It’s mid-July. It’s too hot, my neighbor isn’t keeping his lawn in shape, they don’t make smart summer movies anymore, and all these kids who are off school should be out doing something productive instead of staring at screens all day.
In related news, I am old.
How old? Old enough to have a bunch of opinions about how things I miss from the ancient days. And you’re going to hear a few of them right now, because it’s time for the return of Let’s Get Old, the column where I (blows out entire lumbar region by sneezing wrong) ah you’ll figure it out.
To be clear, this isn’t even the typical “old man yells at cloud” thing where I think things were better back then. I’ll fully acknowledge that the NHL and the sport of hockey have improved over the decades. But that doesn’t mean I can’t miss stuff like faceoffs in random locations and officials climbing the glass, or baggy nets and big moments punctuated by flash photography. Was it better back then? Not really, but also sort of, which is the type of confusion you should expect from an old man like me.
Today, we’re going to focus on the offseason. Here are five things that my old and deteriorating sports fan brain misses about who things used to work.
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