See Reggie run. See Reggie avoid tackles. See Reggie scored alot of touchdowns. See Reggie do all this…in high school.
You know you’re good when a high school football highlight tape circulates around looking grainy but showing amazing things. We’ve seen Reggie Bush on the field at USC. Amazing. Unbelieveable. However we all never really heard of him coming out of high school. It’s probably because if you’re a Division I prospect, you’re expected to run around and over your competition in high school. However at Helix High School, they knew they had a star in the making.
This is “The Tape” that convinced USC that Reggie deserved a scholarship. They weren’t too sold on him until they saw this high school video. At USC now they show these highlights to enterain guests. Faculty at Helix show it for laughs. Typically you don’t hear of high school game highlights circling the underground almost like a lost Led Zepplin bootleg. But this grainy highlight tape shows that he did in high school what he’s doing today in college football. Even though it’s not the best quality and the audio cuts out, it’s worth watching. He shows his natural speed and the ability to break tackles just like you’ve seen him do at USC.
The story and video clip are from the NY Times.
See also Reggie’s highlights at ESPN Motion [Espn.com]
See also Reggie Bush’s college highlight video. [Sports Pulse]
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It would have been plain silly to play against this guy in high school. Also, notice former teammate and current 49ers QB Alex Smith (#7) in these clips.