Can Lake Worth's DeAndre Davis get some love?

[JR2004]

Lake Worth had to get wins against Carrollton Ranchview and Ft. Worth Castleberry in order to make the playoffs. It seems like it's barely been noted here what this young man accomplished in those two must-win games for the Bullfrogs.

Ranchview
42 carries
354 yards
4 touchdowns

How could he possibly top that performance? How about this statline from the Castleberry game last Friday night.

46 carries
427 yards
SEVEN TOUCHDOWNS

To recap this is the combined total for Davis from these two must-win games for Lake Worth.

88 carries
781 yards
11 touchdowns

They threw a combined 12 times in these two games. They basically put these two games in the hands of Davis and his offensive line and they produced in a big way.

That folks is mighty, mighty impressive in my opinion. I actually had told Bullfrog_Alumni that I thought Davis might put up three bills against us when we played. (They turned it over 5 times or so against us so they had to play catch-up the whole game. He didn't get a chance at a big night against us and he got the ball just 12 times I believe.)

I wish he played on a team that more folks here paid attention to. That kid is one heck of a running back.

[Gobbla2001]

Lake Worth... isn't that where that white bigfoot thang was?

By the way, I love you DeAndre!

[kepdawg]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
Lake Worth... isn't that where that white bigfoot thang was?

By the way, I love you DeAndre!

White bigfoot thang!?! :confused:

Why do you have to be racist about it!?! :mad:

;)

[3afan]

the folks that matter know all about him ...

[Darren]

Originally posted by JR2004
Can Lake Worth's DeAndre Davis get some love?


Hey his love getting isn't any concern of mine. I wish him luck though.

[BullFrog Dad]

Originally posted by kepdawg
White bigfoot thang!?! :confused:

Why do you have to be racist about it!?! :mad:

;) Bring on the chupacabra!


It was the summer of 1969. Some remember it as the summer of the miracle Mets, Woodstock and the astronauts' first landing on the moon. But in Fort Worth, for many it will forever be the summer of the Lake Worth Monster.

Exactly 30 years ago this week, he/she/it first reared its not-so-pretty goatlike head and captured the imagination of thousands. Monster sightings lasted a week, but the myth, lore and legend continue to this day.

Some said it was a really big bobcat. Others said it was an ape that had been horribly burned in a circus fire. Others said it was the infamous "mud man" who prowled the area for years and deserves his own story.It all happened on Greer Island, a part of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge.

Reporter Jim Marrs broke the story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on July 10. It ran on Page 2 with the headline "Fishy Man-Goat Terrifies Couples Parked at Lake Worth." It made the front page the next day.

"Police, Residents Observe, But Can't Identify Monster," the headline read.

There were more headlines throughout the week: "Witnesses Watch Monster Cavort," "Loch Worth Monster Reportedly Furry, Scaly and "Ghosts Seen on Greer Island."

The monster was described as having a short humanoid body with a long neck. It had the head of a goat or a dog and a horn in the middle of its head. Some said it was a satyr. "Witnesses today said the thing threw an automobile tire and wheel 500 feet," Marrs reported July 11.

In her book "The Lake Worth Monster," author Sallie Ann Clarke recalls a personal close encounter.

"It was not bobcat nor was it a sheep skin. It wasn't a person dressed in a Halloween costume. It was really the terrorizing monster. It stood on its hind feet and ran like a man. It had white hair over most of its body and scales, too. It was a goat-fish-man. I'm sure it stood about six feet and nine inches tall and was undressed (It didn't have any clothes on). It looked like it weighed 250 or 260 pounds," she wrote. "It was the most pathetic sound I have ever heard. It went Grrrrrr, Brrr, Yeeeepe, Yuuuuuuuuuuu, and sounded almost as if it would cry any minute from the great pain it was in."

One boy opined that it was from space. Clarke quoted the boy as saying that the monster "said he was chased down here from the moon by the astronauts, and as he fell through space it became so hot until he caught fire; but it landed in the lake and was saved. Now it is wandering around as puzzled about us as we are about it." It seemed as reasonable as any theory, although it was to be 10 more days before the astronauts would land on the moon. Clarke cited reports of sheep being horribly mangled.

"They had their necks and heads crushed. Their chins were laying in the middle of their backs. It looked like something had just ripped them apart," she wrote.

Nature Center Director Wayne Clark said he's not aware of any recent sightings, but questions about it do arise regularly. "We still have little kids on occasion who say they heard about the Lake Worth Monster or ask, 'Is there a goat man out here?'" he said last week. "I remember when all that was going on. There were a number of old parking lots, and the kids used to throw keg parties. They were a pretty well-behaved group but they would party.

"Then supposedly some creature showed up and started yelling and threw tires like Frisbees. From what I heard, it was a total panic with everybody running into each other and burning rubber to get out of there."

Marrs said in a recent interview that stories floating around the police department said some teenage pranksters at Brewer High School in White Settlement were behind the monster. "They had found an old gorilla suit and wore a clear plastic mask that gave the impression of glowing," he said.

Marrs said it was rumored that the kids had promised to retire their monster to avoid prosecution. "So nothing official ever came of it, and that leaves the Lake Worth Monster free to keep roaming through legend," Marrs said.

Still there was no explanation for the mangled sheep or how a tire could be tossed 500 feet like a Frisbee. Back at the Nature Center, Wayne Clark said there is no proof that the monster doesn't exist. "And we have heard strange noises," he said. Sallie Ann Clarke, at the close of her book, urges caution.

"Is he still running loose? I can assure you if you want to see it or hear about it, take a long quiet ride out around Lake Worth some dark quiet night," she wrote. "Don't go alone. It is too scary out there."

[big daddy russ]

What impresses me most about him is the fact that he's averaging 44 CARRIES PER GAME!!! And we think a guy's carrying the load when he gets 20-25 carries, this guy gets twice as many.

Just out of curiosity, anyone seen him play? Does he take many direct hits or does he manage to avoid them? He obviously makes the most out of every carry, averaging almost 9 yards per.

[VWG]

He and Chris Thompson from FW Castleberry are both workhorse running backs.

[block&tackle]

Originally posted by big daddy russ
What impresses me most about him is the fact that he's averaging 44 CARRIES PER GAME!!! And we think a guy's carrying the load when he gets 20-25 carries, this guy gets twice as many.

Just out of curiosity, anyone seen him play? Does he take many direct hits or does he manage to avoid them? He obviously makes the most out of every carry, averaging almost 9 yards per.
44 times a game is no big deal when you are 6'9"-250, can throw a tire 500 feet, and crush sheep's heads like they were peanut shells.

Wait a sec, maybe I'm confused about this thread.

[Old Tiger]

L L needs love too.

[JR2004]

Originally posted by big daddy russ
What impresses me most about him is the fact that he's averaging 44 CARRIES PER GAME!!! And we think a guy's carrying the load when he gets 20-25 carries, this guy gets twice as many.

Just out of curiosity, anyone seen him play? Does he take many direct hits or does he manage to avoid them? He obviously makes the most out of every carry, averaging almost 9 yards per.

I've seen him against Madison the last two years. Last season he was running straight ahead and looking for contact and had a pretty darn good game. This year the 4 turnovers in the first half limited how much he got the ball against us. He's not a 6'2" 230lbs. beast, but he sure plays like it. Davis doesn't shy away from taking a pounding at all. He's a fun one to watch. Wish he was on a team that was a bit more high profile so more folks could've seen him play.