Big Ben's Night Out

Someone might say "there is Big Ben" and the rest of us would say, "uh, Ok" and that would be the end of it. We wouldn't spend one more second talking about it and I assure you I wouldn't walk out and tell people about it, either.

I'm too old for that shit and I've been around long enough that shit like that don't mean a damn thing.

I can't even understand why adult men walk around wearing the jersey of another adult man out in public. That is embarrassing.

I think there is nothing sadder than when I am in a bar and say the Penguins are on television and 3/4's of the adult males are standing around wearing jerseys that say 'Crosby' or "Malkin" or "Fleury" or something like that on the back.

Get a fucking life.

 

I wonder how much of the reason that girls go ga ga over sports celebrities is that they spent the first 18 years of their life learning from dads who wear Ben Roethlisberger jerseys and subconsciously impress upon their daughters that those men are of elevated stature.

 

Seriously -- wouldn't you be embarrassed if your kids ever saw you walking around in the jersey of another man?

 

Yes, that's not a lesson I want them to learn from me.

 

I really don't get this one, though, and have asked many people to explain it to me and have never got a reasonable explanation. But then, I just don't get the celeb-culture thing to begin with.

 

So now women want to fuck athletes because their dads wear those guys jerseys?

Please, someone, type something even more inane than that. I'm enjoying this thread too much not to want to tune back in.

 

I'd be embarrassed if my married father were ogling young women in a bar "from afar" that he has no chance with, knowing that somebody just like him would be doing the same to me within 5 years. I mean gag.

 

My mother is obsessed with celebrity news and gossip. It is her version of the front page of the New York Times. At Christmas, after she reeled off about 30 factoids about B-list celebrities, I asked her: "Mom, who is the secretary of state of the United States?" She didn't know. Then I asked her: "Mom, can you name one Supreme Court justice?" To her credit, she named Clarence Thomas.

It was all in good fun, but, still, I don't get it.

 

Who said anything about ogling? Those are your words, not mine.

 

Not necessarily just because they wear their jerseys, and you know that I didn't mean it that literally. You're smarter than that. The point is that daughters grow up with fathers who place athletes on a pedestal. What lesson do you think they are absorbing?

 

No.

But kids the idea that stars are something special and deserve to be treated differently from their parents.

 

So you don't think older married men ogle women? I'm fairly certain older, married women ogle young men as well. I think there is enough evidence on this site alone.