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

Wouldnt you want to cash in? Most of these guys wont see money like this for 1 year, ever.

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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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Its not massive but it certainly exists. More important is the brain between the ears....its usually far more conditioned at 25 than it is at 19 and being humbled and humiliated at 19 by a 26 year old is a net positive for a 19 year old who has been told since he was 12 that he was the best, he can't be beat and that no one is as special as he is. Even more important when that 19 year old has a bunch of 40 and older folks tossing money at him. Life ain't fair....it is, in fact, just the opposite. CFB is about winning and if that means fielding a team of 30 year olds that is the correct thing to do. Those 18-19 year olds are getting paid and are professionals just like plumbers....is it unfair that a plumber with 7 years experience is a better plumber than one with no experience? Of course not. If those 18-19 year olds want to discuss going back to the pre-NIL and portal eras then it may be a valid point but I doubt seriously there are many takers....

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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....