Comments on: 25 years later: David Overstreet remembered

By: Big Tex

Big Tex — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:04:13 +0000

My stepdad played football with David Overstreet when he was in high school. I also seen the spot where the gas station exploded, and he also told me that Overstreet hit a telephone pole when he hit the gas station and the sparks from the powerline caused the explosion. I wonder if thats true.

By: reginald boykin

reginald boykin — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:50:59 +0000

It was a great pleasure watching da play for miami in 1994 I think against cowboys with my dad willie kaiser that was my first nfl game it was hot that day his wife purchased me a pop cycle at game. When my dad said he was killed that was sAD DAY

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:36:24 +0000

Thanks for the article, sad day when David lost his life. I had the pleasure of playing against David our Senior Year in High School. The game ended in a 0-0 tie, he was a great competitor.

By: Emmett Stephens

Emmett Stephens — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:28:12 +0000

Me, my son, and a friend of his, lived in Henderson. We had heard a lot about Overstreet and we went to Big Sandy once when they were playing Carlisle (Price). It was extremely cold and we sat through the first half. Overstreet scored every time he touched the ball and at the half, the score was 60-0. We were very cold and had seen enough of Overstreet, so we left after the 1st half. He made us proud that we had come to see him play. He was fantastic.

By: Harry Stiles

Harry Stiles — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:24:10 +0000

It must have been 76 or 77, but when Big Sandy went from a Class B school to a Class A School, they had won like 200 games in a row and many consecutive Class B State Titles…The first game they lost to end that streak was to my school, the Arp Tigers…
I was in the booth that night, calling the game…
We won in the last few seconds when our kicker William Batte, kicked a 38 yard field goal to beat them…
Even tho we won, I knew I had seen a great back, maybe the greatest of them all….he gained like 250 yards that night…and kneeled alone in the middle of the field, after the field goad went in…I dont know if he sheeding a tear or what, but he wiped off his face and stood up, looked around, and jogged to catch up with his teamates…

By: kenneth dotson

kenneth dotson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:37:22 +0000

my dad went too high school with david overstreet and i also went there and when i was going there big sandy still have his old jersey up and his pic up where evrybody remamber him and i here nothing but good things about him and we still talk about how good a player he was so he will be always in big sandy isd hero

By: QUINCIS DAVID OVERSTREET

QUINCIS DAVID OVERSTREET — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:43:55 +0000

I talk to my uncle(David Overstreet II) everyday and all we talk about is Football. He pushes me to be better than him and his father… I’m at Duncanville High School working hard and he calls me to make sure I’m not slacking off because he wants me to go to college… I talk to my grandmother(Johnnie Overstreet)about David Overstreet Sr. and when she talks about him she cries because he was a great person overall. This is a football base family we live, breathe, and eat football.
~Quincis~

By: BRITNEY

BRITNEY — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:08:48 +0000

wow that was touching….i know his grandson, he is a wonderful, kind, loving, sweet, person. Amazing atlete with many more talents than football.

By: David

David — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:19:05 +0000

yeah, barry, thank you for the heads up! what a week remembering some influencial people from my youth – michael and farrah, and now a great story about david overstreet. i loved david as a kid and was very sad when we lost him. glad to have thoughts of him terrorizing opposing defenses came back to my mind.

By: Banjo Jones

Banjo Jones — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:39:57 +0000

thanks for the heads-up on the Overstreet story.