re: How pathetic is it that grown men want to play against kids?

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That's literally what is happening to college sports. The differences in maturity and development of a 26 year old playing against 18 and 19 year olds is massive.

How much of a pussy do you have to be to demand that you are allowed to play any sport against kids? How sad is it that you have to do that rather than move on to the next level?

It's as bad as a grown arse man demanding that he gets to beat up on a woman by claiming to be a woman.

I say that as a grad of and fan of Bama who is allowing it too. Pathetic.

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In the NIL era why wouldn't you? You're going to take the moral high ground and pass up an opportunity to make life changing money playing a game just because its "unfair"? Doing so doesn't make one a pussy, not doing so does make one an idiot.

I'd knock line drives off a tee at the head of 5 year old girls t-ball teams if Dr. Pepper offered me $4 million to do so. Those 18 and 19 year olds will have the SAME opportunity to make it to the NFL that they had with or without getting their head knocked off by a grown man. That 26 year old is most likely done. Adversity builds character. It is probably a good thing that an 18 year old millionaire get humbled early in his college football career by an "old man"....

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For $4 million per year, I will show up at a Pee Wee League game and pooch punt a few of the little bastards.

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Only in the spirit of good clean athletic competition though....

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I could bench press 75 lbs more at 21 after not working out for a year than I could at 18 working out every day. There’s a big difference between 18 and 23-24 year olds. I agree that an 18 year old isn’t necessarily a kid though.

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When I was 18 I had played high school football for 4 years. When I went to work I could carry a 2X4 lay in light fixture up a 8 foot ladder and lay in the ceiling grid. I could carry a piece of 2 inch schedule pipe up a ladder and screw it to another piece....but it was a struggle.

By 23 I could carry that light fixture up that ladder and lay it in without any struggle and could do about 10 times as many in an 8 hour day as I could at 18. I could also climb 3 sections of scaffolding with a piece of 4 inch schedule 40 pipe on one shoulder and never thing about it being difficult. I wasn't in any better "shape" I was just a grown arse man....and not a kid. Prior to starting work I had spent several hours a day in the weight room lifting weights, running and practicing football. When I started work I spent 8 hours a day doing some slightly physically demanding work and most of my free time eating and drinking and chasing pussy. Had it not been the natural process of transitioning from a boy to a man I would have gone backwards from 18-23...instead I was far more physically capable at 23...and even more so at 35.

Old man strength is real. When my son was 18 I was 52. He was a physical specimen...broad shouldered, huge biceps and legs, narrow waist....was useless as tits on a boar hog physically. Meanwhile I was 5'10, 240 and nearly crippled from years of manual labor...and could whip his arse wrestling, sparring with gloves, toting shite...in any way measurable I was more physically capable and by a massive margin at that time. He is now 26. Still built the same....and is a fricking man. I wouldn't want to tangle with him with a pistol in my hand. 8 years ago I could wrestle him to the ground and hold him there as long as I wanted to. He'd whup my arse like a punching bag today. He helps me out around the sawmill from time to time and can lift a 18 inch pine tree 10 foot long off the ground on one end about 3 feet high. I get tired lifting that same log with the tractor. We picked up some black walnut logs off the side of road about 6 weeks ago about 12 inches in diameter and 6 feet long and we initially tried to do it with one on each end...he eventually told me to move out of the way and tossed those frickers in the truck....6 of them similarly sized...and never grunted. I needed a nap watching him. Its real....man strength is not a myth. Its also real that it slips away fast....

Go Admirals! Damn, now I want some Fuji’s.

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1958 Alabama Football Roster coached by Bear Bryant.

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Look at all those players from tiny, little po-dunk towns in Alabama. Elba, Jasper, Attalla, Red Level, West Blocton, Demopolis.

There isn't anyone in College sports who is a kid.

Funny how the age of "kids" keeps growing in our society, from the sports world to culture to crime. Soon it will be 30 and under.

Can't buy Cigarettes in some States until you're 21 , can't even buy a lighter.

But hey, at 17-18 , you could storm the Beaches of Normandy with a wife back home.

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Sorry for the hijack, but we’re contemplating multiple locations for retirement and Farragut is a contender. How do you like living there?

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absolutely love it, it's blowing up. Great restaurants, low crime and very close to the smoky mtns.

Would be great to retire here.

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People acting like there is some massive physical gap between a 19 year old and a 25 year old are stupid as shite.

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You're the one who's stupid if you don't know that.