The AARPire Strikes Back

Is it a fallacy that men grow wise with age?

If 40 is the old age of youth, and 50 is the youth of old age; then 60 is.... well 60 is just plain old. In the Hebrew bible, Methuselah (Noah's grandfather) lives to be 969 years old, dying conveniently a week before the great flood. Now while 969 years is incomprehensible, no one in the DelFL believes that it would take Jeff (who turned 60 this year) that many years to make the Playoffs. In fact, it may very well be this season.

Fantasy Football has so far been a young man's game. No one, at the age of 30 or older, has won the Brown Jacket (0 jackets in 32 attempts). Just like movie theater tickets and cups of coffee at Denny's, the DelFL's greying members have been discounted by their youthful competitors. But this disrespect of elders could come back to haunt the incredulous youth. Beware of the late bloomers. Remember, Henry Ford was 45 when he created the Model T, Darwin didn't write his 'On the Origin of Species' until he was 50 and Colonel Sanders didn't sell his first franchise until 65.

Experience should be an asset. Jeff and Warren, #1 & #3 respectively in the Power Rankings, were alive when Eisenhower was President. They experienced the 60's, as much as Millie let them. The 70's, well that decade is a little hazy for them to recall. But they definitely remember the 80's, 90's and this millennium. They have been alive during Lombardi's Packers, Trump's Generals, Ditka's Bears, Luck's Galaxy, Randall Cunningham's Veterans Stadium and Scott Mitchell's Silverdome. Jeff and Warren's football experience is unmatchable amongst their DelFL peers. But can they use this experience to their advantage? Or will their season end earlier than an Early Bird dinner at Sara Bay?