KEITH T. DENNETT | REAL LIFE | CONTACT
A local man is having a bit of moment this afternoon after realising he’s no longer the young gun touch player he was in his teens.
Having grown up playing footy in the mid-2000’s, Shaun Prince (30) enjoyed a glittering early athletic career which took him to a variety of touch footy carnivals across Queensland playing for Betoota’s U/14s and U/16’s rep footy sides.
Blessed with a fast set of feet and a gorgeous cut out pass, Shaun’s early talents were even captured at the time by his parent’s digital camcorder, which Shaun soon turned into a cool highlights package he uploaded onto YouTube with a DMX soundtrack.
But having just turned 30 and begun to feel the effects of 20 years of playing footy on ovals which have a cricket pitch on the halfway line, Shaun’s fast twitch fibres are dwindling by the week.
After suffering an embarrassing 8-2 loss at Lockyer Parklands social touch this afternoon to a team of high school kids, Shaun spoke to The Advocate from the back porch of his Betoota Heights home as he untied his trusty XBlades boots.
“I don’t even know man, one minute you’re nailing a Benji goosey every recess at school, next minute you’re 30 years old, your hamstrings are tighter than a violin and you’re getting flogged by a team of Year 10 kids doing compulsory after school sport.”
“I got stepped by this little runt with a mullet like three times tonight, he beat me twice on the edge and flicked it out the back like it was nothing.”
“Bet he doesn’t even know who Pat Richards is! He would’ve been a tadpole in his father’s nutsack when
Benji did what he did in that 05’ Grand Final…”
