Am I getting soft in my old age?

[Mark Padgett]

I definitely am getting old. I saw a ref buddy of mine at the grocery store this morning. We are both working the same fall kids rec league, although we haven't been scheduled together yet this season. We have worked lots of games together over the years, though. He told me that last spring, when we worked a 5th grade boys game together, he figured out that, assuming the boys were no older than 12, the combined ages of the two of us was a higher number than the combined ages of all 10 starters in the game! Knowing how old both of us are, I thought about it and he's right! Man - I am old.