Don't grow old. If you plan to, protect your body. I used to laugh when my dad told me, in the morning I wake up and everything hurts. I realize the folks that need this info the most are probably 40 years younger then our demographic.
I was 6'6, 165 at 14. Skipped a grade. Started school in NY, which made me 2 years younger than my classmatwes, so I was always playing with older kids.
I was a receiver, a center and a pitcher. I can still feel getting speared in the back, above hip pads below shoulder pads like there was a bullseye there. Or other equally insane athletic nonsense. I tried to throw a baseball out of the college fb field, on which our game was to be played. My shoulder hurt for a month.
Today I have 2 titanium knees, and I'm trying to avoid hip surgery. 7 spinal fractures. And fingers that look like bananas. Having broken most of them. I think as parents, particularly sports fan parents we need to protect our kids. I'm approaching 79. I was born 4 days before YA titles sugar bowl mvp.
I still laugh, when I consider the alternative to pain...i.e., the dirt nap. But I really, REALLY wish someone, a coach, anyone would have told me the long term impact, later in life, of feeling big and indestructible. Its not only a myth, its crazy.
tell someone you care about. I realize this is only peripherally related to sports, but kids I played with played on the rams, lakers and dodgers. So this is a one-off, for a slow sports Monday afternoon. If one kid, 'gets it' I'll take all the flack anyone wants to throw. Came to mind, because today was top 10, pain wise. bpl 2 all.
I was 6'6, 165 at 14. Skipped a grade. Started school in NY, which made me 2 years younger than my classmatwes, so I was always playing with older kids.
I was a receiver, a center and a pitcher. I can still feel getting speared in the back, above hip pads below shoulder pads like there was a bullseye there. Or other equally insane athletic nonsense. I tried to throw a baseball out of the college fb field, on which our game was to be played. My shoulder hurt for a month.
Today I have 2 titanium knees, and I'm trying to avoid hip surgery. 7 spinal fractures. And fingers that look like bananas. Having broken most of them. I think as parents, particularly sports fan parents we need to protect our kids. I'm approaching 79. I was born 4 days before YA titles sugar bowl mvp.
I still laugh, when I consider the alternative to pain...i.e., the dirt nap. But I really, REALLY wish someone, a coach, anyone would have told me the long term impact, later in life, of feeling big and indestructible. Its not only a myth, its crazy.
tell someone you care about. I realize this is only peripherally related to sports, but kids I played with played on the rams, lakers and dodgers. So this is a one-off, for a slow sports Monday afternoon. If one kid, 'gets it' I'll take all the flack anyone wants to throw. Came to mind, because today was top 10, pain wise. bpl 2 all.
