My only connection to music today is that I was named after Guy Lombardo. Playing a musical instrument could be with me now and stay with me forever. Instead, I have to buy CDs at Tower. I played football. I loved football.
Football is macho.
But you should also learn to play a non-contact sport like basketball or tennis. That is, a sport you can play when you're over the hill. It will be as difficult when you're 40 to get twenty two guys together in a stadium to play football as it is to have a conversation in Latin, but all the people who wore cute, white tennis outfits can still play tennis. And all the macho football players are sitting around watching television and drinking beer. Learning is a process not an event.