Listen:

This is a message for seniors. It is also a message for those of you who have senior grandparents, senior parents, senior aunts and uncles. Because guess what? Someday, faster than you think, you’re going to become a senior, too.

The good news about seniors is, we are living longer than any generation before us. Listen to this data. The average life expectancy of an American has doubled since 1900. A senior woman who reaches 65 years old has an average a life expectancy of 87. A senior man reaching 65 years of age will have an average life expectancy of 85 years. So we have seniors living longer, and yet we hear all the doomsayers say that people living long is somehow bad news. They say it is going to strangle the economy. They say that social security will run out of money soon and that taking care of older Americans is going to be a problem.

(more…)

Listen:

Brett Favre has announced his retirement from the Green Bay Packers, and that’s a retirement announcement that nobody really wanted to hear, because we watched him have one of his best years last year. He was healthy, his arm was still strong, his legs were strong, he didn’t have bad knees, bad shoulders, and he was playing on a really good football team. But he said in his press conference that he was just tired. I understand that. When I retired from football I was 38 years old – one month before I turned 39 – after playing for 18 years. I had a bum shoulder, torn cruciate, and was recovered from a broken leg, but more than that, I was just tired. It was time to go. So I understand that.

(more…)

Listen:

In the early 1980s I was hosting a program on ABC called “That’s Incredible.” On one of our shows we had a 3 year old Tiger Woods and his father. For that show, Tiger was hitting balls into a net in our studio, and ever since that show, I’ve followed his incredible career. I don’t think that we will ever, ever again see an athlete in any sport dominate like he dominates. We certainly haven’t seen it before. Yes, my background in pro football of 18 years was a glorious career, but I have never seen anybody do what Tiger Woods is doing. He is winning 30% of the tournaments he tees up. He’s got a perfect year going this year with 4 straight tournaments. It just looks like everybody is playing for 2nd place. You look at how he handles himself. He is totally under control, he is totally focused, and he continues to work on his game. He has a desire to get better. He treats people with dignity. He just is about as perfect a person as you can get, and he is the icon of sports celebrity in the world. There’s nobody that’s even close to him. Yes, in the past we’ve said Muhammad Ali was the biggest sports celebrity and Michael Jordan was the biggest sports celebrity. Quite frankly I never thought we’d ever see an icon like Muhammad or Michael, but we have. But Tiger has gone beyond all that. And the reason I’ve put this information out is that I think that something else is going to happen very shortly.

(more…)