I think there was another thread about this, but I'm too old to figure out how to use the search function here.


I got a PS5 last week. Started using it and after 2 days had to stop because I suffered an injury while playing. It comes with a free game built in called Astro's Playland. It's basically a platformer designed to show off all the features on the new controller. You have to do some physical movements with the controller but nothing too crazy. Have to tilt it and move it side to side in some sections. After a couple days of doing that my R elbow epicondylitis flared up and now I feel like I have to go get a cortisone shot.


Same thing happened months ago when I attempted to shoot a basketball for the first time in 20 years. Took a 3 pointer and immediately had searing pain in my elbow.


Getting old not fun. Especially when your body took a beating from sports over 40 years.

I keep telling myself I want to dunk on a 10' rim just one more time.

This is probably a really stupid goal.

You think it's bad now, wait until all your sports injuries become arthritic. And they will. There's no getting around it.

Oh it's already here. The benefit of having had 7 spine surgeries is you get to jump the line on getting your arthritis.

I need reading glasses

I need reading glasses

After I posted that, I got up to go to the little boys room and listen/felt that knee "click" with each movement.

I used to think that way. Now I would love to just go crazy on an 8.5 hoop with a mini ball like when I was a kid. I'd be wiped after 5 minutes.

Man, that's awful. I don't know how it works for you seeing how back pain is the worst, but for me, I kinda get used to the pain, but it's the constant reminder that your body parts just don't work anymore that's depressing. Like always grabbing the bannister on stairs and actually USING it to get up and down.

I'd struggle to dunk on a 6' hoop

I think there was another thread about this, but I'm too old to figure out how to use the search function here.


I got a PS5 last week. Started using it and after 2 days had to stop because I suffered an injury while playing. It comes with a free game built in called Astro's Playland. It's basically a platformer designed to show off all the features on the new controller. You have to do some physical movements with the controller but nothing too crazy. Have to tilt it and move it side to side in some sections. After a couple days of doing that my R elbow epicondylitis flared up and now I feel like I have to go get a cortisone shot.


Same thing happened months ago when I attempted to shoot a basketball for the first time in 20 years. Took a 3 pointer and immediately had searing pain in my elbow.


Getting old not fun. Especially when your body took a beating from sports over 40 years.

Haha, I spent an entire winter trying to dunk on a 10 foot rim. I was doing all sorts of exercises to increase my vertical. I could always get above the rim up to my wrist despite being a tad under 5'9", but I could never fully palm a basketball.

The high school gym had one of those vertical leap devices where you hit the thing to see how high you can jump. I struggled to get 9 1/4 a few years. I doubt I could even get to 9 feet anymore.

I used the line, "I have been coaching here longer than you have been alive" at practice last week for the first time.

My apprentice makes me feel old. I had to write a test for him and one question in the middle was intended to be a moment of levity to reduce stress. It was "what is the first rule of fight club" he wrote "never give up?". When I asked him wtf he said he never heard of fight club.
He never heard of Ray Charles.
In school he never had to write in cursive.
Shit like that.

My apprentice makes me feel old. I had to write a test for him and one question in the middle was intended to be a moment of levity to reduce stress. It was "what is the first rule of fight club" he wrote "never give up?". When I asked him wtf he said he never heard of fight club.

So, he's in fight club.