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Hmm interesting, the bloke who put a shoulder in was a rep player weighing in at 240 lb, where the middle aged bloke was lucky to touch 160lb.
So at fifty eight you would be up to taking part in this bit elegant violence ?
No no pads.
You sound as if you can barely comprehend the major issue was 240lbs against 160lbs. Middle age is a factor, but an absolute irrelevancy here. I am 44 at about 190lbs, and I would obliterate most 160lb, 20-30 year olds. Sounds a lot like sour grapes from some meat heads who don't have enough sac to date the 28 year old babe.
You're right. I played club lacrosse until I was 66 and got the living daylights beat out of me. But I could still pass and shoot more accurately than a lot of the younger players and I never lost sight of how to be in the right position on the field. It's nature vs. nurture, but eventually nature does catch up with you.
For many men past 50, sitting on your butt is not called fun. Some like to get up and mix it up with the kids. What's wrong with that. He got knocked out. Could have happened to someone younger too, you don't know. I ride motorcycles and I'm 59. Some would call me too old, but there's plenty of guys who do this. I think your comment is not only sexist, but you lack respect for your elders. Plus, I regularly see women who don't "dress their age" either. Its their life, let them be and stop being so judgmental.
The idiot here, the way I see it, is the dumbass 240 meathead who tanked the 160 older man and YOU for thinking he deserved it.
It was a pick-up game afterall...did he really have to prove how "big and bad" he was by taking out someone significantly smaller than him?
My husband plays ice hockey. It's supposed to be non-contact but put a bunch of testosterone on the ice and it's fun to watch. Anyhow, there is one guy in his 50's and one that is 63 (the rest of the team is mid 30's to mid 40's). These dudes can skate circles around some of the players. My husband always comments that he hopes he is still playing well at their ages.
As a 44-year-old, I can tell you that as you age and so much of your life repeats yourself, sometimes it is difficult to really really assess just where you "fit" among others.
I'm not talking about 60-year-olds who shouldn't be wearing bikinis and Speedos. I just mean it's hard to tell how old others really are in relation to you.
I have friends who are 20 years older than I and friends who are 20 years younger than I. Sometimes when we are together, I forget I'm not just like them. I mean, especially with my 20something friends, we can all laugh about the same movies or talk about music that we all enjoy. Later, in a fit of self-consciousness, I wonder if they just were tolerating me.
You won't understand it until you've lived a while longer. This realization that you are aging sometimes happens slowly. One day you're buying the same color eye shadow that you always have, and then you can only get it at one store, and then that store stops carrying it. And finally you say to yourself, "Hmm, maybe the reason I can't get that color anymore is because it's out of style. Guess I'd better find a new color."
The same thing happens with men, just with different stuff. You can't run as far as you used to. You need glasses to read the instructions for the new sound system. etc. The jeans you've "always bought" because they fit just right are nowhere to be found at any store.
I know, you probably wanted to hear some trash talk about old guys and ego and libido. Sometimes it's that. But not always.
Tried to rep you but still have to spread love... and there are so few I love, alas!
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