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That sounds brutal. Mine are 19 and 16 and I am 51. I can't imagine them being that young at this stage of my life.
Nah, it’s fantastic. My 20s and 30s were great but no place for kids. We’re all on different timelines.
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That sounds brutal. Mine are 19 and 16 and I am 51. I can't imagine them being that young at this stage of my life.
Nice to meet you Abraham. Is your son named Isaac?Come on, man...I've been a fan since 1971 and have a 10 yr old son...
I think the Saints are as fan-friendly as just about any team. The relationship with the fans is part of the team culture. Either this is false, or it just wasn't the right time for autographs. The idea that Saints players are intentionally teasing children with hopes of autographs only to then laugh at them and eat snowballs is pretty outlandish IMO.
52 and mine are 11 & 5That sounds brutal. Mine are 19 and 16 and I am 51. I can't imagine them being that young at this stage of my life.
52 and mine are 11 & 5
While I obviously don’t have the same energy I would have in my 20s, it was much easier for me to give my ego over to them
I feel like I would have had a harder time sharing/needing ‘my time’ than I do now
Unless it's understood that I would turn around and try to profit from the signature, I absolutely don't see the appeal of placing a strong importance on getting someone to scribble their name on something of mine.
For a kid it makes much more sense............their life priorities are different and they look up to these athletes at that moment. But once you get in your adult years....and you're either the same age as, or older than, many of these players.....it should start to feel a bit silly.
52 and mine are 11 & 5
While I obviously don’t have the same energy I would have in my 20s, it was much easier for me to give my ego over to them
I feel like I would have had a harder time sharing/needing ‘my time’ than I do now
He opens the comments with a line about his very large memorabilia collection. But it's not about that? Yeah, right. I don't know what happened but he sounds like one of those adults who will shamelessly yap at players and reach over the heads of children to get autographs.
Yep, that’s how I felt about some of these older people out there. To me the autograph signing is about the kids I couldn’t stand seeing these old people jump in front of a kid trying to get their memorabilia signed, and it happened the day I went Saturday.
2 things bug me with the post other than the fact i doubt it happened
1. dude wrote a huge paragraph but couldn't spell out RIGHT in the first sentence.
2. it's a pet peeve of mine when people feel they have justify and say how long they've been a fan when they say they're a huge fan.
also, tom dempsey last played for the saints in 1970, which puts this guy at least 49 years old and then he would've been a newborn, not a "die hard fan". so add some years, he'd be like mid 50's. so wouldnt his "kids" likely be in their 20s/30s. pretty sure they can live without an autograph.
You say that now but just wait in 10 years when you are in your 60's and your youngest is in the deep moody territory that is the teenage years and tell me if you feel the same....lol
I was there on 8/3.
Being completely objective here, this kind-of happened in that the main stands got no signatures (at least that I saw). Our kids were bummed too, but not overly upset or anything. He/she is being a little dramatic and entitled.
They were stretching out. All lined up parallel to the stands about half way across the field (left to right, not length-wise). They stretched all the way down to the stands, pretty slowly, and then they turned around. Some folks in the end-zone got a few signatures from the QBs, as well as the fancy seats over by the snowball truck (we did laugh because we saw several team members hit up the snowball truck). But they didn't sign anything in the main stands. And it kinda felt like they were going to do signatures, but who knows. I didn't hear any team members laugh at kids though - that seems silly.