Does size matter?

 In the NFL, offensive tackles are usually taller (and heavier), so they can keep monster, maniac defensive ends from getting their grubby paws on precious quarterbacks. So, like they may consume 6,000 calories a day compared to the smaller, squattier interior lineman counterparts, guards and centers who eat mebbe 5,000 calories a day.

Those BIGN'S can also make upwards of $20 MILLION a year (compared to $1 to $10 MIL for guards, centers - so yeah I'd say that matters. Logic would say "start eating" eh? Count me in!

Then again, we got David and Goliath... Daniel La Russo and Johnny Lawrence (wax on wax off kick the bigger guy's arse) and of course Ralphie knocking the eye out of the bully Scut Farkus. (I was gonna list Popeye and Bluto but that was spinach induced.)

Big matters in an airline center seat, on a basketball court, when you're a tall guy walking thru a low threshold.

Poor Barney Fife. I watched an episode the other day where some highfalutin new County Commissioner mandated "all deputies must be (minimally) 5'8" and 135 pounds. Andy begged, pleaded, highfalutin wouldn't budge. Barney, 5'7 1/2, buck-twenty-seven", walked in defeatedly in street clothes to hand in his badge, gun (and bullet). "Now wait a minute Barn...."Andy had an idea....

Aunt Bea could fatten him up, and "remember when Chuck was havin' back problems and Doc' put that thing on him and stretched him out?" So they tried. Barney ate and ate (like an offensive tackle) and then two hours a day Barn went in the closet, had this contraption thing under his chin with a rope over the clothes hanging bar, attached to a weight that lifted Barney's head up.  It's impossible to use keyboard strokes to 'paint' a picture of Barney's facial expression as he did this (you're probably old like me, just envision Barney's panic look!) Poor Opie thought Barn was trying to hang himself and charged his buddies a nickel apiece to watch thru the window.

Ended up, Barney did stretch to 5'8", but, he kept getting the hiccups when trying to down Aunt Bea's fare. Andy saved the day ("it's permissible to have an ID on a chain under your uni") by having Barney wear what looked to be a 5 lb log chain under his uni as he weighed in.

Does size/matter matter? Hefty trash bags, gigantic sales,...humongous.. immense... husky...substantial... prodigious.. whopping...

Grandson's first soccer game yesterday... a tad nervous for him... He's 10 in a 12 and under league, probaly the smallest on the team. Holy guacamole, this little bitty gal on the purple team (and I mean little bitty, like a head shorter than my grandson and two heads shorter than his tallest teammate) - anyways, little bitty dribbled around, over and through the much bigger red dudes to the tune of five goals.

So, there you have, any, everything about size matters, sometimes.

Huh?  You were expecting?

Pervert.

Love, Victurd