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Post by Ginger on Aug 24, 2023 7:30:43 GMT -6
Here’s a thread to complain about being old…
Here’s what happens to guys when they think they’re still in their prime.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Aug 24, 2023 7:52:25 GMT -6
Guy must not have seen the old show "Pros versus Joes." Any dude that plays in the league is an absolute freak outlier and unless he gets morbidly obese or has an Earl Campbell type of degenerative problem, the dude out of the league is going to be a freak outlier for decades.
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Post by thunderhawk on Aug 28, 2023 0:53:11 GMT -6
Here’s a thread to complain about being old… Here’s what happens to guys when they think they’re still in their prime. I teach kids to run precise pass routes and defend against the same. I keep coaching because I’m the only guy who played those positions and I’m the only one who can coach them to excel at it because I understand the intricacies. Demonstration is essential. Cutting to the chase, even though I’m in great shape, I have fucked myself up teaching those bastards how to stick, jab, release, cut, pivot and go. Especially that last one. Tore a calf muscle. Age reduces your margin of error. |
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Post by thunderhawk on Aug 28, 2023 0:55:05 GMT -6
Guy must not have seen the old show "Pros versus Joes." Any dude that plays in the league is an absolute freak outlier and unless he gets morbidly obese or has an Earl Campbell type of degenerative problem, the dude out of the league is going to be a freak outlier for decades. Speed is what separates NFL players from college players. Everyone in the NFL is fast |
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Post by TaterWanger on Aug 28, 2023 6:26:55 GMT -6
Guy must not have seen the old show "Pros versus Joes." Any dude that plays in the league is an absolute freak outlier and unless he gets morbidly obese or has an Earl Campbell type of degenerative problem, the dude out of the league is going to be a freak outlier for decades. Speed is what separates NFL players from college players. Everyone in the NFL is fast I tore a calf muscle pulling a gainer off the one meter last summer. It felt like somebody shot me in the cab with a bb gun. Even though I have never you're torn a muscle before I knew instantly what I had done. I distinctly remember, as i'm flipping through the air thinking how bad this is going to suck. I became more concerned as I swam slowly to the ladder without any pain whatsoever. I hopped on one foot to the closest bench sat down and took inventory. After a minute or two I thought, whelp better get up and over to my chair before this adrenaline wears off. I put weight on the leg and it was instant fucking fire. I hobbled over to my chair, sat down. I put on my hat and sunglasses and cried. Not because of the pain, But because I realized how bad the recovery and rehab process was going to suck at age forty seven. That fucking thing was non weight bearing for four days. Calf muscles are no fucking joke. That was the day I retired from jumping or anything more athletic than wrapping basketball or swinging a golf club. |
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Post by Other on Aug 28, 2023 6:54:02 GMT -6
Speed is what separates NFL players from college players. Everyone in the NFL is fast I tore a calf muscle pulling a gainer off the one meter last summer. It felt like somebody shot me in the cab with a bb gun. Even though I have never you're torn a muscle before I knew instantly what I had done. I distinctly remember, as i'm flipping through the air thinking how bad this is going to suck. I became more concerned as I swam slowly to the ladder without any pain whatsoever. I hopped on one foot to the closest bench sat down and took inventory. After a minute or two I thought, whelp better get up and over to my chair before this adrenaline wears off. I put weight on the leg and it was instant fucking fire. I hobbled over to my chair, sat down. I put on my hat and sunglasses and cried. Not because of the pain, But because I realized how bad the recovery and rehab process was going to suck at age forty seven. That fucking thing was non weight bearing for four days. Calf muscles are no fucking joke. That was the day I retired from jumping or anything more athletic than wrapping basketball or swinging a golf club. Ha! The diving board was also the place for my ‘I’m too old for this shit’ moment. I took one hop on the board came down and my lower back exploded in pain. There probably aren’t too many people that know the precise moment they’ll never use a diving board again. |
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Post by NOTTHOR on Aug 28, 2023 7:02:50 GMT -6
I tore a calf muscle pulling a gainer off the one meter last summer. It felt like somebody shot me in the cab with a bb gun. Even though I have never you're torn a muscle before I knew instantly what I had done. I distinctly remember, as i'm flipping through the air thinking how bad this is going to suck. I became more concerned as I swam slowly to the ladder without any pain whatsoever. I hopped on one foot to the closest bench sat down and took inventory. After a minute or two I thought, whelp better get up and over to my chair before this adrenaline wears off. I put weight on the leg and it was instant fucking fire. I hobbled over to my chair, sat down. I put on my hat and sunglasses and cried. Not because of the pain, But because I realized how bad the recovery and rehab process was going to suck at age forty seven. That fucking thing was non weight bearing for four days. Calf muscles are no fucking joke. That was the day I retired from jumping or anything more athletic than wrapping basketball or swinging a golf club. Ha! The diving board was also the place for my ‘I’m too old for this shit’ moment. I took one hop on the board came down and my lower back exploded in pain. There probably aren’t too many people that know the precise moment they’ll never use a diving board again. Expo Pool, Fort Dodge, Iowa, summer 1985. It was a short walk from my backyard and my mom got us a season pass and told my brother, who was 12 at the time, to just make sure "your brother doesn't drown." Decided to try the high dive. That sumnabitch must have been 100 feet in the air. Get up there, take a look down, decide I don't want to jump. Turn around to go back down and half the god damned town was already up the ladder, so there was no way in hell I was getting down other than jumping. I look down the ladder. "Hurry it up, pussy." Oh fuck, I'm gonna have to jump. So I jumped, prolly got a half a gallon of water in my lungs when I hit. Made it to the ladder and will never ever ever go off a god damned high dive again. Fuck that. I don't remember the date, but I remember the moment. I'm far too big of a pussy to go off the high dive. |
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Post by Ginger on Aug 28, 2023 8:18:40 GMT -6
My husband is a prime example of someone that thinks he can but he can’t and he always finds out.
