Posts Tagged ‘I’m too young to feel old’

Doogie2K
Nov 12th, 2009
11:03AM UTC

This Made Me Feel Sad and Old

The scene: I’m at the Hitmen game yesterday, and two kids, maybe seven years old, are looking at the back of their Miikka Kiprusoff statue thing to see what other players are available.  They see that Shane Doan is available as both a Coyote and a Jet.  Recorded verbatim:

Kid #1: It’s the same guy, but he’s with a different team.
Kid #2: Who’s “Winnipeg Jets?”
Kid #1: I don’t know who Winnipeg Jets are.

Sadder still: the realization that the idols of my childhood were nearly all retired before these kids were even born.

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Doogie2K
Aug 17th, 2009
6:45PM UTC

I may jump on this bandwagon at some point…

…but for now, read Dan Tencer’s Five Reasons I Love Hockey, part of an ongoing series at Puck Daddy. It brings back a few memories of my own, but also kind of depresses me, because I’m pretty sure Dan and I are the same age, or at most a year a part, and he gets to chat with the Oilers for a living while I sit on my ass 300 km away and watch them on TV.

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