Originally Posted by pan6467

QFT you understand, I see. And yes, in time you will wax nostalgic about the players you listed but now also about the Mannings, and TO and Randy Moss, Federer, and so on.

Nostalgia happens. If you ever watched the old Bob Costas show after Letterman on NBC in the 80's when he'd have on Billy Crystal or Meat Loaf.. they'd always talk about players from their youth. Back when Larry King did overnight syndicated radio he'd talk about the 40', 50's and 60's NY teams. "Old bitter fucking farts, get over it and yourselves," I'd say.

Nostalgia just happens. Me it'll be the Big Red Machine, the 90's Indians, the Cardiac Kids, Elway beating Kosar's Browns 2 years in a row, the drive and the fumble. It'll be how we had Price, Daugherty, Nance, Ehlo, Williams and could never beat that guy Jordan...... There were the Connors, McEnroe, Borg, matches. The Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman arguments and later Payne Stewart, John Daly, Paul Azinger arguments with friends on the golf course.

I think the big part is that sports and your idea of the game stems from childhood and a little later. Then you get a family of your own, you work, you find other ways of entertainment and look back and see those players of your youth as something great because it helps remind you of that youth and the dreams and the less stressful parts of your life.... it's just a theory and an opinion of mine. May have merit, may not. For me, personally it does, and that's all I can truly speak on, my personal experiences and beliefs.

I also believe that this is why the Rolling Stones, Eagles, McCartney, Van Halen and to lesser degrees Heart, Journey, Tom Petty and so on still sell out or have huge crowds... even though their voices, their stamina and the players maybe not as great as they were in their prime... alot of it is nostalgia.

People as they get older think the newer music sucks.... my grandparents were Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra fans who liked a little 50's and 60's rock because they were exposed to it by my parents. With my parents, they liked the 60's and 70's music a little 80's because they had to but not really. Then there's me I like the 60's through mid 90's music and a little of today's but it's not like it was back in the day.

Nostalgia.... sports, music, life in general..... we grow up, get jobs, have responsibilities and new interests and when we look around and see those younger than us enjoying their youth.... we have to talk about ours and argue how our music, teams, players, tv shows, politics and so on were better because that was our youth.... that was when we had hopes and dreams and everything was new {in those arenas}. It doesn't mean they were better, or worse or even much different.... it just means that nostalgia reminds us of when times were simpler for us personally.

It's the way some who are rich may remember when they were poor and their marriages were "better". Or the way some feel that while they ma have the job they worked years to get, in some ways they were better off back in the day.

And some will understand with what I am saying and some will argue and say they will never be that way.... I argued I would never be nostalgic, but I found as I got closer to 40 and had my health scare, a marriage followed very fastly with a divorce, a remarriage, seeing a son that was 11 yrs old for the first time and then having him tell me to fuck off, losing my recovery dog, going to school and then losing my financial aid and working with addicts... all within the last 5 years... I'm nostalgic for the old days that seemed better.... Were they really? Probably not. I just had different problems then.

"Old bitter fucking farts, get over it and yourself"