Talking Shit And Taking 40U Football This Seriously Should Be Encouraged By Society, Not Dunked On
There comes a time in every athlete's life when you're supposed to "give up the dream". For most of us, it's after high school. Maybe you were good enough to play a sport in college, so you were able to squeeze a few extra years out of your competitive life. For the truly special athletes out there who can go on and play some form of professional sports, you get to live the life until you're about 30 or so.
No matter what, the "dream" always comes to an end at some point. People expect you to stop playing, put on a suit, and go to work for the rest of your life. Your competitive life is over at 18-22 years old. You still have so many more years to live, but everybody thinks its a joke for you to continue to play sports competitively.
And then you wonder why so many dudes are so miserable in the middle of their life. You just wake up, get ready for work, commute to work, deal with bullshit at work all day, go home, eat some dinner, maybe treat yourself to a little night cap, call it a day and start all over the next day. There's nowhere to release the tension. There's no outlet to get that competitive fire out of your belly. You were born to be a ball player, but nobody thinks you should be able to play ball anymore.
Maybe, just maybe, 40u football is a good thing. Maybe it's better for these dudes to all be taking this so seriously, and talking shit to each other during the game than doing it out randomly in public. You get a chance to go out there and hit somebody in a game, so you don't have to hit somebody in public. You're old, washed up, already wake up every morning with excruciating back pain. There's no reason for you to be playing the game still, and that's the point. You're not playing for any reason besides the fact that you love the game, and can't quit it.
P.S. -- This is exactly why god invented pickleball. Great way to get the competitive juices going, and you can play until you're 80-years-old without anybody batting an eye.