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For 36 years I have gotten together with grade school and high school friends for superbowl sunday. There were about eight of us in the beginning and we are now down to 6 or 7 depending on if someone is traveling on business. We used to play a $100 poverty poker game which means if you lose all your money you still play, and you can never lose over $100. In the good times between 11-and 1am we would end the poverty game and play some higher stakes.....much higher.
Now one person is a civil engineer who made six figures his whole career, but has been supporting his wife with MS on half salary for five years, another was a director of a school, and was laid off for two years, another is a mechanical engineer and a sales agent for an industrial filter system, who builds his territory up only to face age discrimination and division of his book of sale to younger sales people as he changes jobs, builds his book of sale, and again has them take his territory and divide it with young people.......the bottom line is that babyboomers who were kicking asz get together they are the walking wounded, yet when we play a board game like acquire in place of poker because some among us no longer can lose a hundred bucks, we revert back to those 6th and 7th graders so many years ago, and cherish the bonds of friendship which are renewed each and every superbowl. I have turned down great tickets to the actual superbowl to travel and participate in our traditional celebration, and I will continue to do the same until like all good things it comes to an end.
Now one person is a civil engineer who made six figures his whole career, but has been supporting his wife with MS on half salary for five years, another was a director of a school, and was laid off for two years, another is a mechanical engineer and a sales agent for an industrial filter system, who builds his territory up only to face age discrimination and division of his book of sale to younger sales people as he changes jobs, builds his book of sale, and again has them take his territory and divide it with young people.......the bottom line is that babyboomers who were kicking asz get together they are the walking wounded, yet when we play a board game like acquire in place of poker because some among us no longer can lose a hundred bucks, we revert back to those 6th and 7th graders so many years ago, and cherish the bonds of friendship which are renewed each and every superbowl. I have turned down great tickets to the actual superbowl to travel and participate in our traditional celebration, and I will continue to do the same until like all good things it comes to an end.
