The great thing about being older...

[Abugabby]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

 

[Bleedinggoldandblack]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

Wait till your 66 , you won't remember we even had a game, just your diaper felt full.🤣

 

[depthcharge623]

That’s a good way to be.

Unfortunately its not a guarantee with age as I know several people in their 60s who will get extremely emotional when their team loses.

But I try to be like that because a loss can literally ruin my week if I let myself care too much.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

Right on. I was way too keyed up last night, like before taking the floor against my crosstown rival school (Dearborn Edsel Ford, in case you care). Happily morning brought perspective.

I am "only" 50 so hope to have your instant perspective beginning in October.

 

[Bleedinggoldandblack]

Right on. I was way too keyed up last night, like before taking the floor against my crosstown rival school (Dearborn Edsel Ford, in case you care). Happily morning brought perspective.

I am "only" 50 so hope to have your instant perspective beginning in October.

"There's Always Tomorrow" is written under my Purdue on my sweatshirt...

 

[ChoiceBeef]

I’ve included a clause in my will that my pallbearers wear Purdue shirts so I can be let down by Purdue one more time.

 

[BoilerDeac]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

Damn, took 50 years for that?

 

[boilernuke]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

Abu, nice take. I'm exactly at the same point in my emotional highs lows, and I'm in my mid 40s. Life is too full of other wonderful things to get too emotionally caught up into sports. Yes, they are fun, but should remain that way or why follow? About 10 years ago I got upset after a Purdue loss and I questioned myself because it was just a stupid thing to do, so that week I applied for school to pursue another graduate degree and finished the degree 3 years after that. Very emotionally level since then.

 

[BoilerDeac]

That’s a good way to be.

Unfortunately its not a guarantee with age as I know several people in their 60s who will get extremely emotional when their team loses.

But I try to be like that because a loss can literally ruin my week if I let myself care too much.

Those people should read more Carl Jung.

 

[depthcharge623]

Those people should read more Carl Jung.

What does Jung have to say about the Angry Fan archetype?

 

[Chi-Boiler]

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Does it happen right after you turn 50? Asking for a friend.

 

[BoilerDeac]

Those people should read more Carl Jung.

Because there’s a reason why they’re placing so much value on the performance of a basketball team.

There’s an unexplored part of their psyche/themselves they’ve suppressed, and part of that suppression is placing excessive value on a sports team, along with outsourcing a portion of their identity to that team/organization.

That’s why we get so upset when “our” team loses. Our identity is damaged, because we’ve outsourced our identity to something outside of who we really are.

 

[Longboat Boiler]

Right after 50? I'm just short of 80, so I forget......

 

[Steve83]

I’m 62. I used to act like a 5 year old after a loss. An IU loss would take a week to get over. Now I can see the big picture. Enjoy a good season. Enjoy each game. I just want to support a team that plays hard and grows over the season. This year was supposed to be a rebuilding one. We shouldn’t lay the disappointments of the past on this team. I love this team!

 

[Abugabby]

Damn, took 50 years for that?

40.

 

[Abugabby]

Abu, nice take. I'm exactly at the same point in my emotional highs lows, and I'm in my mid 40s. Life is too full of other wonderful things to get too emotionally caught up into sports. Yes, they are fun, but should remain that way or why follow? About 10 years ago I got upset after a Purdue loss and I questioned myself because it was just a stupid thing to do, so that week I applied for school to pursue another graduate degree and finished the degree 3 years after that. Very emotionally level since then.

I'm kind of a big time gamer...I love video games. There's a game called PUBG that I started playing 5 or 6 years ago and it's single elimination...you die and it's over. I reached #70 in the world at one point and climbed to the very top of the leaderboards for short stints.

I started teaming with a very mature young fella (he was 21 at the time) and he's not into sports at all. I would get all hyped over the PUBG games and get really mad when we lost and he was always just chilled out, like it didn't matter at all if we won. (he's pretty close to a pro-level player...way better than me with my old reflexes)

I was mildly miffed after a Purdue game and her was like "it doesn't really affect your life at all".
He's a wise young fella and helped me chill out. We still play the same game pretty much every day and I've learned to accept losing a bit more graciously.

I wish I had his perspective at that age.

 

[PaBoiler78]

That’s a good way to be.

Unfortunately its not a guarantee with age as I know several people in their 60s who will get extremely emotional when their team loses.

But I try to be like that because a loss can literally ruin my week if I let myself care too much.

it all depends on the loss to me, if I believe we are going to lose and lose it doesn't bother me as much

 

[22larry22]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

I just have to keep telling myself. It’s just a game. It’s just a game. It’s just a game.

 

[Abugabby]

Does it happen right after you turn 50? Asking for a friend.

It's gradual.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

Others, like @Cleanface ,
@Purdue Grad in Texas, and myself, deaden the pain with a steady drip of Boilerepherine.

 

[Schmedly_Whiplash]

Wait till your 66 , you won't remember we even had a game, just your diaper felt full.🤣

said the OBVIOUSLY not 66 y/o. (get a clue buddy)

 

[Bleedinggoldandblack]

said the OBVIOUSLY not 66 y/o. (get a clue buddy)

Sorry Whiplash I am 66 , Obviously clueless buddy 🤣

 

[purduedavie]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

Exactly, I tell people that Purdue was picked 5/6 in the Big Ten for a reason. This season has been a fun one, still not done. Next year I think Edey returns, expectations will be off the charts, future looks bright.

