Herbie’s On Board

Dirty Jacket said:
Yom Kippur.

Also, as I have previously posted on here, I will rarely ever be able to make a 12PM kick with a 2 year old and 6 month pregnant wife.
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How does game time affect your ability to make it with kids that young? By noon I’ve been up 6 hours with my little ones so it feels like three. Trust me it’s only going to get harder.
 
gtg970g said:
How does game time affect your ability to make it with kids that young? By noon I’ve been up 6 hours with my little ones so it feels like three. Trust me it’s only going to get harder.
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I can make a night game, but I won't sacrifice spending time with my daughter to come to a game. Believe me, I love attending games in person. But I can't swing 12pm. For me to make a 12pm game, I'd have to leave by 10:30am. I won't get home til 4:30-5pm. There's no way my 2 year old is going to tolerate sitting in a stadium under the sun for the entire game, maybe 15 minutes.

People will complain about 7pm games too. It is what it is. You can set your priorities, these are mine. I get home late from work during the week, I lose 1 weekend every 7 being on call and not seeing my family at all during those weekends. My free time is limited so trade offs have to make sense.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
I can make a night game, but I won't sacrifice spending time with my daughter to come to a game. Believe me, I love attending games in person. But I can't swing 12pm. For me to make a 12pm game, I'd have to leave by 10:30am. I won't get home til 4:30-5pm. There's no way my 2 year old is going to tolerate sitting in a stadium under the sun for the entire game, maybe 15 minutes.

People will complain about 7pm games too. It is what it is. You can set your priorities, these are mine. I get home late from work during the week, I lose 1 weekend every 7 being on call and not seeing my family at all during those weekends. My free time is limited so trade offs have to make sense.
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Wtf?
We're all family men on here.
Virtue signal elsewhere.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
Which brings me to one of today's analysts on our game today. He referred to our team as a "nuisance" and that we are going be a pest to teams competing for the ACC. What the F.
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I heard that one. Piss poor commentating.
 
cyptomcat said:
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Meat sweats.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
I can make a night game, but I won't sacrifice spending time with my daughter to come to a game. Believe me, I love attending games in person. But I can't swing 12pm. For me to make a 12pm game, I'd have to leave by 10:30am. I won't get home til 4:30-5pm. There's no way my 2 year old is going to tolerate sitting in a stadium under the sun for the entire game, maybe 15 minutes.

People will complain about 7pm games too. It is what it is. You can set your priorities, these are mine. I get home late from work during the week, I lose 1 weekend every 7 being on call and not seeing my family at all during those weekends. My free time is limited so trade offs have to make sense.
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Give it a try. My 2 year old has had a great time at the past 2 home games and her trip yesterday was even worse. We left house at 6am, got to Tech around 10:30 and milled around until game, and she watched entire game with exception of a little halftime nap behind the stands. Got home last night at 9:30.

She cried as we were getting in the car in the deck because she wanted to stay at Tech.
 
Flywheel said:
Trashing someone for missing a game is also virtue signaling, just in the other direction.
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I wasn’t trashing anyone. Simply pointing out that as your kids get older it’s going to get harder to attend games, not easier. My son had a 1130 soccer game after which we drove to stadium where I dropped him and wife off at the gate, went to park, and ran to game.
 
JacketFan77 said:
Yes, let's pile all onto @Dirty Jacket because all of our families are the same and all of our children respond to things the exact same way :bigthumbup:
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I’m not piling on. I’m encouraging him to give something a chance. I was worried about taking my 2 year old before I did and discovered that she loves it.
 
18in32 said:
Wtf?
We're all family men on here.
Virtue signal elsewhere.
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That's not my point nor am I judging other people's decisions. I know my kid won't sit through a game and I'd rather be with her on Saturday morning/afternoon. She actually sat on the couch with me yesterday for a good bit of time to watch but we also had a tea party in her room with the game on pause. She also wanted to go outside and kick the soccer ball so that had to happen too. Same stuff everyone else is doing with their free time but i don't want to take her to the stadium only to have to leave during our first death march.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
I can make a night game, but I won't sacrifice spending time with my daughter to come to a game. Believe me, I love attending games in person. But I can't swing 12pm. For me to make a 12pm game, I'd have to leave by 10:30am. I won't get home til 4:30-5pm. There's no way my 2 year old is going to tolerate sitting in a stadium under the sun for the entire game, maybe 15 minutes.

People will complain about 7pm games too. It is what it is. You can set your priorities, these are mine. I get home late from work during the week, I lose 1 weekend every 7 being on call and not seeing my family at all during those weekends. My free time is limited so trade offs have to make sense.
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Your mind is right, keep it up!
 
Dirty Jacket said:
That's not my point nor am I judging other people's decisions. I know my kid won't sit through a game and I'd rather be with her on Saturday morning/afternoon. She actually sat on the couch with me yesterday for a good bit of time to watch but we also had a tea party in her room with the game on pause. She also wanted to go outside and kick the soccer ball so that had to happen too. Same stuff everyone else is doing with their free time but i don't want to take her to the stadium only to have to leave during our first death march.
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The fact your kids are a higher priority than GT football doesn't make it right.
 
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