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  4. Random 2024 Bengals related stuff

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    1 hour ago, Le Tigre said:

    Nothing I love more than footy. I wish I had come across it when younger, but the sport was virtually unknown around my parts in the late ‘60’s/early ‘70’s. Good on ya for still doing it.
     

    Glad I did find golf, though. While not an aerobic sort of thing, it’s still a nice 3-4 mile walk over hill and dale a few times a week 


    Soccer was also “unknown” when I grew up in central Indiana.  I basically just ran track and cross-country in high school.
     

    When my now 39-year-old son was 6, my wife signed him up for soccer…and that was the first time I had ever even touched a soccer ball.  I helped out (bench babysitter) with his team a few seasons.  
     

    When my daughter turned 6, I figured that I knew enough to coach 6- and 7-year-old girls, so I signed up to coach her team.  Quite the shock when I received my roster…and they had instead given me my son’s team of 10- and 11-year-old boys.  So I read a lot of books…and ended up with a great bunch of boys…and they went 7-2-1 (W-L-D) with a coach that didn’t know what he was doing.  With what I know now, I think I could take that team to 10-0.

     

    After a few seasons of coaching, I thought that it looked like fun and I would like to try it.  I reached out to an over-30 coed league in Loveland and ended up getting invited to sub for a team in a make-up game.  So, at the age of 42, I played my first game of soccer.  I had a blast.  I ended up helping to create a new over-30 coed team (A Few Gray Hares) and have been playing ever since.  
     

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    I now run a 16-team Over-40 outdoor league in the spring and in the fall.  

     

    I just love this sport.  ⚽️

     

    [Apologies for the non-Bengals content]
     

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  5. Random 2024 Bengals related stuff

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    1 hour ago, Le Tigre said:

    That’s a sad account. As the years have edged on, I have kept a sober view of high-exertion activities. I’m not 20..or even 40 any longer. Trying to compete in something like sand volleyball, is not in the best interest. Or pickup basketball. I mean, I golf a lot—walking—but that isn’t sprinting or that sort of thing. 
     

    Not totally washed, and still give some of the old activities a go periodically. As the late, great, Toby Keith said: “I ain’t as good as I once was…but I’m as good once as I ever was”


    I will turn 70 in December and just love playing soccer, including in tournaments around the country.  I may very well drop dead while playing, but at least I will be doing something I love.  ⚽️

     

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  19. Bengals announce new turf for Paycor Stadium

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    3 minutes ago, Griever said:

    Man did we need new turf though, woof

     

     

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    That’s mostly the rubber pellets that make it look bad.  Looks like they didn’t bother grooming the field…which I would imagine would require a re-painting.  This could also have been after a heavy rain, as the rubber pellets will float to the top.  
     

    I wonder if this might still be an issue with the new turf.

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