# What position would you like to play in your favorite team sports? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 20, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036 "2011-02-20T19:13:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/1 "2011-02-20T19:13:15Z")
Ice Hockey: I’d want to be a goaltender. Baseball: 3rd base. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/2 "2011-02-20T19:34:03Z")
Goalie definitely. I don’t think I’d ever be any good but it looks like a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![PlanetCharlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@PlanetCharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanetCharlie)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/3 "2011-02-20T19:43:50Z")
Baseball: catcher Basketball: power forward Hockey: there’s positions? Football: cornerback Curling: guy with broom ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/4 "2011-02-20T20:02:07Z")
Football: Cornerback Soccer: Defensive midfielder ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/5 "2011-02-20T20:03:25Z")
In American football, I’d want to be a nose tackle. In soccer, goaltender. In basketball, center. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/6 "2011-02-20T20:41:42Z")
Soccer: Left midfielder Rugby: Scrum-half NFL: Tight end Baseball: 2nd base ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/7 "2011-02-21T02:34:42Z")
Am. football, punter or kicker only (I don’t relish the aches and pains from a regular position). Hockey, defenseman with a nasty slap shot and deft passing touch. Baseball, third base (with training I’m sure I could have gotten my 65 MPH arm up over 80) But in temperament I’d be better off in an individual sport (auto racing or golf). ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/8 "2011-02-21T02:57:36Z")
Baseball: second base or shortstop Am. football: pass rusher (assuming I had the body for it of course) ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/9 "2011-02-21T03:15:40Z")
American football - receiver ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/10 "2011-02-21T03:23:51Z")
Shortstop. A good shortstop is a beautiful thing. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/11 "2011-02-21T03:53:43Z")
Baseball - Shortstop or Pitcher Football - Quarterback Hockey - Right Wing ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/12 "2011-02-21T04:12:39Z")
My favorite team is an NFL franchise. And if I had to play a position on that team? Hm… Well, I’m a skinny Jewish guy who has never played a day of football in his life. I would probably snap like a dry twig if I were tackled. So I’m going to go with punter. The other team would get penalized for hitting me (in most circumstances), I wouldn’t have the pressure that is put on the kicker, and occasionally, I could throw my body at the legs of the return man, and suddenly I’m the hero who was able to stop him when 10 other (three hundred pound) guys couldn’t. Yeah, I wouldn’t get the money or glory of a QB or defensive back, but at least when I retire at the age of 53, I wouldn’t have chronic encephalopathy. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/13 "2011-02-21T04:29:37Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > Well, I’m a skinny Jewish guy who has never played a day of football in his life. I would probably snap like a dry twig if I were tackled. [slight hijack] I may start another thread about this particular thing, but while I’m thinking about it, why on earth is it relevant _at all_ that you are Jewish? Who cares if you are Jewish? [/slight hijack] \ > [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > Yeah, I wouldn’t get the money or glory of a QB or defensive back, but at least when I retire at the age of 53, I wouldn’t have chronic encephalopathy. You’d still be jewish. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PlanetCharlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@PlanetCharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanetCharlie)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/14 "2011-02-21T04:38:12Z")
Outside of Sandy Koufax, name one decent Jewish athlete. Exactly. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/15 "2011-02-21T04:48:55Z")
Ice hockey-right wing ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/16 "2011-02-21T04:50:45Z")
In my fantasies – begun in childhood and never quite given up on – I have always been a left fielder for the Dodgers. Sadly, in real life, while I still have some speed and catching ability and can even scale a wall decently at my age and weight, I’ve never been able to throw for any distance without making it a rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/17 "2011-02-21T04:58:27Z")
My first though was center fielder. When you think of graceful players, you usually think of center fielders like Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio. But then I decided I’d rather be a third baseman. There’s something just cool looking about charging a bunt or making a backhanded stab. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/18 "2011-02-21T05:00:42Z")
Second base. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/19 "2011-02-21T06:19:56Z")
Football, obviously – there aren’t any other sports: Assuming there was some body-morphing technology that would actually _allow_ me to play, I’d be a defensive end. One job: get off the snap quickly and kill that bastard with the ball. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036/20 "2011-02-21T06:59:31Z")
> [@PlanetCharlie](#): > > Outside of Sandy Koufax, name one decent Jewish athlete. Exactly. 😉 [Ryan Braun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Braun), the Hebrew Hammer (a nickname also apparently applied to Gabe Kapler, Hank Greenberg, and Al Rosen). 😃 Back to the original question… Football: tight end, or placekicker. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-position-would-you-like-to-play-in-your-favorite-team-sports/572036.md?page=2)