Accepting facts and old age

[cyanide-sid]

Today is going to be a particularly traumatic day for me as I have finally accepted certain facts and am now going to throw out my Addidas Beckenbauer football boots that I wore in the late seventies and as late as the 1984 football season. (the laces have completely rotted away)
Having recently celebrated my 50th birthday the realisation that A) I`m not going to make it and B) I`m not even ever going to play again has knocked me back a bit. OK I haven`t played for 20 years but that`s not the point is it ?
This has come on the back of last year when I threw out a pair of Steve Ovett running shoes when I realised the world mile record was now beyond me.

Anyone else been through this ?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Nope.

I'm 37 and playing in the highest grade basketball I've ever played.

The NBA is the only logical next step.

 

[bhaexpress]

It starts when you realise that Policepersons, Doctors and Dentists are all younger than you. Your hair goes grey (and with a lot of blokes, falls out) and you also find that Radio One is very annoying.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i've just turned 24 and i'm already going grey

looks like it's all downhill from here

 

[manilaseagull]

Nope.

I'm 37 and playing in the highest grade basketball I've ever played.

The NBA is the only logical next step.

You mean netball?

 

[Trufflehound]

It starts when to realise that Policepersons, Doctors and Dentists are all younger than you. Your hair goes grey (and with a lot of blokes, falls out) and you also find that Radio One is very annoying.

With the honourable exception of John Peel, was there ever a time when Radio One wasn't very annoying?

 

[cyanide-sid]

The first time I used those Beckenbauer boots was in a Worthing League game where I was marking the great Richard Tiltman. We lost 15 nil.
I wasn`t really a defender though.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

You mean netball?

No I mean basketball

I've scored 55 points in a game, old fart got game!


Have played netball though, absolute rubbish game, with shit rules.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Nope.

Age 47 and got four hundreds last year.

Fight the dying of the light!

PG

 

[Trufflehound]

Age 47 and got four hundreds last year.

Yeah, but any old git can play darts...

 

[glasfryn]

The first time I used those Beckenbauer boots was in a Worthing League game where I was marking the great Richard Tiltman. We lost 15 nil.
I wasn`t really a defender though.

that used to be my story

whatever you do look after your legs I am 64 now and they have always been my savior I have been able to walk miles now the bastard knee's have decided to give up the ghost.
every thing else I have been able to cope with the big C,diabetes,arthritis, ect ect but if my knees have gone then I am reliant on the NHS to try and repair them which basically means I'm fecked, unless my doctor is the good old miracle worker he has been in the past and give me my old anti inflamatory drugs back(the last ones were with drawn because some twat saved his and tried to do away with himself with them) and my old pain killers withdrawn for the same reason which proves the old adage that you are only going to be pain free as long as the other bastards play along with the game I mean if you ARE going to do away with yourself then throw yourself of Beachy head or under a bus that way you will only affect yourself and not others who are in pain

RANT OVER

 

[readingstockport]

you also find that Radio One is very annoying.

I found radio 1 annoying when I was 18. Appart from Peel and Nightingale that is.

I realised I was officially old when someone put me as a named driver for his landrover and the price went DOWN.

 

[Fef]

It's also a real pisser when you realise that having reached 50, you're now nearer to being 60 than you are to being 40; and when you reach 60 .... etc.

It's all down to mental attitude; some people seem to be born old while others remain young. I remember a kid at school who carried on like he was an old codger - he was sixty at fifteen; but we've all seen sixty, seventy, eighty year olds who do things as though they were half their age.

Stay young!

 

[Boroseagull]

Just remember you are too old now to wear jeans - if you don't believe me look at Clarkson.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Today is going to be a particularly traumatic day for me as I have finally accepted certain facts and am now going to throw out my Addidas Beckenbauer football boots that I wore in the late seventies and as late as the 1984 football season. (the laces have completely rotted away)
Having recently celebrated my 50th birthday the realisation that A) I`m not going to make it and B) I`m not even ever going to play again has knocked me back a bit. OK I haven`t played for 20 years but that`s not the point is it ?
This has come on the back of last year when I threw out a pair of Steve Ovett running shoes when I realised the world mile record was now beyond me.

Anyone else been through this ?

I'm 48 and just starting to think that I might never play for England. Not sure I'd understand Fabios teamtalks anyway, so maybe it's a good thing.

 

[upthealbion1970]

i've just turned 24 and i'm already going grey

looks like it's all downhill from here

I started going grey at 21

 

[smudge]

I'm 50 at the end of the month, still keeping fit, but the pschological barrier I'm about to crash through is depressing.
f*** it.

 

[sjamesb3466]

It starts when you realise that Policepersons, Doctors and Dentists are all younger than you. Your hair goes grey (and with a lot of blokes, falls out) and you also find that Radio One is very annoying.

To be fair I'm only 24 and whilst I have a beautiful head of brown hair I find Radio 1 ball breakingly annoying!!!

 

[BLOCK F]

With the honourable exception of John Peel, was there ever a time when Radio One wasn't very annoying?

Blimey,I thought he was the most annoying of all, playing obscure music that no-one except the pseuds wanted to listen to!

 

[m20gull]

I'm 50 this year and in the last three years I have run a half marathon, completed an olympic distance triathlon and been ski-ing for the first time in 25 years. This year I'm aiming to cycle the South Downs way and now I've started trampolining. I'm now fitter than I've ever been, but then I used to be a fat slob.

I thought the worst barrier for me was 35. Closer to 50 than 20. Now I just know I'm old!