I mean I had a moment where I was sitting there on the couch watching I think it was an Olympic soccer and I had an ice pack strapped onto each hip and I'm sitting there watching the British men's team play and they announced that the captain was 36 and I was like wait a minute I'm 33 how is that guy playing soccer at this level and like I can't play a 45 minute once a week coed game without getting hurt. Welcome to how to. I'm Carvo Wallace. You know, it's been rumored that many, many highly

paid, highly conditioned elite professional athletes listen to our show. And if that's you you let me say straight away we appreciate your

listenership and we would love to receive some tickets but right now I want to

put you aside for a second and talk to the recreational athletes.

You know who you are, the Park League softballers, the pickleballed posse, the 5K runners who are

really sure you can do it 10k.

If that's you, I want you to listen to me when I say,

no matter how old you are right now,

you're going to keep getting older.

And as an athlete's body ages, it increasingly does not like surprises.

Protection breaks down and time runs out.

Down goes Rogers and the sack for Leonard Floyd a loss of 10 on the play and hopefully

The Jets are thinking that's the only loss on that play that's the sound of NFL quarterback Aaron Rogers tearing his Achilles tendon in the first

game of the 2023 season. At 39 years old Rogers was the league's oldest active player and his season was already over.

Then, just days later, the same thing happened to a different aging athlete. He wasn't quite as famous as Aaron Rogers, but in a sense he's

our quarterback here at how to. I'm Derek and I feel like I should just we should just

be full disclosure. I do work on this show.

You might recognize Derek's name from the credits at the end of each episode.

He's one of our producers and while you may not have heard about his injury on ESPN, it was just as serious as the one suffered by

Aaron Rogers, because a torn Achilles is no joke.

I was just playing in one of my pickup basketball games, and it's one of those things where I literally just like I had the ball and I stepped back to plant my right foot and I just felt something pop and kind of knew instantly what had happened and just sort of crumpled to the ground and

ended up going to the ER and it was a whole thing and this comes on the heels, no pun intended,

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