Afraid of growing old?...
 

...Not any more...Honestly, maybe it's just the Makers Mark, but, this is just...Wow (in a good way)

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/443799...lege_football/

Grandchildren will watch Moore, 61, kick for Faulkner (Ala.) University on Saturday

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updated 8:08 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - When the recession booted Alan Moore out of a 37-year career in civil construction, he kicked back — by becoming a kicker for an Alabama college football team at age 61.

On Saturday, Moore, affectionately referred to as "Pops" by his Faulkner University teammates, will get his first chance to kick in public for the small Christian school during a squad scrimmage in Montgomery. Four of his five grandchildren will be there to watch.

"I came back to play football," he told Reuters. "I know I can do it."


Back in his glory year of 1968, Moore kicked for a national title for Holmes Community College in Goodman, Mississippi. He had taken up the position in high school, thrilling his mother by kicking an extra point. The late Agnes Moore called it "the prettiest play she had ever seen."

"My momma wanted me to kick a football," he said.


Vietnam vet plays on college football team

Sixty-one-year-old Vietnam veteran Alan Moore is the new place kicker for the Faulkner University Eagles. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

But Moore's football career ended early in 1969 with the Vietnam War draft looming over his head. He and a buddy joined the Army thinking they could choose where they served.

Instead, he spent 10 months in a bunker, and his buddy was shot and paralyzed. Moore came home to work and raise a family, with college by then a distant dream.

He started practicing football again after he was laid off in 2009.

"When I walked into Dick's Sporting Goods store, it was the first football I had touched in 40 years," Moore said.

While his contemporaries laughed, he gained enough skill to receive interest from three colleges, he said. He chose Faulkner, which gave him a small football scholarship, because "they made me feel like family." The school has 830 undergraduates in Montgomery as well as a law school and adult students, according to its website.

It wasn't really the football career Moore said he was looking to finish. Instead, he decided to return to college and the game to inspire young people to never give up.

Nope.
I'm afraid of NOT growing old.
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Mac

If you reach the point where you don't wish to live any longer, there are innumerable ways you can end your own life.
Please try not to take anyone with you or leave too big a mess behind for someone else to have to clean up.

And please don't do it in the presence of children, you might traumatize them.



Mac

I wont...I would take a bottle of sleeping pills.

Thank you for being so considerate.
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p.s.- Did I mention that I have a new primary care doctor?
Jack Kevorkian.



Mac

Afraid of growing old? Nope...beats being only 19, and lying dead in a rice paddy...

I thought he died???

Time to look for another one............

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, does anyone??

i missed this little gem. indeed sir, you are more then correct.

as one ages,,it comes to mind, but everyday is just one day, and if you're just in the "be here now" mode, no i don't either.

This is an experience we will all share, the reality of which becomes more vivid as we age...........

When I was in my teens & twenties it never crossed my mind but I have pondered it from time to time, what I wanna leave & what is precious to me that no one will want etc..........

But I just thought of something......... (posterity??)

I have a young friend @ work that is a bit of a philosopher... He is actually still in school & majoring in political science & philosophy... Very bright & knowing much more than I did @ his age........

I enjoy talking w/ him a lot & we shared a couple Emails last night & I was going over some of his essays.......

His parents are from Central America so he comes @ politics/philosophy from a bit of a different approach & has read several authors from South America I am not really familiar w/...........

But I have introduced him to Chomsky & especially Zinn & I have really seen his eyes opening to the truth of what politics is, human interaction & perhaps the motives behind them on these grandeur scales.....

I thought about death enough to make a video to be played at my funeral.

My wife asked me when am I going to quit smoking.
I told her; "After they close the lid on my casket."
She replied; "The joke's on you. I'm having you cremated."

One last smoke for Mac.
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Mac

I'm scared to death of growing old. Just being around really old people makes me nervous as it brings me too close to the thought of being old myself and puts me in touch with my own pending mortality...

I've often wondered why Christians fear death more than atheist...dying is part of life, the cycle of returning back to the stardust from whence we came to be lost forever in time. And, the good part of death is not knowing you're dead.

that is correct le metis...being dead must be like the exact moment one falls asleep. You never remember it.

I recall hearing about all those ppl that died, or almost died or whatever & I don't recall any of them saying that????

I simply hope they are wrong, crazy or it was unique only to them....

cotton,
Be patient. You'll find out soon enough.


Mac