"You'll know you're getting older," my brother told me decades ago, "When your sports heroes start to retire."
I'll do him one better.
I was watching what's left of my Ohio State team on Saturday. Mike Vrabel is now an assistant coach. I watched him star at Ohio State. My Steelers drafted him, and I watched him play out his contract before leaving for the Patriots, where he won a bunch of rings. I watched him slowly grow old and ineffective, then retire. Now I'm watching his next career. And this entire arc happened since I left grad school.
Next week, I shop for cemetery plots.