Feeling old???

[cloudy]

ESL, don't let your loyalties blind you to truth.

Kevin Mchale was a good defender. He was also a dirty player. Not nearly as bad as some others (Bill Laimber(sp?) comes to mind) but he did play the rough edges of the rules.

and yes, I know Junior Seau was a showboater, just so no one accuses me of homer-ism.


My favorite Laker remains Michael Cooper.

Ooh! Lambeer....how could I forget him???

 

[Belegon]

*sigh* I miss Showtime. I would feel better rooting for the current team if they would not have caved in to Kobe. Traded the wrong guy, in my opinion.

As a fan of the Lakers, Chargers, Padres and LA Kings, I should be used to losing though. The Lakers are the only one of those with a strong winning tradition. Things are on the upswing for the Pads and Bolts though...

 

[cloudy]

*sigh* I miss Showtime. I would feel better rooting for the current team if they would not have caved in to Kobe. Traded the wrong guy, in my opinion.

As a fan of the Lakers, Chargers, Padres and LA Kings, I should be used to losing though. The Lakers are the only one of those with a strong winning tradition. Things are on the upswing for the Pads and Bolts though...

It hasn't been the same for me in a long time. Players don't stick with a team anymore.

 

[rgraham666]

It hasn't been the same for me in a long time. Players don't stick with a team anymore.

They're businessmen now, rather than basketball players. Businessmen go where the money is.

Most of us would be the same way.

 

[cloudy]

They're businessmen now, rather than basketball players. Businessmen go where the money is.

Most of us would be the same way.

Oh, I understand it, but it's still just doesn't have the same zing to be a fan of a team when the team keeps changing.

 

[rgraham666]

Agreed. The only time in my life I paid much attention to sports was 30 years ago, and basketball.

Trivia fact: Danny Aigne also played with the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team.

 

[TxRad]

Old????

I can remember when there was a time with three sports seasons and they didn't overlap... Theres even some off time between....

 

[oggbashan]

I was born long before The Flood.

I remember Noah building The Ark. He wasn't a bad shipbuilder for a little guy.

In this incarnation I started my first full-time job after passing a postgraduate exam in 1962.

I died about 3000BC. I retired in 1986, 1991 and 2004. I don't think they'll let me retire from my voluntary work. I'll probably die working as did my eldest aunt at 91, my mother at 78, and one of my uncles at 92.

Og

 

[justathought555]

Ooh! Lambeer....how could I forget him???

One of my favorite Celtics memories (not 'Bird stole the ball!') was the night that Robert Parish punched Bill Laimbeer, center court, on national TV, and DIDN'T EVEN GET CALLED FOR A FOUL.

It was sweet.

Anyway, while the Celtics/Lakers rivalry was intense, most of us Celtic fans did not hate the Lakers. We respected them. They were too good to not respect.

We did absolutely despise the Pistons, though. Completely. Totally. Utterly. They were thugs. They should have been playing for the Red Wings, not the Pistons.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Oh, I understand it, but it's still just doesn't have the same zing to be a fan of a team when the team keeps changing.

I lived in Chicago during the Bulls reign - talk about a letdown when MJ left, then Pippen and the boys left. And then Phil Jackson went to the Lakers!

We did absolutely despise the Pistons, though. Completely. Totally. Utterly. They were thugs. They should have been playing for the Red Wings, not the Pistons.

Laimbeer played for Detroit too for a while...a man in sore need of that facemask he always wore.

 

[SeaCat]

Oh christ, now you're making me feel old as well. Next gift for me is one of those German Gag hiking canes with the horn, mirror, and of course a small bottle of Schnapps hidden in the haft.

I can remember the Boston Bruins when Andy Moog started in the net.

I can remember having to stay at home in Upstate New York and listening to my father laughing about all the idiots in Boston after the Blizzard of 1978. (He was in Boston for the Grand Opening of the movie Coma, and got stuck there. they were arresting people for driving on the roads. He stuck it out for a day then left, in his Datsun B-210. Was pulled over almost as soon as he reached the highway. When the cop asked him what he thought he was doing my father calmly explained that he drove in conditions like that almost every day, he lived in Upstate New York. The Officer then asked my father where he lived, when my father told him the cop laughed and wrote him a free pass to drive home. It runed out the cop was from the next town over and knew what my father was talking about. We lived in the snow belt where six plus feet of snow a winter was a light winter.)

I remember going back to Germany on Christmas vacation to help celebrate the wall coming down, then freezing my ass off in Berlin listening to Nena sign for the first time in years.

I can remember sitting around the fire house and watching the first footage of Desert Storm coming in over CNN while wondering if my brother and some of my friends in the military were safe.

Born in 1965.
Yes Yui, I'm too old for you, but I can still dream can't I?

Cat

P.S. You're only as old as you feel. That's why I get up at 80 and go to bed at 18.

 

[yui]

Born in 1965.
Yes Yui, I'm too old for you, but I can still dream can't I?

Cat

P.S. You're only as old as you feel. That's why I get up at 80 and go to bed at 18.

I just had one of those moments where I feel like I'm safely eavesdropping (lurking) and someone turns around and speaks directly to me. You actually made me start guiltily in my chair, Cat!

You're only eleven years my senior, that's hardly an age gap. Personally, I believe in old souls, not-so-old souls and young souls. Age is just a number, eh?

 

[maggot420]

I try to play all different kinds of music for my son while he's still young enough to think I know what I'm talking about when it comes to music. So I pulled out some vinyl to play for him and he says "Wow. That's a huge CD."
Then I felt kinda old.
Not old like my soul feels, but just age old.

 

[Guest]

I try to play all different kinds of music for my son while he's still young enough to think I know what I'm talking about when it comes to music. So I pulled out some vinyl to play for him and he says "Wow. That's a huge CD."
Then I felt kinda old.
Not old like my soul feels, but just age old.

my 17yo has a record player and vinyls...
that no longer has the ability to make me feel old...
im too young mentally to feel old physically, for now...ask me at the end of next week and ill have a totally different story im sure.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Don't laugh lil_elvis. That actually happened to me.

Standing in a record store one day, late '70s.

Behind me some li'l teenybopper says "Jeez, did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

(Dead silence fell over the store)

Everybody looked thinking "No, not possible." She and her pubescent companion were either very good actors or dead serious. I vote for serious.

I wasn't yet twenty five, and I felt old.

That's pathetic.

For me the question would be- hey did you know that Paul McCartney was in some band called Wings?

Maybe if they make a movie (like they did of the Doors when I was in HS) people will know who the Beatles are again! I mean WTF?

Oh well.

Umm, I was born in 1975. So maybe I'm unique in that knowledge.

 

[sweetnpetite]

they probably can't imagine a world without ATM's, Microwaves, Internet, Cell Phone's and Pagers.

They've probably never dialed a rotary phone

they don't know what an HBO box is or why it has a key.

 

[SweetVA]

they probably can't imagine a world without ATM's, Microwaves, Internet, Cell Phone's and Pagers.

They've probably never dialed a rotary phone

they don't know what an HBO box is or why it has a key.

My kids love the Bowling for Soup song - 1985 - and love poking fun at me with it.. I had to explain about parachute pants and seeing Thriller for the first time on MTV (you know, back when Music TeleVision actually played music videos..). I graduated from HS in 1985.

VA