G'day folks. Just sitting around the breakfast table today with my mum, dad and aunt, who is visiting from Canada at the moment when we got in to a discussion. I got to thinking, with players like Boaky, Pendlebury, even players back in the day like Dustin Fletchery and Boomer Harvey playing well in to their mid to late 30s and even 40 in Fletchers case, do you reckon it's possible one day there'll be a grandpa playing AFL?
Picture this scenario, a kid is getting himself in to some mischief and accidentally babies a girl up at 15 years old. Gets his life together, puts his head down and is drafted at 18 with a 3 year old. 17 years later, his son follows in his dad's footsteps and pops out a kid, dad's all of a sudden a 36 year old veteran grandfather going around for another year when his son is drafted at 18 with a kid himself.
My aunt said it's a proposterous thought and not worth pondering further but my parents both agreed it's entirely possible.
Do you think we are more likely to see this happen nowadays, or less likely to see it happen with the rapidly changing global socio-economic landscape?
Picture this scenario, a kid is getting himself in to some mischief and accidentally babies a girl up at 15 years old. Gets his life together, puts his head down and is drafted at 18 with a 3 year old. 17 years later, his son follows in his dad's footsteps and pops out a kid, dad's all of a sudden a 36 year old veteran grandfather going around for another year when his son is drafted at 18 with a kid himself.
My aunt said it's a proposterous thought and not worth pondering further but my parents both agreed it's entirely possible.
Do you think we are more likely to see this happen nowadays, or less likely to see it happen with the rapidly changing global socio-economic landscape?
