Just Curious if anyone knows? Playing in Canada? Europe? Albemarle?

9/18/2006 12:52:51 PM

On a more positive note,

is even possible in the next 10 years to have Mario and Peppers on the Panthers defense at the same time?

9/18/2006 12:59:00 PM

Where ever he is..he's on the sideline with a cast

9/18/2006 1:00:38 PM

i heard he was working as a cameraman, but then he kept dropping the camera

9/18/2006 1:01:36 PM

I read somewhere that he's assistant manager at a bojangle's in albemarle.

9/18/2006 1:04:04 PM

I thought he was the owner of that NC State restaurant. Named a burger after himself and the whole 9 yards.

9/18/2006 1:04:28 PM

^^Im fairly certain thats correct....hes also coaching at Albermarle as well I believe. Hope he isnt teaching these kids how to hold a football. Seriously though, it baffles me that hes not playing SOMEWHERE. So he didnt make the NFL, theres also NFL Europe, the CFL, AFL, AFL2, WIFL and a host of other indoor football leagues. He should be playing somewhere, yet for some reason hes not....maybe players on AFL2 teams dont have access to a hot tub?

9/18/2006 1:09:42 PM

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"Named a burger after himself and the whole 9 yards"

yeah, it was listed under 3rd and 10 selections

9/18/2006 1:10:39 PM

9/18/2006 1:11:04 PM

TA McFumble

9/18/2006 1:18:37 PM

^^

9/18/2006 1:20:04 PM

TA always used to beat the other kids in games of "Hot Potato"

that motherfucker would NEVER end up with it

9/18/2006 1:24:24 PM

I thought he was installing pools in Albemarle

9/18/2006 1:25:34 PM

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" thought he was installing pools tubs in Albemarle"

9/18/2006 1:33:32 PM

KING OF THE TUB

9/18/2006 1:34:20 PM

I thoght of making this exact same thread today after seeing Tony Baker today at taco bell. Memories

9/18/2006 1:52:49 PM

it's tonEy baker. it is the E that gives him the speed.

9/18/2006 1:57:00 PM

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"Seriously though, it baffles me that hes not playing SOMEWHERE. So he didnt make the NFL, theres also NFL Europe, the CFL, AFL, AFL2, WIFL and a host of other indoor football leagues. He should be playing somewhere, yet for some reason hes not....maybe players on AFL2 teams dont have access to a hot tub?"

Seriously.

I don't care what anyone else says, but when he was healthy, he was one of the best running backs i've ever seen.

9/18/2006 2:40:08 PM

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"is even possible in the next 10 years to have Mario and Peppers on the Panthers defense at the same time?"

No way, $$$$$$

[Edited on September 18, 2006 at 2:47 PM. Reason : plus they are both pass rushers, might hurt run D]

9/18/2006 2:46:09 PM

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"I don't care what anyone else says, but when he was healthy, he was one of the best running backs i've ever seen."

I agree. TA was very hard for any defense to stop when he was healthy. He didn't get as much hype as Clarrett (sp?) on the national scene, but he was easily one of the Top 5 backs in the country when he was healthy, and probably the best State has had.

9/18/2006 2:46:37 PM

houston could use him

9/18/2006 3:33:34 PM

I was getting ready to make this thread. Glad I did a search first.

But he seriously isn't playing anywhere?

10/2/2006 3:38:58 PM

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"and probably the best State has had."

not that I, or probably most of the people on this board, ever saw him play, but Ted Brown is apparently by far the greatest running back in NCSU history. set tons of school and ACC records, was an All-American.

I bet Brown never split two defenders like bowling pins the way TA did against georgia tech, though. jeeesus.

10/2/2006 4:32:21 PM

he's probably too much of a liability for nfl europe, cfl, or arena leagues. I doubt any of them could afford his medical bills.


They called me Mr. Glass

10/2/2006 5:07:04 PM

someone told me that he served them at a McDonald's in Albemarle

10/2/2006 9:46:24 PM

somebody's gotta pay the child support from 3 different baby's mamas...and bojangles is just that somebody.

10/2/2006 10:12:03 PM

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"but Ted Brown is apparently by far the greatest running back in NCSU history."

that was before the brothas were running things, so his records dont count

10/2/2006 10:23:47 PM

Is he really working at fucking Bojangles?

10/2/2006 10:28:26 PM

I don't care what anyone says about him fumbling, he was an electric player that got me interested in State football my freshman year, and won 11 games.