At 38 when he was still a plumber he tried carrying a very old water heater out of a basement by himself. Hurt his back and was miserable for two years before a doctor would do disc surgery in him. Two discs. That’s when he decided to stop being a plumber. Had back surgery again shoveling snow in front of our house and slipped and completely landed flat on his back. I saw it happen. The only thing that saved his head was a sheep’s wool hat like the Russian wear. A few years ago he had put in a new toilet in the basement bathroom. It had been sitting in the driveway a bit too long and I asked him to take care of it. He didn’t want to get my son up out of bed and would just do it himself. He came back later in extreme pain and said that he had gone to the county dump where people can take stuff they don’t want and picked the toilet up and tossed it over his head into a dumpster. He ripped everything in his shoulder. I told him he was stupid. Just came right out, but wasn’t wrong. He ended up finding a surgeon that could rebuild his shoulder by talking some tendons from his scapula and get got full control back. The surgeon said if he did something dumb like that again he would need a total shoulder implant. The recovery was long and painful. I still have to remind him when I see him doing stuff he shouldn’t.
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Post by socal on Aug 28, 2023 11:46:41 GMT -6
This is why there won't be another revolution.
Too fucking hard and people know it will hurt.
If the young uns decide to rise up and take out the boo mers, I'll certainly advise.
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Post by thunderhawk on Aug 28, 2023 11:53:37 GMT -6
Speed is what separates NFL players from college players. Everyone in the NFL is fast I tore a calf muscle pulling a gainer off the one meter last summer. It felt like somebody shot me in the cab with a bb gun. Even though I have never you're torn a muscle before I knew instantly what I had done. I distinctly remember, as i'm flipping through the air thinking how bad this is going to suck. I became more concerned as I swam slowly to the ladder without any pain whatsoever. I hopped on one foot to the closest bench sat down and took inventory. After a minute or two I thought, whelp better get up and over to my chair before this adrenaline wears off. I put weight on the leg and it was instant fucking fire. I hobbled over to my chair, sat down. I put on my hat and sunglasses and cried. Not because of the pain, But because I realized how bad the recovery and rehab process was going to suck at age forty seven. That fucking thing was non weight bearing for four days. Calf muscles are no fucking joke. That was the day I retired from jumping or anything more athletic than wrapping basketball or swinging a golf club. That's exactly how it felt, like I'd been shot in the calf. Frankly I was surprised that it doesn't seem to be permanent, but I'm still wary about it and wear a wrap when I'm stressing it. Scared the shit out of me. I stretch like a freak before I do any running or jumping now. |
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Post by NOTTHOR on Aug 28, 2023 13:02:45 GMT -6
This is why there won't be another revolution. Too fucking hard and people know it will hurt. If the young uns decide to rise up and take out the boo mers, I'll certainly advise. My wife is a bit of an amateur prepper (this woman called me crazy for buying emergency supplies when we moved into our house). A few weeks ago she was asking about some freaking 90 day MRE kit or some shit and I was like "babe, you need at absolute max an additional 30 day supply of food, water and candles and several thousand rounds to make sure you can keep it, but that's all you need." If shit ever actually hit the fan, I'm assuming most people would be dead or virtually immobile within 14 days from lack of food. The average person has no concept of how difficult life would become instantly without utilities and modern logistics. In a shit hits the fan scenario you just need to survive past the mass extinction wave, which would likely come very quickly if modern utilities and transport systems broke down. Go walk around a Wal-Mart - tell me how long those fat fucks would survive without heat or A/C. |
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Post by Stan's Field on Aug 28, 2023 13:36:01 GMT -6
Bunch a fucking geezers
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Post by livingintheusa on Sept 18, 2023 9:46:09 GMT -6
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Post by LansingHawk on Sept 19, 2023 8:16:45 GMT -6
Geezerhood kicks in at 70, maybe 75. |
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Post by Stan's Field on Sept 19, 2023 9:50:07 GMT -6
Geezerhood kicks in at 70, maybe 75. Link? |
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Post by livingintheusa on Sept 20, 2023 10:46:17 GMT -6
IS this the Music Thread?
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Post by livingintheusa on Sept 20, 2023 13:25:40 GMT -6
Geezerhood kicks in at 70, maybe 75. Bro some of my best years were from 70 to to 75 |
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Post by LansingHawk on Sept 20, 2023 18:27:49 GMT -6
Geezerhood kicks in at 70, maybe 75. Link? Because I said so, that's all you the proof you need. |
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Post by LansingHawk on Sept 20, 2023 18:29:34 GMT -6
Geezerhood kicks in at 70, maybe 75. Bro some of my best years were from 70 to to 75 My dad is 84, geezerhood is hitting hard. So let's go with 80, OK? |
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Post by Ginger on Sept 22, 2023 20:06:59 GMT -6
Holy shit.
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Post by livingintheusa on Sept 26, 2023 17:25:17 GMT -6
Bro some of my best years were from 70 to to 75 My dad is 84, geezerhood is hitting hard. So let's go with 80, OK? What I thought we were talking 1970 to 1975 . Back when beer was cheap, smoke was smoke And girls were easy. My bad. |
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