Things that make you feel old

There’s a difference between the goat and the GOAT.

 

Don't worry guys, GOAT has only been a thing for like 40, 45 years.

 

Maurice Greene was the first one I remember using it. But like the other old folks, I still have a hard time with that one.

 

Earl Manigault - Wikipedia

It's definitely at least been popular with the "kids" since HBO did a biopic about 20 years ago.

 

I was watching some old football games on videocassette(!) over the holidays and noticed the pistol firing to signal the end of each quarter.
I did some research into the topic for my own knowledge and the practice ended sometime in the mid-1980s.
It is one of those quaint things.

 

I was assigned to cover a high school basketball game in about 1973. It never dawned on me until I got there that one of the players on the team I was covering was the little brother of my best friend. I knew this kid since he was 7. He he proceeds to screw up the game, a sure victory. Then it goes OT and we wins it. I wrote something like he cost his team a victory in regulation, then won it 3 minutes later. The desk wrote the headline: (He) Won't Be The Goat.
That kid is now 63 and he still has it in his scrapbook.

 

One of our track coaches got arrested for brandishing a gun on campus. It was a starter's pistol.

 

"YouTube star"

 

Makes me cringe every time I hear it

 

No toys in cereal boxes.
I was waiting for one to tumble out last week and nothing.
I suppose this qualifies as #FirstWorldProblem, as well.

 

And crappy prizes in Cracker Jacks. No more magnifiers or whistles, just mostly wet and stick tattoos.