The Green Bay Packers open training camp in one week. Whoa!
Packer training begins during the two hottest weeks of the year (the last week in July and the first week in August). The combination of hot work environment (kiln fired products) and hot weather always caused Kohler to shut down those two weeks.
Grandson Dominic is wrapping up a summer long football sponsored training program. He weighs about 185 pounds. He indicated he would be trying to finish the program by lifting 400 pounds. I told him “don’t do that”! I was assured that he was well conditioned and supervised. Nothing to worry about. 400 pounds in a lot of weight. I know, I am old fashioned.
Here we go. I get to reminisce. While in high school, summers were spent playing baseball, working for the local Stokely Van Camp cannery (yes I had to earn money), and finally in mid-August, reporting for football practice. There was no “year around conditioning”. In my junior and senior years of high school, our football team was undefeated. My conclusion is that talent outweighs conditioning.
Grandson Mitchell is working out at the local health club. It includes some basketball, weight lifting and running. He like Dominic is “fit”. Because he is growing, he thinks he will someday be able to dunk a basketball. No family member that I know (may Alice’s brother Jerry) could dunk. Jerry was 6-5 but “husky”. If Mitchell can dunk with one hand (he needs to do it in front of me and the rim must measure 10 feet off the ground), I’ve agreed to pay him $5. To show you how stupid some of these conversations get, he wants $20 if he can dunk with two hands. Yeah, right! Hey who knows. He has some “tall genes” from his dad John.
The hot weather breaks tonight.
Love,
Dad