This can apply to any sport, any business, and general life pretty much any day of the week. It's too easy to get on a soap box and yell your displeasure in this day and age.
I'm just not sure where the idea came from that it was only "old" people.
It's today's generation that's constantly jumping on the soap box.
Us "old hockey farts" and "crusty curmudgeonly class" as we're so eloquently referred to, generally prefer being amused by the soap box crowd.