 

[purduedavie]

It's gradual.

I’m 53, that VA loss hurt for a week, that was a tough one. I brought my future wife out that night to watch with me, she couldn’t believe how much I acted like a baby lol

 

[Bleedinggoldandblack]

I’m 53, that VA loss hurt for a week, that was a tough one. I brought my future wife out that night to watch with me, she couldn’t believe how much I acted like a baby lol

And she she still married you must really have been the right girl....🤣

 

[boilernuke]

I'm kind of a big time gamer...I love video games. There's a game called PUBG that I started playing 5 or 6 years ago and it's single elimination...you die and it's over. I reached #70 in the world at one point and climbed to the very top of the leaderboards for short stints.

I started teaming with a very mature young fella (he was 21 at the time) and he's not into sports at all. I would get all hyped over the PUBG games and get really mad when we lost and he was always just chilled out, like it didn't matter at all if we won. (he's pretty close to a pro-level player...way better than me with my old reflexes)

I was mildly miffed after a Purdue game and her was like "it doesn't really affect your life at all".
He's a wise young fella and helped me chill out. We still play the same game pretty much every day and I've learned to accept losing a bit more graciously.

I wish I had his perspective at that age.

Some people are old souls. One of my kids is that way.

 

[Do Dah Day]

Exactly, I tell people that Purdue was picked 5/6 in the Big Ten for a reason. This season has been a fun one, still not done. Next year I think Edey returns, expectations will be off the charts, future looks bright.

If IU beating Purdue at home is the worst thing that happens to you this month ... Celebrate!

 

[Matt Tiger]

I think Dean Smith said it best when he said that if you treat every game like a matter of life and death,you are going to die many times.

 

[wallyboiler79]

I turn 66 this year and I figure that I am about the average age of posters here.

 

[2000-man]

It happened for me around 45, I'm 58 now. I use a metaphor about life being an "arc". When you near the top of the arc and you can see the end since your at the top looking down........you care about many things a lot less.

 

[PaBoiler78]

I think Dean Smith said it best when he said that if you treat every game like a matter of life and death,you are going to die many times.

the only guy to hold Michael Jordan under 20 points a game in college

 

[purduedavie]

And she she still married you must really have been the right girl....🤣

She’s 37, was an Indiana State cheerleader, not sure how I pulled that one off. She secretly taped me when Harper hit that 40 foot buzzer beater and posted it on Facebook, it was off the charts funny except for the language. I should post it on here, you folks would die laughing.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

She’s 37, was an Indiana State cheerleader, not sure how I pulled that one off. She secretly taped me when Harper hit that 40 foot buzzer beater and posted it on Facebook, it was off the charts funny except for the language. I should post it on here, you folks would die laughing.

I’m glad iPhones and social media weren’t around during my Purdue sports-rage days…

 

[indyogb]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

You're absolutely right.

I have kind of accepted our role as the "Cubs of the Big Ten" which makes it easier to handle disappointments.

When we lost to Wisconsin in the 2000 Elite Eight, I think I was down for several days. Truthfully, I still hate Wisconsin for it, but I don't take the games quite as seriously as I did when I was younger. In my 20s, Purdue basketball was almost like a religion for me.

 

[TX4GB]

I’m glad iPhones and social media weren’t around during my Purdue sports-rage days…

Ha, we walked around campus and wrote “Fire Fred (Akers)!” on the sidewalks in chalk.

 

[indyogb]

Ha, we walked around campus and wrote “Fire Fred (Akers)!” on the sidewalks in chalk.

My old sophomore roommate used to go on long rants about Jim Colletto. I reciprocated with long rants hating on the NCAA tournament.

 

[Schmedly_Whiplash]

Sorry Whiplash I am 66 , Obviously clueless buddy 🤣

wow, I'm 63 and I guess our expectations (and reality?) is much different.
To me, dIapers are an EIGHTY-SIX y/o thing.
Sorry, I thought a silly youngin making sport of young "old" people.

 

[BoilerTom90]

When I was a younger man I would be elated with the victories and crushed with the defeats. 10 years ago last night's game would have had me angry, depressed, upset...choose your adjective.

Now that I'm over 50 I am super stoked about the wins and just let the losses go.

Bad games happen. We're in a rebuilding year. We were ranked #1 for a good chunk of the season. We have ballers coming in and ballers on the roster. The future is bright.

I can relate... When Brees was the QB, after a couple of those gut wrenching losses to ND, I was wrecked. Now, I just let it go.

 

[purduedavie]

I’m glad iPhones and social media weren’t around during my Purdue sports-rage days…

This one was a quick 1 minute taping, she started when Purdue had the ball and Williams scored, I got up did a little foot shuffle and screamed come on D, as I count down the clock Harper hits that 40 footer, I lost it for about 15 seconds, it was funny, my buddies loved it. I was over it quickly, that Virginia game took a day or so, that was brutal!

 

[Bleedinggoldandblack]

Well not in diapers yet Whiplash, with that being said though not just a eighty year old thing , dear friend I know recently underwent prostate surgery for cancer and he wears them at 65. So each day we are healthy is a blessing as we crash and burn into our golden years.... 😄