10/2/2006 10:49:25 PM

^^yeah he is gonna be a "millionare" just like you from working at a resturant

10/2/2006 10:55:03 PM

He'd be a millionaire of he could franchise the "Bo" west of Texas.

10/2/2006 10:56:20 PM

I don't understand why he doesn't play in the CFL...

socialized medicine!

10/2/2006 10:56:47 PM

^TA did not like playing football.


I've said it before, but I'll re-post. I was in a class with him my freshman year before I changed majors and he was asked by the professor with 3 other football players if they like playing football.


TA spoke up and said hell no. He said he likes playing on saturday, but he hates "working" during the week to prepare for saturday.


Thats why he's not playing in the CFL, and frankly, its probably why he's not playing in the NFL. After that I pretty much thought he was a piece of shit, and I dont really feel bad for anything that he has to deal with now.

[Edited on October 2, 2006 at 11:00 PM. Reason : aha he's too stupid to know his benefits with socialized medicine. ]

10/2/2006 10:59:55 PM

I can't imagine he would think Bojangles is better.

10/2/2006 11:03:09 PM

He's probably selling dope on the side. He had a heated discussion on the prices of different kinds of weed in virginia beach and albemarle with this dude one day during class when we were in groups. He seemed to know his shit.

10/2/2006 11:06:13 PM

^if he doesnt want to play football that's his prerogative. dont have to judge him for it.

10/3/2006 12:03:19 AM

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"Is he really working at fucking Bojangles?"

isnt that just one step below where you are?

10/3/2006 12:06:06 AM

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"^^yeah he is gonna be a "millionare" just like you from working at a resturant "

No, I am gonna be a millionaire when my mom dies. Big difference. I choose to be a manager at Chili's because I like working there, I have a marketing degree from Georgia State and could obviously get a better job, but I don't have to. TA has to work at Bojangles.

10/3/2006 12:14:28 AM

of his first 1800 rushing yards, 800 were after contact

10/3/2006 1:08:19 AM

Albemarle is easy to get the weed....if ya know what I mean.

Sorry guys Ive been drinking.

10/3/2006 1:41:53 AM

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"No, I am gonna be a millionaire when my mom dies."

yeah sure you are, and i bet your girl is already thinking about all that money divided by two

10/3/2006 5:29:49 AM

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"No, I am gonna be a millionaire when my mom dies. Big difference. I choose to be a manager at Chili's because I like working there, I have a marketing degree from Georgia State and could obviously get a better job, but I don't have to. TA has to work at Bojangles."

watch out everybody . . . he's gonna make it big with that badass marketing degree. he's not one of those losers with a psych degree, he's a whole quarter of a step above that.

10/3/2006 7:07:21 AM

hey guys leave him alone, you all know if you were 25 you'd still be mooching off of your parents and working at chili's instead of trying to find a real job in the real world so you could be your own real person. Oh and that you'd be waiting around for your mom to die so you could be a millionaire and brag about it while you sniff a line of coke off of jenna jamisons ass.

