God damn… I’m officially either A) Old B) Underachieved or C) Both.
I wonder what conversations are like when he runs into other dads at his kids daycare and they don’t already know:
“Hey man, nice to meet you. I’m Joe. Ryan? Welcome to the area. I manage the car audio department at Best Buy in Skokie so if you need some cables or something let me know. Where do you work?”
“I’m the new GM for the Chicago Bears”
“…”
(Not in The Game Room because it’s not about sports. It’s about feeling old)
So he has plenty of time to win the World Series?
I went to a professional basketball game several years ago with my wife, and while looking over the program, we noticed more than one player was born the year we both graduated high school.
Feeling : Old
A lot of egos in pro sports. I wish him luck, and I really wish him success.
Omg really? The World Series? He’s talking about the CHICAGO BEARS. How stupid are you?
He has to win the World Cup
I still marvel at the fact that there are people born in the 90’s that are old enough to drink and have graduated college working professional careers.
The 90’s was my 20-somethings decade!
The current GM of the Cubs - Theo Epstein - Wikipedia - was GM of the Boston Red Sox at age 30, and won a World Series by age 32. This guy is an old fogey by comparison.
Just remember, by the time Mozart was your age…
he’d been dead for three years.
I haven’t yet had to deal with the idea of being older than the President of the United States. But it’s getting closer: Obama is less than three months older than me.
Garrison Keillor once did a long riff on this… how it was okay if you hadn’t done this by 25, because so-and-so was 27 when he did it; if you hadn’t written anything by 40, because Faulkner (or someone) didn’t sell his first story until 42; and so on and so on, up to the classic Grandma Moses age stuff around 100.
Long pause.
“Mozart is pretty disappointing no matter how old you are…”
You’re catching up on him, Nemo! 
This is the Bears we’re talking about. Why are people talking about winning anything?
You’re not old until the oldest player in your favorite sport is younger than you.
I used to like Baseball, but now I’m leaning towards Bocce, or Shuffleboard, they’re still cool, right?
I felt old when I realized I’m older than the President of the United States! Also older than the bishop of my Episcopal diocese.
Strike “Bears”.
Insert “Chicago”.
Fixed.
Jason Garrett was a couple of years ahead of me in college. I see he just signed a deal for $30M. In other news, I didn’t.
That’s while I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016. She’ll be 69 by the time she’s inaugurated. That gives me some breathing room.
Forget Mozart. I’ve already outlived Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
I know, now they’re all decomposing.
I’m 34. When I was in college I was introduced to a friend of a friend from Youngstown. He was exactly the same age as me and attending Notre Dame. He’s now the President and CEO of the San Francisco 49ers, Jed York. Talk about feeling like an underachiever.
I am almost six years older than that punk kid.
You want to feel old? I was on a business trip with a younger colleague. She brought her mother along for the trip. I heard it was her mother’s birthday. so I took them both out to dinner. At dessert, her mother mentioned her age.
Her furgling mother was younger than I was.
Now get off my lawn.
Regards,
Shodan