At what point is an athlete no longer a "kid"?

[Crack Daniels]

17+

Ain't no kids in college or professional sports.

 

[ALonelyDad]

I would go 24-25

 

[Dak Pickscott]

Why are you comparing yaself to professional athletes with meal tickets bae??

 

[MAKAVELI25]

Why are you comparing yaself to professional athletes with meal tickets bae??

Excusing the fact that you just called another man bae, what does this have to do with what TS is talking about?

 

[Spaceman Piff]

you're an adult at 18..

but i'll give you a pass for dumb shyt until you're about 23-24..

if you're still fukking up, that's because you're a fukkup adult

 

[Sauce Dab]

I think its perspective. Alot of the announcers that use that terminology are twice there age and up. They probably do see them at kids because of their relative youth, and the fact they might have watched them back when they were actual kids (teens).

I was pretty much going to say the same thing. A lot of these retired sports personalities are seeing second generation players in the league now. These guys played with their fathers now they're kids are in the NBA (Curry brothers, Austin Rivers etc.)

 

[StraxStrax]

20 years old

 

[Dak Pickscott]

Excusing the fact that you just called another man bae, what does this have to do with what TS is talking about?

@dora_da_destroyer is a female

 

[unit321]

Bear with me in the randomness, but I've always been annoyed how 25, 27, even 29 year old men are being tagged as "kid". No one was calling me a kid at 25. Forgot who I was listening to, but they called curry a kid....I'm like this dude is 27 married with two kids himself and we still calling him kid? Then when athletes do display childish behavior (even as a kid - ie Jameis standing up on a table yelling about p*ssy) they're told to be adults.

Btw - Kenny Mayne gotta be the coolest name in sports and he's pretty damn cool

Probably 18. Then if he's 19 to 29, I would call him a young adult or young man.

 

[SeveroDrgnfli]

Well, in soccer we consider U12 the level where the kids decide to be athletes or remain children. What that means is training isn't always going to be fun if you decide to be an athlete.

 

[who_better_than_me]

If the laws can charge you as an adult, youre an adult

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

Past 24 to me, you're years out of college and need to grow the fukk up.

Everyone lived some fukkery in their early 20's, but once you're near 25 grow up

 

[feelosofer]

From my standpoint you're a kid until you are about 30.