Are we raising soft kids?

[wingman10]

back in my day..plenty of players would have to miss games (including state tournament) to work in the fields...and on Fri night in football and basketball nights, a lot of us would have to walk home after games...some lived 7 to 9 miles away

[nrgrizzlies]

But I did all that while working three full time jobs: coal mine, slaughterhouse, lumber mill.

 

You never heard ME complain about anything.  We had it terrible and loved it.  Wouldn't have traded places with those rich BelleMeade prep school kids for anything.  They had it too good.

They must have really hated it.

[FridayMainEvent]

back in my day..plenty of players would have to miss games (including state tournament) to work in the fields...and on Fri night in football and basketball nights, a lot of us would have to walk home after games...some lived 7 to 9 miles away

Come on now Wingman.  You had me until the nine miles....

[nrgrizzlies]

And we rode mules to the away games.  And then if we didn't win, the coach made us walk back. That was over 70 miles one time.  I almost ended up late for my shifts at the coal mine, slaughterhouse, and lumber mill.  Seven miles?  To us seven miles was like 50 feet.  People today wouldn't walk 50 feet.  They would have to call Uber or Lyft for a 50 foot ride.  Even if they weren't drunk.  People today make me want to throw up, but throwing up is for whiners and losers, so I don't do it.

[Red Rebels]

And I still had over 1800 rushing yards by the sixth game out of the old single-wing offense.  But my foot got mangled pretty bad working at my other full time job, in the slaughterhouse and I only finished with 2700 yards rushing for the season.  That was when Texas A&M and Oklahoma State stopped recruiting me.  So I had to drop out of school and pick up a third full time job down at the lumber mill, loading 500 pound railroad ties onto flatbed trucks.  It paid 3 cents an hour but I was glad to do it.

 

What's a few splinters and a permanently injured back when you have the pleasure of knowing this is the plan the "big guy upstairs" had for you all along.  If they would just make prayer mandatory in public schools, this country wouldn't have any problems anymore.  That's what reverend Cletus-Jasper the youth pastor said.  Until he got arrested for stalking under-age girls.  

I bet OSU was still called Oklahoma A&M back then.

 

[STARSNBARS]

Eye wood say yep.....Nobodee likes two play inn tha rane ennymoore.....

[nrgrizzlies]

Obviously some kids ate paint chips off the wall that contained brain damaging lead.

 

naught seyin' hoo er any-thang.... jest seyin' it musta happ-pinned

[HTV]

We live in a "turn off the score board and give everybody a certificate of participation, banana, and a juice box" world.

 

So, the short and to the point answer would be yes.  

[nrgrizzlies]

I hope you make those two toddlers run the stadium steps in the rain if they lose in T-ball while the winning team gets pizza and cold drinks indoors.  That'll teach 'em.  

 

See, there's not enough of us right-wing fundamentalists left anymore.  Were you at the gun show last week at the county fairgrounds?  You look familiar.  

[STARSNBARS]

Luckeelee eye didn't haiv two eat pant chips....Eye haiv eat sum old stail tater chips tho....

 

 

Edited November 4, 2015 by STARSNBARS

[wingman10]

Come on now Wingman.  You had me until the nine miles....

for some it was....county school and small communities and a lot of times one could not hitch a ride...long, long time ago...was normal for a lot of old timers...just not where I lived...

[nrgrizzlies]

They needed to have the preacher paint the bus red to drive the team and then back to white for the summer snake handling revival shows.  Just like Strap said in Hoosiers.  Norman Dale was a real man.  He wasn't afraid to punch out his own player. Until America recruits guys who like to punch out their own players, everything will continue to go to he!! in a handbasket. The main strategy of winning coaching in sports: Offense, defense, and assault and battery of your team members.  Worked for Norman Dale.

 

Edited November 5, 2015 by nrgrizzlies