10/3/2006 7:33:51 AM

From an article about a year ago in the observer

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"T.A. McLendon does not want to talk. I've been trying to convince him for more than a week, but each time he says no. He finally calls Thursday. He says he doesn't want to talk, but people he respects have told him he should, so he agrees. Let's do it now, over the phone, he says. How about face-to-face, anywhere you want, any time? He suggests the office of Albemarle football coach Baxter Morris, 3:30 p.m. OK if I bring a photographer? Not OK, he says. Now it's Friday, 3:30 was 15 minutes ago, and McLendon is not here. "I'll call him," says Morris. T.A. has been taking care of some (relatives) kids, says Morris, and is on the way. Why the urge to talk to McLendon? His former team, N.C. State, opens the season on national TV tonight, and if he hadn't left school after his junior year, he'd be starting. He hasn't done any interviews since the Atlanta Falcons cut him in late July. And there's this: McLendon has been a legend a long time. A star running back for the Albemarle Bulldogs since ninth grade, he set national and state records and went on to become the ACC rookie of the year at N.C. State in 2002. But his sophomore and junior seasons at N.C. State were inconsistent; he was very good when he was healthy, but he often wasn't healthy. He left school for the NFL after the 2004 season, expecting to be drafted. Although he was not, the Falcons signed McLendon to a free-agent contract, and he practiced with them, through various mini-camps, about 45 times. The Falcons cut him three days into training camp. Green Bay gave him a one-day tryout, but instead kept running back Joey Harris, who spent last season on Carolina's practice squad. At 22, McLendon is unemployed. That's young to be used up. He is not used up in Albemarle. He still is a star. Everybody wants to talk about what a fine young man he is. And into the office, he walks. He wears a Seattle Seahawks T-shirt he picked up at the NFL combine. His dreadlocks are long and, at 5-foot-11 and about 225 pounds, he looks fit. Amid the football coach motif, a white dry-erase chalkboard on one wall, a play written on a piece of pharmaceutical company paper on the floor, McLendon talks. Q. What's it like, not playing? It's hard. I'll see (an NFL exhibition) game and tell myself, man, I could have hit the hole way harder than that, I could have done something way better than that. But I'm not there. I'm just telling myself that because I know what I'm capable of. Q. How do you spend your time? Work out, hang out. Try to stay on the right track. Try to be positive. I have a lot of things going on in my life. I hadn't watched a high school football game forever and I've seen two. I have a daughter. She's 5. She started school (in Raleigh). I'm excited. I want her to be smarter than me, better than me in everything she does. I want her to be a way better athlete, a way better student, a way better person, funnier than me, all that. Q. What's her name? You don't need to know her name. Q. If you could go back, would you have stayed for your senior year at N.C. State? Nope. I made that decision; how am I going to change it? If I stayed, I felt like they wouldn't have gotten some of the running backs they wanted. I did it more for myself but also to do something for recruits. Q. Have you heard from your former coaches and teammates? The players. Q. Coaches? No, they don't call me. I don't think anything bad about them, though. Q. Why did Atlanta cut you? I couldn't tell you. I feel like I was taking all the right steps. Ask them. That's fair. I ask Rich McKay, the president and general manager of the Falcons. What did you like about T.A.? "He is an athletic guy, with good running back skills," says McKay. Why cut him? "His concentration level and attention to detail were not where we wanted it to be," McKay says. Can you offer examples? "Being on time," says McKay. "Working out hard. Doing what's necessary to be a professional." (NFL sources say that although McLendon has a reputation for getting hurt and for lackluster practice habits, his potential is such that he likely will get the opportunity to audition for some team's practice squad.) Q. (to McLendon): Why do you think you weren't drafted? You ask the 32 teams. I guess because they thought I got hurt too much. They've never been to an N.C. State football practice, never been to an N.C. State game. They'll never know, and I'm not going to tell them. Football is a physical sport. I see (NFL) running backs get hurt every day. (He quickly names 11 players, running backs and then receivers, who have been injured.) He continues: Every time I'm on the field I give you all of me, not half, not three-quarters, not 99 percent, whether I'm running the ball or catching it or blocking, and if I'm dead tired, I'm giving it my all. And I'm injury prone? Teams took a chance on (the established injured players) because (the players) showed what they could do. And I showed what I could do, but no one's really taken a chance on me. And it's all good. Because the team that does, I'm going to try to make them believers. Q. Whom would you most like to believe? Well, I love the Carolina Panthers. I'd love to be on their practice squad. Anything they heard negative about me, it's all a rumor. I'm not saying they've heard anything, but if they have. I feel like I'm a pretty stand-up guy, a cool dude, a laid back dude. Q. What do you do for money? That's for me to know and you to find out. Q. Anything you want to tell readers? I appreciate every T.A. McLendon fan for supporting me. And those who are not T.A. McLendon fans, keep hating. Because my day is going to come, and you're going to hate me more.[/i]"

10/3/2006 7:36:19 AM

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"Q. What do you do for money? That's for me to know and you to find out"

this could mean one of two things:

-He's doing something illegal
-He's doing something embarrassing

10/3/2006 8:09:19 AM

is frying chicken and cooking bo berry biscuits embarassing?

10/3/2006 9:17:44 AM

Green Bay offered him a tryout last year but he fell asleep in the airport and missed his flight so they said no thanks.

10/3/2006 10:09:12 AM

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"if he doesnt want to play football that's his prerogative. dont have to judge him for it."

thats the thing.


He wants to play football, but he doesnt want to practice. That wont get you too far.

10/3/2006 10:10:00 AM

^^I LOL'ed

10/3/2006 10:13:47 AM

We talkin' 'bout practice.

10/3/2006 10:31:32 AM