OT: BB robs the cradle!

[n1997y]

How old are you?

Long past living with my parents or asking their approval. They’ve been dead for decades. Been out in the world a long time. Last week I attended my 55th high school reunion. Do the math. So what?

How about you? How old are you?

 

[PP2]

Wow what a long off season …

What better way to pass it than indulge in drama like this?

 

[n1997y]

Right. I'm sure they'd be pissed to know their parents wouldn't be comfortable with them dating an AARP member.

Try looking at it this way:
You are an adult, mid twenties. You think you’re in love. Your parents disapprove, maybe because of age difference, maybe because of skin color, maybe because of religion, maybe because of bank balance. They try to control you. They take action to force you to follow their beliefs/feelings instead of your own. How do you react?

I can’t begin to count the number of folks I know, in their twenties, thirties, forties, maybe older, who are estranged from their parents because their parents disavowed them for following their own path.

It’s sad to see people who love their parents and have no contact with them because they were rejected by those parents when the parents chose their beliefs over their children.

 

[Kdo5]

He probably saw a textbook on deductive logic and wondered how he could use it to improve his football team. That seems much more likely than he saw a cute cheerleader and started grooming her right away, especially since he already had an apparently healthy romantic relationship.

Yep he saw the cute college student and thought “deductive reasoning, yes this will help my football team”. That’s all that was on his mind, of course.

 

[Bella*chick]

But when Cher does it the empowerment for women is inspiring…

Don’t put words in my mouth. When Cher or Madonna does it it’s just as embarrassing and cringeworthy as this is.

 

[Patjew]

I am 51. My 24 year old daughter recently told me I am not allowed to date anyone in their 30s (or younger). So that kinda stinks, but the rules are the rules.

 

[TheRainMaker]

This woman clearly has some physiological issues to date a 70 year old plus man. Flipping it around, there’s no ****ing way a 24 year man is going to be in a relationship with a 70+ year old woman. Men are not wired that way and are attracted to how a woman looks - and an old woman ain’t it.

The real question is, how are so many women are not grossed out being with a much older man?

 

[Stu Pidassle]

This woman clearly has some physiological issues to date a 70 year old plus man. Flipping it around, there’s no ****ing way a 24 year man is going to be in a relationship with a 70+ year old woman. Men are not wired that way and are attracted to how a woman looks - and an old woman ain’t it.

The real question is, how are so many women are not grossed out being with a much older man?

It depend$.

 

[Grogan14]

butes.

I am 51. My 24 year old daughter recently told me I am not allowed to date anyone in their 30s (or younger). So that kinda stinks, but the rules are the rules.

your daughter is wise beyond her years

 

[Grogan14]

This speaks to BB just not giving a crap what anyone else thinks.
This is who he is.
He does what he wants to and couldn’t care less how others view what he does.

This is how he has operated
As gm
In draft
With trades
With cuts
With the press
With his players
With Kraft
At NFL owners meeting
Resigning as jets coach on a napkin
Cutting Bernie Kosar
Letting TB12 walk in free agency

Usually I admired it. This time its cringe worthy

 

[XLIX]

Come on, XLIX, we all make bad relationship decisions. This transcends that.

How so? If he’s having fun and she’s having fun, more power to ‘em.

Is he abusing her? Did he get her pregnant and then disappear? Does he alienate her from friends and family? I’d say those types of relationship decisions (which are currently being made by countless 20-somethings all across the country) transcend this, not vice-versa.

My point is more about older adults and morality.

Society’s morals go a long way toward crafting law but there also comes a point where one must accept that in a free country, people can engage in behavior others find immoral.

 

[XLIX]

Lol so many posters on this thread obviously don’t have a single issue with those gross countdown clocks men joke about with attractive teen movie or TV stars. Like theOslen twins and Natalie Portman from back in the day.

“But-but the clock just said she turned 18! Yes she was seventeen but that was ten whole seconds ago! Free and clear! Never mind that I’m 62! Consenting adults! Cavemen! Biology!”

You are all GROSS.

Well now that you mention it, yes…. When the clock strikes midnight on one’s 18th birthday, they become an adult. (It actually doesn’t matter what time they were born, legally they turn 18 at midnight). And as such, they are allowed to be treated like an adult and make adult decisions which they literally couldn’t do 10 seconds ago.

As I mentioned to another poster: if you disapprove of that, write your congressman.

 

[Bella*chick]

Well now that you mention it, yes…. When the clock strikes midnight on one’s 18th birthday, they become an adult. (It actually doesn’t matter what time they were born, legally they turn 18 at midnight). And as such, they are allowed to be treated like an adult and make adult decisions which they literally couldn’t do 10 seconds ago.

As I mentioned to another poster: if you disapprove of that, write your congressman.

Just because you can get away with something, you feel free and clear to do it? I didn’t say it was illegal. I said people like this are creeps. If you don’t like being called a creep, I don’t think your congressman gives a sh@t so you’ll just have to deal with it.

 

[TheRainMaker]

It depend$.

We need to go further psychologically. Most men would not want to be held hostage by a way older women for money and have to fool around with them. Men are visual creatures and would get grossed out by a wrinkly old out of shape woman. There's a reason you don't see men with much older women. Women seem to be desensitized by men. They are willing to do some pretty gross **** for money.

 

[XLIX]

Just because you can get away with something, you feel free and clear to do it?

The phrase “getting away with something” implies illegal behavior where nobody catches you. If I do something which is perfectly legal, then I am not “getting away” with anything.

I didn’t say it was illegal. I said people like this are creeps. If you don’t like being called a creep, I don’t think your congressman gives a sh@t so you’ll just have to deal with it.

And you have to deal with the fact that we live in a free society where whom people date is none of your business (subject to the aforementioned laws regarding adulthood) and you can’t do a single thing about it beyond stewing in your own anger over 2 people who enjoy each others’ company.

 

[archstanton543]

The phrase “getting away with something” implies illegal behavior where nobody catches you. If I do something which is perfectly legal, then I am not “getting away” with anything.

And you have to deal with the fact that we live in a free society where whom people date is none of your business (subject to the aforementioned laws regarding adulthood) and you can’t do a single thing about it beyond stewing in your own anger over 2 people who enjoy each others’ company.

Just because something's legal doesn't mean it's morally right.

 

[Thelonious]

Uhhhh.

I can't wait until some reporter asks him about it. The glare will be a fabulous thing to see.

I will hope the question will be something like, "So, uh, Bill, are you two going steady now."

Any chance we see a big fat Super Bowl ring hanging from a girlish chain around her neck?

 

[XLIX]

Just because something's legal doesn't mean it's morally right.

Yes, but now you’re venturing into the realm of opinion. We could argue morals morning, noon and night and never come to a consensus.

I don’t see any immorality in anything either of them are doing. Perhaps you do, perhaps you don’t. But as long as something is legal, your morals and my morals are irrelevant. That’s the price we pay for living in a free society.

 

[Bella*chick]

Would tacking on "In A Nutshell" be overkill?

Yes, but now you’re venturing into the realm of opinion. We could argue morals morning, noon and night and never come to a consensus.

I don’t see any immorality in anything either of them are doing. Perhaps you do, perhaps you don’t. But as long as something is legal, your morals and my morals are irrelevant. That’s the price we pay for living in a free society.

Of course you don’t. You “don’t judge” creepy-ass behavior.

Wax sanctimonious about being “judgmental” all you want. If people aren’t judgmental ever (which we are, every one of us) then they never learn good judgment. Something which BB has clearly lost the plot on. I wonder if he’d be carrying on like this if his mom and dad were alive? My guess is no.

BB is no better than someone like Jerry Jones. Just a skeevy creep.

 

[Grogan14]

They both have every right to have this relationship.
But… Bill is a public figure and is subject to outsiders opinions. He can ignore them but on this board everyone is free to voice them.
BB has made millions by being a public figure.

To this outsider without knowing details at first glance it seems creepy and outside the norms
Maybe its a good relationship for both if them. However, BB could have any woman he wants over the age of 40, so why 24?