.4's and that a 4.5 isn't fast

4.5 is lightning fast

and that kid was running 4.8's (which is also pretty damn fast for an amateur athlete)

but yeah yeah yeah ChiefsPlanet...you were all running legit 4.6's in high school on your coaches watches

Ran 4.5 consistently(electronically timed) and timed once at 4.45. At one time I was "true white lightening" at 5'10" and 210.

ROFL yea i'm sure white kids in backwoods Illinois run 4.3. Seriously dude you are so full of shit

Not possible. Everybody on this site is slow and unathletic and sits on their asses all day everyday of their lives. Hootie tells me so.

15.5

ROFLROFL

try and ****ing read for once you dipshit

I know you're dumb.

I do.

but try and read

well if he was 5'10" 210 and was running 4.45 he must be an unathletic pussy since he didn't parlay that into any sort of athletic career

he has NFL size and speed...

what college did he go to for track? for football?

I read what you said I was just giving you the response you give others dipshit.

Actually, you're full of shit. At my high school, there was a "Wall of Fame" for 1,000 pound club members and that was 27 years ago.

I witnessed several guys "make" the 1,000 pound club. They had to squat, bench and dead-lift in less than 60 minutes in order to make the club.

I never made it. I had an injury my senior year that kept me out of lifting for almost three months. On the last day of school, I could only hit 935 pounds.

But considering I only weighed 170 at graduation, that was pretty good. And before you call "bullshit", not only do I have hundreds of classmates that will support my claim, but pics as well.

You're sheltered, Hootie.

well if you tried reading the thread you'd realize I was mocking our ****ing school/coaches for telling kids they were running 4.3's when they weren't running any better than 4.7 or 4.8

but you're a dipshit so I wouldn't expect you to have any reading comprehension skills

That size and speed doesn't necessarily parlay itself into vision or football IQ.

what the **** are you talking about?

I never disagreed about that...

we had a fair share of guys make the 1000 lb. club. They were all freakishly strong, though...

and it is quite the feat

but you missed my point...

I bet 9/10 guys on ChiefsPlanet made that 1000 lb. club

that was the point, Dane

you ****ing nimrod

LMAO

Now that's comedy gold.

And BTW, that was NOT your point.

Clearly.

he must have been the "true white lightning" reerun

Yes and I was mocking you dipshit.

Straight line speed does not equate to vision or football IQ.

Historically, track stars have rarely had success in the NFL.

how was that not my point?

JFC, how was it your point? There's 30 ****ing sentences not formatted into a single thought.

Who knows what the **** you're blabbering about except you?

I'm talking about a 17 year old kid who was an all-decade IHSA running back...stats comparable to Mike Alstott...who was FREAKISHLY strong and somehow thought he was running 4.45 40s because of our high school coaches and their stopwatch politics...

my baseball team in high school was stacked...we were awesome...we faced a guy named Ryan Bird who was rumored to have a "102 MPH" fastball...the newspaper reported it and everything...he was rumored to get a 60% scholarship to a big 10 school (which is unheard of for baseball players)...

we faced him....dude probably didn't even hit 90 on the gun and we torched him...he lasted less than 2 innings...it was hysterical

I don't think people realize how rare 4.5 speed is yet 10 people on CP ran 4.5's or 4.6's etc. etc. etc.

yeah ****ing right

I'm going to put this mildly:

You grew up as a rube in a small town.

Let's put it this way, Hootie: The football coach that I trained under as a kid beginning at age 13 was not only a ****ing stud that would coach his teams to state championships, but he's still at the top of his game as one of the best (Top 20) football coaches in America.

There was no "horseshit" going on. Many of the guys I went to school with went on to play and start immediately at MAJOR universities across the nation.

top 20 coach in America?!??

hahahahaha

ok Dane

High school football? Hell yeah.

I think that most of the people that live in KC know EXACTLY who I'm talking about.

JFC, you're truly a reeruned hillbilly dumb****.

Dane ran a 4.4 in high school...which was nothing compared to his 35 other teammates all in the 4.3's

****ing idiots

4.65 is lighting fast and is rare ****ing air

when I lived in Lenexa and OP growing up (until I was 12) I went to school with ZERO black people...and I went to big school districts

when I moved to Illinois...again...ZERO black people

so yeah...you're right...I didn't see a ton of speed...but I know 95% of this board is white

so I know there isn't a whole lot of 4.5 speed around here

just watch the ****ing combine...

yeah there are a few white people who crack 4.5...but not a lot

cracking 4.5 as a white guy is RARE AS HELL

it is about race

white people aren't as fast as black people

well sorry...

I thought you meant coaches in general.

Wow, you must be truly butthurt because I never said that, Dipshit.

this board is 95% white

I'm pretty sure Dane is white...

Dane if you had tons of black teammates than I will agree that perhaps you did see a ton of freak athletes...

but where I grew up in Kansas...and where I grew up in Illinois...

it was white, white, white (just like this board)...and 4.5 basically didn't exist

1 out of 1000

Sure.

And I guess our school didn't play against and beat Rodney Peete's school, either.

But I forget: He's a white guy.

but I'm sure pr_capone is as big and as fast as Tim Tebow

Talk about reverse discrimination although really when you think about it there is no such thing as reverse discrimination. Discrimination is discrimination, PERIOD.

I had several football scholarships to mostly DII and DIII schools and one DI but everyone of them said, kid you not, "although you run the ball well we already have our "thoroughbreds" in the backfield we need help in the secondary."

So I played baseball instead. Was a pitcher:thumb:

Well, you're wrong. I had teammates that played in the SEC, Big 8, Southwest Conference, the major Junior Colleges (Coffeyville & Butler, both whom feed D-I schools, the NFL and won Juco National championships, etc.).

And again, you missed my statement earlier: Guys 27 years ago are NOTHING like the guys coming out of school today. NOTHING.

I'd bet that during my three years out of school, maybe ONE, instead of 50, would be offered scholarships today.

It's a different world today. But that doesn't mean that guys weren't gifted athletically.

Dane went to Rockhurst

Nope, but you're right on about the coach.