Michael Jordan showed no mercy playing sons in basketball: ‘Earn everything’
When we’re playing one on one or me on two here, I don’t hold back–which unfortunately means I sometimes run over the younger of my boys yet.
But I know that one day soon they will eclipse me in athletic prowess permanently, so I have to pad my winning percentage whilst I can.
I mean, that very same youngest whom I sometimes run over in basketball runs away from me in 5Ks. He ran a 26 minute 5K when he was ten, for crying out loud, only four or five years after I last carried him over the finish line in one. They’ve already completed a modified virtual triathlon of a sprint distance (subbing in five minutes of cardio for a swim, followed by a 10 mile bike ride and then a 5K) last weekend.
So, yeah, no mercy. And hopefully they’ll show the same lack competitiveness with their old man once they’re beating me regularly, assuming that I don’t give up playing with them once they do.
Which I might soon. Because one does not make it into the Dad Hall of Fame with a losing record.
