I know from my own experience in France that with the end of your career looming, older players can sometimes overachieve, have a last hurrah and briefly roll back the years.
The officer pulled the dog into the boat; the child threw his little arms around him; and the men in the boat, and the sailors in the ship, cried out with joy, Hurrah! hurrah! joy! joy!
And instead of the deadly silence the whole place rang with the sound of happy roarings, brayings, yelpings, barkings, squealings, cooings, neighings, stampings, shouts, hurrahs, songs and laughter.
A newspaper of the time reported that VanBuren was elected president, in its words: " ...by the hurrah boys, and those who knew just enough to shout hurrah for Jackson."