Does this mean that those of us who grew up playing the 1980s "fender-bender-and-you-die" games are automatically better drivers?
Yet another reason why Gen X is the third coolest American generation behind the Founders and WWII.
Guys (and gals, I suspect) who play sports professionally HAVE to be able to do several things:
--Memorize mammoth playbooks/schemes.
--Be able to overcome their instinctual training to mentally react to split-second changes in the game (the ball's supposed to come over my left shoulder...whoops, better adjust, it's over my right on this deep post route). Call this applied calculus....they don't do the math, but their bodies do the calculations. And often come up with good answers.
--Know their bodies and physical limitations to almost the Nth degree.
--Understand supplementation and food and what vitamins/minerals do what (enter steroids/hgh HERE).
--Plus, they learn all this because of the desire to do THEIR work better. As much as you put into computers or engineering or drafting or whatever, they put into THEIR profession.
Of course, the above doesn't apply to that idiot linebacker wannabe who bullied you in high school and now is cleaning your gutter, but hey, give credit where it's due.
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Does this mean that those of us who grew up playing the 1980s "fender-bender-and-you-die" games are automatically better drivers? Yet another reason why Gen X is the third coolest American generation behind the Founders and WWII.
Here's a better one. Are we going to do it to STONE COLD Steve Austin?
That's no giant remnant of a cosmic collision...
That's an interesting way to get some Birkenstocks. I'm gonna start running around with my camera and start a shoe store!
Sorry. I'm guessing you meant "soul."
Guys (and gals, I suspect) who play sports professionally HAVE to be able to do several things: --Memorize mammoth playbooks/schemes. --Be able to overcome their instinctual training to mentally react to split-second changes in the game (the ball's supposed to come over my left shoulder...whoops, better adjust, it's over my right on this deep post route). Call this applied calculus....they don't do the math, but their bodies do the calculations. And often come up with good answers. --Know their bodies and physical limitations to almost the Nth degree. --Understand supplementation and food and what vitamins/minerals do what (enter steroids/hgh HERE). --Plus, they learn all this because of the desire to do THEIR work better. As much as you put into computers or engineering or drafting or whatever, they put into THEIR profession. Of course, the above doesn't apply to that idiot linebacker wannabe who bullied you in high school and now is cleaning your gutter, but hey, give credit where it's due.
Or fact Czeching.
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