VERY REAL - 37-Year Bloggers Need To Stop Playing Competitive Sports For The Sake Of Ruptured Achilles Everywhere

Contrary to Jeff D. Lowe and Nicky Clicky, this is very real. This was not a clever ploy to get Mark Titus in the game and have Brandon Walker hit a jumper over him. I would never do such a thing. A man of honor if you will. Nope, what I realized is I'm very much just old, out of shape and should be stopped from competitive sports. This is what happens. 

You may be wondering what happened? I don't know. I took a step, a step I took thousands upon thousands of times in my life before and felt someone hit me in the back of the leg with a ball. That's why you see me look around. Nope, again, old, fat, bald and out of shape. Maybe I thought I was 22 again and still had that first quick step. Maybe I saw Brandon Walker guarding me and knew even a slow first step would get past him. Whatever it might be, consider this a warning for everyone else. 

Why do I say this? Because I'm supposed to fly to Ireland a week from tomorrow. Let me be more clear, I fly to Ireland for a trip with 31 other guys to play 6 rounds of golf for the 50th anniversary of my family golf tournament. Now I'm hoping for a Rookie of the Year scenario. Maybe I can just hit bombs with my drive again now that I have one ankle? I'll even take the one-leg Tiger 80s over there. I don't care! I will be golfing. Because I'm a golf guy, that's where you see the strength to walk off an injury. You don't see that from someone weaker than a man determined to golf places like Ballybunion, Dooks, Old Head, Waterville and Tralee. 

So consider this blog 1) a warning to anyone trying to play a sport after a couple years off to not do it and 2) Barstool talking Barstool. I should have faked an injury though, where was Nicky and Jeff to tell me to do that earlier?