YOU KNOW YOU’RE TOO OLD WHEN…..

After watching The Who’s 65-year-old Roger Daltrey and 64-year-old Pete Townsend play at the halftime show of last night’s Super Bowl, I wondered when are you really too old to rock ‘n roll?  Whatever happened to aging gracefully in America?  We baby boomers seem desperate to hang onto our youth no matter how embarrassing we look to others.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre is another perfect example of this phenomena.  Just because you can play football at age 40 doesn’t mean you should.  40-year-old bones and joints just don’t react as well to being hit by a 300-pound man running at full speed as they did when you were 20.

Wearing leather pants is something else that needs an age limit.  Just because you can fit into a pair of leather pants doesn’t mean you look right wearing them.  There are also lots of older women who seem to lost track of the fact they are no longer 20-somethings and still insist on wearing short, tight clothing that was on the edge of being appropriate to wear even when they were in their 20’s.

This brings to mind the topic, “Face It! You’re Too Old To Do That Anymore.” Make your own list of the things you see people do that they are really too old to pull off.  Then open up the phones and solicit your audience for “The Most Inappropriate Age-Appropriate Behavior You’ve Ever Seen.” Pick the worst age-appropriate violation to use as resolution to this topic.

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February 8th, 2010 | Tags: Brette Farve, The Who | Category: Daily Blog