Hammerheads Add Veteran Giddings and Forbes
January 14, 2008 - Intense Football League (Intense)
Corpus Christi Hammerheads News Release
CORPUS CHRISTI - Hammerheads owner Chad Dittman recently announced the signings of receiver Ed Giddings and back-up quarterback and receiver Charlie Forbes.
Giddings is an indoor football veteran, and at 6-2 and 215 pounds, immediately gives the Hammerheads a big possession-type receiver. The Philadelphia native spent the second half of the 2007 season with the CenTex Barracudas. In only seven games, he had 34 catches for 496 yards and seven touchdowns. He emerged as one of the top receivers in the IFL late last season. In the final four games of 2007, he caught 23 passes for 330 yards. His best game of the season, came against the Louisiana Swashbucklers just before the postseason. Though the Swashbucklers had the league's best defense, Giddings burned their secondary for six catches and 112 yards.
In 2006, Giddings started for former IFL team, the Laredo Lobos. In that season, he made a name for himself in the IFL with a five-touchdown game against Corpus Christi. He was later named an IFL All-Star and had two touchdown catches in the league's all-star game. Though he missed part of that season with a neck injury, he finished with 24 touchdown receptions. He spent 2005 as a member of the American Independent Football League's Johnstown Riverhawks.
Giddings graduated from University High School where he excelled in not only football, but basketball as well. In football, he was named All-Public Rookie of the Year (1994), All-Public/All-City Team (1995-1997) and the Philadelphia All-Decade Team. Later, upon graduation, he went to Cheney University where he was All-PSAC first team his Sophomore year, All-PSAC second team his Junior year, and an HBCU All-Star Nominee his senior year.
Forbes was on the Hammerheads' roster in 2007, but did not play because of a training camp injury.
After playing high school football and baseball at George West and then Alice High School, Forbes went on to play college football at Texas Lutheran where he played receiver and was a teammate of Hammerheads Rodderick Chambers and Matt Ross.
"We have a solid team, and Ed and Charlie are just two more important pieces to the puzzle," Dittman said.
The Hammerheads were 12-2 in 2007 and went on to play in the Intense Bowl for the second-consecutive year.
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