FB: American Rivers Conference

[footballdaddy]

41? You're a mere child! If I were to be having a birthday on Saturday I would be 50. Maybe in a few years I'll start acting it.

[dutchfan1]

41? You're a mere child! If I were to be having a birthday on Saturday I would be 50. Maybe in a few years I'll start acting it.

What a difference perspective makes -- I thought it was nearly the end of the world when I turned 30 last summer. (I still tell people that I am 28.) 

[DBQ1965]

41? You're a mere child! If I were to be having a birthday on Saturday I would be 50. Maybe in a few years I'll start acting it.

What a difference perspective makes -- I thought it was nearly the end of the world when I turned 30 last summer. (I still tell people that I am 28.) 

Actually ... 67 and proud of it!

[footballdaddy]

What a difference perspective makes -- I thought it was nearly the end of the world when I turned 30 last summer. (I still tell people that I am 28.) 
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Don't do that, tell everyone that you're 35 so they think you're really in great shape! 

[Walston Hoover]

I'll be 28 this summer and I'm feeling old. Having 2 girls has aged me quite a bit and they're not even 4 yet!

[doolittledog]

I'll be 28 this summer and I'm feeling old. Having 2 girls has aged me quite a bit and they're not even 4 yet!

The real aging won't start until your girls are teenagers.  Just see what happends to you when your 16 year old daughter has a 19 year old that drives a van come to pick her up for a date

Of course you will have good resource material for how to handle the situation by talking to older posters on here that have been through it all before

Of course it might be hard to get that info out of them if Wartburg is still at the top of the heap for IIAC football by that time.  I myself have no doubts that by the time your daughters are teenagers the Dubuque Spartans will be top dogs of the conference...well, it COULD happen. 

[sportsknight]

So at a month shy of 26, do I qualify as the pup of this place?

[Klopenhiemer]

So at a month shy of 26, do I qualify as the pup of this place?

I am 4 months shy of 26.  I got you beat

[Mr. Ypsi]

'cept for DBQ 1965, bunch of whippersnappers!  (I'm 4 months shy of 61.)

To return what set this all off, I don't know squat about Jermar Jackson, but Dick Butkus was tough!

Toddlers wear you out; teenagers make you wonder why you bothered.   (Fortunately, most of them eventually grow up.)

[warthog]

Those of us who were older when the babies began arriving simply stay young longer.  I was often ten years older than the other Little League coaches or volunteers at the Muskie Booster Club concession stand.  Being part of a young person's life will keep you young at heart regardless of what your calendar age is

The next generation of Warthogs are following the "have children later" scenario.  I hadn't thought much about it until I went to a high school class reunion last fall.  I was proudly showing pictures of our first grandchild (2 years old) and realized others at the event were talking about their grandchildren who were in college or enlisted in the military.  Some of my classmates will soon be great-grandparents.

Yikes!  

[coocooforcoekohawk]

Want to feel old?

Play rugby and compete for a spot on a team against 25 year olds when you are almost 40.

One day after practice I told a guy that I started at Coe in '88.  He chuckled and said, "I was two."

[warthog]

Thought for the day:

"I've found prayers work best when you have the biggest players."
Knute Rockne

[Mr. Ypsi]

Want to feel old?

Play rugby and compete for a spot on a team against 25 year olds when you are almost 40.

One day after practice I told a guy that I started at Coe in '88.  He chuckled and said, "I was two."

In my THIRD from the last season of competitive soccer I wore a t-shirt saying "I'm 50 - what's your excuse"!

And I totally agree with Warthog.  I was 40 when my first son was born; coaching soccer kept me way younger than my years.  It was sometimes disconcerting when grandparents of my players were younger than me!

[BeaverOfYore]

So at a month shy of 26, do I qualify as the pup of this place?

I am 4 months shy of 26.  I got you beat

Got you both beat: 24.

[Walston Hoover]

Actually it won't be my own kids that make me older, it is the coaching of 16 year olds and dealing with their antics.
I could follow my own parents' lead of having kids early, and then again late. I was 15 when my youngest brother was born. He is the one that keeps mom and dad young. Not sure what they would do right now without him.
My wife and I have known each other since kindergarten and have been dating since our soph year of HS. Having kids at 24 seemed like the logical next step.
Its funny this topic is brought up now. Jess just busted out her calendar that she's been keeping since we got married and looking back at '03-'04-'05 and it amazes me the places we used to go and the things we did not just on weekends but even during the week. Now our weekends are busier than they were then, just with totally different things.