Back in my day kids played real sports

Growing up, if you were a boy (which I was), you played sports.  This wasn't just a thing in my family, this was a thing with all boys my age.  Everyone played a sport, and most kids played 3 or 4 sports.  I remember Jr. Jazz basketball being the only topic of conversation between every boy in school from November to February.  Guys who balled in Jr. Jazz were more popular than Stockton and Malone.  There was one kid on my team one year who was one of the three black kids in my school and he could touch the rim, which was a really big deal for middle school kids.  Everyone was 100% sure he was the next MJ.  I think some kids might have even got his autograph.  I'm pretty sure that dude ended up in jail because he roofied some chick and then enjoyed her company.

Things have changed since my youth.  Sports are not the same as the used to be. eSports is a thing, and Koreans are getting athlete visas to come play Starcraft in the U.S.  There isn't a single upcoming baseball player that isn't juicing.  Lance Armstrong juiced during his whole career.  The XFL was a thing.

NFL players can't hit like the used to because they will either get fined or get a concussion.  The Rams asked Brett Favre to come back to play this year.  NBA players spend more time practicing their flopping than their jumpers.

Carly Rae Jepsen made it 3 feet on her opening pitch at a Rays game.

It's not always a bad thing that sports are changing.  Wait, who am I kidding, of course it's a bad thing.  It sucks.  I don't want to watch the Miami Heat, the Yankees, and the Patriots win a buttload of games every year because they have the most money. I want to watch the Jazz get to the finals.  I want to see the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl 4 years in a row.  I want to see the Pistons beat the Lakers and watch Rasheed Wallace throw dudes around and get fouled out every game because of how scrappy he plays. Unfortunately these are things of the past.

Sports may not have changed, maybe I grew up and became more aware.  Maybe media coverage became more extensive and guys couldn't hide their juicing like they could in the 90's.  Maybe I am wrong and sports today are still as awesome as they were 20 years ago, but I would be willing to bet im right.  Can we get back to how things were in the 90's?

Bonus Bosh GIF because it's awesome

Not another dad blog...

This blog is kinda like the old dudes you tend to run into at the rec center. You know, the really old ones who have no problem letting it all hang out. They go and play some racquetball or something while their wives participate in some kind of water aerobics classes. They work up a sweat hobbling back and forth across the court. So they strip their clothes off, sometimes before getting in the door to the locker room, and then they proceed to walk around completely nude and do things at an extremely slow pace for the next 45 minutes.  They shower, they comb their 30 strands of white hair with their pocket comb, they blow dry their junk, they talk about what friends of their were in the obit's today, they reminisce about the french ladies they met during WWII, you know, usual old dude stuff.

This blog will probably ramble on about something nobody has cared about since the last time the Chiefs won a Super Bowl (1969).  This blog will tend to bare it all with no shame and little regard for others. That's really where the similarities end....I mean I did say this blog is kinda like the old dudes at the rec center, I didn't' say exactly like them.

I know what you are thinking: "Not another dad blog.  These things are all over the place these days and they are usually even more boring than mom blogs."  You are right.  They are  and are almost always a total snooze fest.  Lucky for you this isn't exactly a dad blog.  The reason I say that is because this blog most likely won't deal with dad topics all the time, sometimes the posts will be in no way related to dad life. So no worries about it being a boring dad blog. It's just a boring blog with some dad topics and some non-dad topics. So there ya go...

This blog is most of a place for me to collect my thoughts, rants, raves, and stories.  If you choose to read, I hope you enjoy this insight into my life.  If you choose to click that red X in the corner now and never come back, then FINE, WHATEVER, I DON'T NEED YOU ANYWAYS.

As I wrote that line above I realized that unless I want to set my blog up so the oldest posts show on top (which I definitely don't want to do because that's stupid), only the most dedicated readers will likely ever read this once I have a few posts under my belt.  So that was kinda pointless, unless you are reading this because it is my first and only post, then it's not really as pointless but probably still mostly pointless.  Enough rambling, let's get right into the boring stereotypical dad blog stuff!