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Video: John Tavares Plays Box Lacrosse – 1988

I found this video of box lacrosse from 1988 via Teddy Jenner, who found it via Garrett Billings. It features the Mississauga Tomahawks playing against the Etobicoke Eclipse in their final season before folding in OLA Jr A lacrosse. John Taveres played for Mississauga, where he took home Rookie of the Year honors in the OLA in 1988.

Just to put this in perspective for you, I was 8 years old in 1988. John Taveres was playing Jr A ball. I now consider myself an old, mostly retired, broken man. Taveres still rips it up in the NLL. That is some of the craziest longevity in pro sports I’ve ever seen. Simply unreal.

I love the wooden sticks that everyone but one goalie seems to be using. I love the short shorts, and lightly padded goalies. I find it interesting how slow the game looks when compared to the modern game. I find it SHOCKING that some of the guys are wearing half masks (just the plastic hockey eye visor), and not a full cage.

Those were the days! My, how things have changed: