59-year old Michael Flynt has returned to Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas to finish something he started 37 years ago....play football.
'Grandpa' is competing against 100 other college football player wannabes to make the team.
The official roster for the team will be decided possibly this week.
In 1970,Flynt played linebacker for the Sul Ross team but got kicked off the team...nobody is saying why.
Doesn't matter...the NCAA has declared that Flynt has one more year of eligibility at the school he played at in 1970.
The 5'10" 205 former conditioning coach at Nebraska, Oregon and Texas A&M knows best whether or not he can compete with other players his kids' age.
He is almost the same size as he was when he orginally played.
Flynt enrolled in graduate school at Sul Ross because he already has a bachelors and will pay his own tuition. Sul Ross is Division III and there are no scholarships.
The old fellow (I'll not say that to his face) lifts weights, runs sprints and climbs the bleachers with the best of them.
In a few days before the September 1st deadline, Sul Ross' coach, Steve Wright, will let all of us half-centenarians know whether there is at least one among us who still has what it takes to play with the big boys.
I have been looking for a reason and a motivation to get/stay in shape. Maybe, just maybe, I have found it.
What do you want to be doing when you are 59-years old?
Hello Micheal, I would like you to know that Mo throw me out of our home after numerous periods of physical abuse. I continually gave him grace because of the stress of finance. Then when I began back to work ( which I had wanted to for years and he threated to leave if I returned to traveilng). He still operated with janet and burt and assumed I would just send over my pay checks. When I said lets worl as a couple he becacme abuse and told me many times to I won't repeat the words to leave. The last time I had just returned fron 14 hours travel from hawaii, and with my grandaugter in hand he told me to get the f out and he would be spending the thanksgiving with janet and burt.
and for me to find somewhere elese to live ( I'm saving you the swearing that I could not save my granddaughter that mo say he care so much about
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