football or basketball pools
Posted By: ideas on 2009-04-25
In Reply to: Anyone have any suggestions for meeting nice fellows more middle aged. I have tried - PAMT
Get involved in a football or basketball pool with one of your friends. They generally meet in bars to pick teams, but then you meet some super nice guys (our age) and they love it when a woman loves sports. I am married but have met some great guys who I have introduced to my friends. Also, go to ball games in your town. Agree with the golf course, as well.
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Isn't that what they use in swimming pools? Very rough on the feet.
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good for him - we non-AI, non-basketball fans exist....
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Well, 70s here in the south. Boys outside all day playing basketball sm
haven't seen snow in years and would love a little reprieve from the HEAT!
Yep, he plays basketball, paint ball, and wrestles.
football
Football practice is very tough, for one thing because it is so hot. . As for not seeing well, my daughter had a friend who was legally blind who was very good on the football team - he was the kicker - he even got a partial scholarship to college. . If he is not totally sure he wants to do it, maybe he could watch the practices and/or talk to some of the kids doing it and think about doing it next year.
I would if I liked football!
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I agree. He will probably end up without a job come football season..sm
Seems like the new NFL commissioner is coming down hard on these players. Lots of them already suspended for up to 1/2 the season for drugs. Michael Vick should be without his NFL career or any endorsements. And with his millions I think his fine should be way more than the 350,000 they are talking! I think they should make him give some of those millions to the Humane Society and other highly recongnized animal programs.
Can a kid with really bad eyesight play football?
My boy, Eddie, is seven years old. He has retinitis pigmentosa and gradually worsening decreasing vision. His vision without glasses is 20/200 and best corrected is 20/60. He does pretty well with baseball, especially after he had the bilateral rectus recession surgery and now both eyes are working together.
Tomorrow, however, is supposed to be football sign-ups, and I've been going back and forth about getting him involved or not. He's not all the way sure if he wants to do it either. I talked to some moms today, and they explained to me how grueling this five-day course of "conditioning" is. They described to me that most kids throw up from being overworked and go home crying. Doesn't sound like the best way for me to spend $45. He's not the toughest kid on the block, or any block for that matter, and I really don't know which way to go here. Any advice, football moms?
Anyone interested in ALW broadway plays or NFL football?
As far as NFL, I have been, and always will be, a Minnesota Vikings fan. They have broken my heart so many times but I've been a fan 35 years now. I grew up about 90 minutes south of Cleveland and have never even been to MN. But I loved the color purple, the Purple People Eaters, Frank Tarkenton, Matt Blair, Chuck Foreman, etc. It's my second longest relationship (my family being my first - LOL).
As for Andrew-Lloyd Webber plays, I know every word to every song from Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, and Phantom. I also love A Chorus Line (not an ALW play). I've seen it twice live and cried both times. Most of the dancers' stories are just so sad. "At The Ballet" is my favorite. Here's a youtube link. Watch the third girl who comes in during the song (Maggie - played by Kay Cole) and watch her belt out a high E like you've never heard. (around 4:54 into the song).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cPBWzsQ5zo
As a side note, the first girl who sings (Sheila) is played by Kelly Bishop who is on the Gilmore Girls (never saw show, just heard she was on it).
These people are the original Broadway cast.
I've seen Evita live several times as well as JSC. I actually got to see JCS with the original Jesus and Judas from the movie made in 1973 (Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson) at a performance in CT (Foxwoods Casino). Unfortunately, we lost Carl Anderson (Judas) to leukemia a few years back. There will never be another Judas like him, AFAIC. Godspeed, Carl.
So, anyone else an NFL or ALW/Broadway play fan? Anyone have any different Broadway plays they really like?
I knew it carried risks but was shocked about the story of the Notre Dame football coach who was
in a coma for 2 weeks after it. And watching the game Saturday he has not lost any weight. Not sure what happened to cause the coma but it scared me!
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