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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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“Sistine Chapel, how old Michelangelo?”
“33”
“Moon landing, how old Neil Armstrong?”
“38”
“Became President, how old Barack Obama?”
“47”
“Still got three years”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ze87zQFSak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ze87zQFSak)
There’s a competitive rock climber named Akiyo Noguchi who competed into her 30s and I swear every time she’d compete, the commentators would do everything short of calling her an “old hag.”
Tbf every major league sport is joint damage for time, except for american football, it’s brain damage for time
You get desensitized from it by watching the Olympics and seeing athletes perform at peak human levels at age 18 or something
In e-sports you age out at like 18 lol.
To be fair, old for professional sports and old for life are 2 different olds.
That shit creeps up quick after 25.
The amount of life left over after professional sports hits a lot of guys really hard.
3 years in the NFL on average. You’re 26 and out of the league you spent your entire life getting into.
Now what?
Fernando Alonso is considered very old for the sport of F1, yet he’s only 43 years old. In just 24 years, he has watched like 3 generations of F1 drivers come and go. He’s got more experience in his pinky finger than I’ve got in my whole body, yet he’s only 43
Hey Lebron just turned 40.
And he’s so old his kid is playing with him
just scroll linkedin, that’s enough to get your self esteem through the depths of hell
I read that in the voice of Al Michaels.
In life, 35 is not old. In professional sports, 32 is old af.
Roger Federer played pro tennis until 2022 and he’s in his 40s. Lebron is 40 too. Sports science has come to a point where you don’t have to retire at 27 because you blew your elbow out 3 years ago and just didn’t have what it took anymore.
Carlos Sainz is 30, he’s the 4th oldest driver in F1
Um yeah. That’s because they get paid over 1M a year to have bricks thrown at them essentially for any kind of athletic team and other agencies. Everyone accepts it. That’s ENTRY for something requiring a type of physicality you have and are paid for
He’s just setting a good example for the rest of the children on the team
i feel seen
Lebron is my age. I have no idea how he physically can be dominant at this age.
Also, it’s getting to that time where Joey Porter Jr. and Surtain are in the league
I’ve never felt older.
First stage of grief… Denial
Coincidentally, this is also how it feels trying to conceive after 35. In all other areas of your life, you have your whole life ahead of you, but in this one you feel like an old hag with the grains of sand slipping through your fingers. And then when you do get pregnant, you’re literally called geriatric!
Number one reason you ‘age out’ in competitive sports is because of how stressful competition is.
People who take care of themselves can do amazing things well into their 50’s.
Ted Lasso making Roy Kent (age 35) seem like a decrepit corpse reanimated to play football who was so ancient a light gust of wind may have crumbled him to dust was always both funny and wholly depressing
They didn’t explain to him how time works.
And here I am almost 24 and I feel like I’m falling behind despite doing the best out of all my friends because I haven’t managed to spend enough time on the dating game to have a chance of getting a good relationship started that will reach the point where I can get married and have kids and I’m gonna end up having my first at 30 which means I’ll be 58 when my first reaches adulthood which means most of the good parts of my life will be over before I can really enjoy life with my kids as adults and Id need to live to at least 76 to see my first grandchild hit adulthood and
It’s a mess.
What sport, college football?