No hot water in showers after game NYG @ WAS…

[LabattBlue]

16 minutes ago, ProcessImproverMan said:

I grew up in a rural small snowbelt WNY town and had to walk about a mile up my family's  stone drive way (wooded drive way) to the bus stop and stand there in numerous snow storms for anywhere from 10 minutes to 40 minutes (bus driver was often late in the winter and drove like a maniac) due to my school never closing during a snow storm (sat on a bus for 3 hours one morning because we got stuck in the snow during a storm). There was no waiting inside for the bus to come and then walking out (like I see kids doing now)...

 

So yes soft generation now a days....

There has to be a lot more between this and cold showers in Russia.  Can’t wait for you to fill in the blanks. 😂

[RiotAct]

have you SEEN utility costs recently?!?!?

18 minutes ago, BillsShredder83 said:

Fair, flip side is a billionaire POS treated that stadium like a slumlord in a pretty ritzy area. See the railing collapse last year?

yeah, if I recall correctly the unlucky fans almost fell directly on top of Jalen Hurts as he was starting to walk up the tunnel.

[Draconator]

58 minutes ago, ProcessImproverMan said:

I just don't feel bad about people who make millions of dollars who had to deal with a rare cold shower when many many people lack such monetary privileges and deal with similar or worse conditions....Older generations of football players dealt with worse for much less pay if you read accounts from NFL history.....I still love football but the league has gotten soft since the 70s-90s.....Today's generation of NFL players are the most pampered out of all generations and something like this wouldn't have been a story decades ago (think Ronnie Lott who chopped off part of a limb to play or Emmitt Smith who played with a separated shoulder or Favre who played with numerous broken limbs and concussions would have complained about cold water? No lol)

[WotAGuy]

1 hour ago, ProcessImproverMan said:

I grew up in a rural small snowbelt WNY town and had to walk about a mile up my family's  stone drive way (wooded drive way) to the bus stop and stand there in numerous snow storms for anywhere from 10 minutes to 40 minutes (bus driver was often late in the winter and drove like a maniac) due to my school never closing during a snow storm (sat on a bus for 3 hours one morning because we got stuck in the snow during a storm). There was no waiting inside for the bus to come and then walking out (like I see kids doing now)...

 

So yes soft generation now a days....

Nowadays we build our houses closer to the road. 

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

I take cold showers from time to time - usually after sports.  But its tough when its like... 40 degrees outside to want to hop in there cold.  

[Juice_32]

2 hours ago, ProcessImproverMan said:

First world problems. When I lived overseas in Russia where I taught English, heat was turned off by the central heating authority in the summer (heat is pumped in to apartments by a central government location) so I had to take cold showers daily for months. The fact there's complaints about this from grown men is pure first world softness. America is going downhill. 

Speak for yourself. I lived in Antarctica for a while, and I had to take cold showers there. Your Russian cold showers are child’s play compared to what I had to take. Soft.

[Jauronimo]

7 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:

Nowadays we build our houses closer to the road. 

Back in the day you could buy a house and a few acres of land for a bushel of huckleberries.  We didn't have to live right on the street. A man could support a family of 13 on a single unskilled manufacturing wage.  People were much tougher back then.  This generation is soft.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Jauronimo

[ExiledInIllinois]

These kids don't shower after gym class anyway nowadays... Probably used to it.

 

😆 

[T master]

2 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:

They say the old rockpile used to have about 2 minutes of hot water for showers then cold the rest of the way. Guys would jog from the field to the showers ‘cause they knew this. Players these days are soft ! 

 

Hey maybe that's where the idea of sitting in tubs of ice came from maybe just maybe the rock pile was a innovative start to new technology when it comes to recovery in sports yah think ?? 

[Don Otreply]

1st world issues…, 

[Augie]

1 hour ago, teef said:

that's what you get for teaching english in russia.

 

He was probably giving away our secret handshakes, too! We need to keep some secrets! 

[Just in Atlanta]

2 hours ago, nucci said:

I used to walk barefoot to school in the snow.....

At least you had feet.

[JoeF]

2 hours ago, ProcessImproverMan said:

First world problems. When I lived overseas in Russia where I taught English, heat was turned off by the central heating authority in the summer (heat is pumped in to apartments by a central government location) so I had to take cold showers daily for months. The fact there's complaints about this from grown men is pure first world softness. America is going downhill. 

Saint Petersburg most of 1993 and 1994.  Working on the 1994 Goodwill Games for Turner Broadcasting. Same experience but I would do it again in a heartbeat.

[Royale with Cheese]

2 hours ago, ProcessImproverMan said:

First world problems. When I lived overseas in Russia where I taught English, heat was turned off by the central heating authority in the summer (heat is pumped in to apartments by a central government location) so I had to take cold showers daily for months. The fact there's complaints about this from grown men is pure first world softness. America is going downhill. 

Bro, the Japanese samurai used to kill themselves after losing a battle.  What’s the toughest thing you have done after losing at something?

[ProcessImproverMan]

11 minutes ago, JoeF said:

Saint Petersburg most of 1993 and 1994.  Working on the 1994 Goodwill Games for Turner Broadcasting. Same experience but I would do it again in a heartbeat.

I spent a month in St Petersburg during the white nights one year. Amazing experience coming back from a bar at 2am and it's not dark.....

 

I also lived in far eastern Siberia (Ulan-Ude) for about 7 months, including a few winter months, where I taught English privately (in laws out that way). Lake Baikal is amazing in the summer.  -50 degree winter weather is not ...

[Bob in STL]

2 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:

They say the old rockpile used to have about 2 minutes of hot water for showers then cold the rest of the way. Guys would jog from the field to the showers ‘cause they knew this. Players these days are soft ! 

Yes, that is a great Paul McGuire story, and true.  No time to talk to old buddies after a game in the Rockpile.  

[Gunsgoodtime]

Never had any for my whole childhood, you will have to excuse me for not having sympathy

[JoeF]

16 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

Bro, the Japanese samurai used to kill themselves after losing a battle.  What’s the toughest thing you have done after losing at something?

Drank some grain alcohol...mixed with Hawaiian Punch....Jesus, I am worthless....

[Sherlock Holmes]

3 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:

They say the old rockpile used to have about 2 minutes of hot water for showers then cold the rest of the way. Guys would jog from the field to the showers ‘cause they knew this. Players these days are soft ! 

Players those days were too, after the hot water ran out of course!

 

[GunnerBill]

2 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

Deriving your self worth from your ability to withstand cold temperatures as a child is an interesting perspective and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

I really, really don't.