When football was still..........football
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I ALWAYS used my head whenever I could when making a tackle. We were taught from Mighty Might Pop Warner football to "put a hat on 'em". I sent a kid to the hospital hitting him in the kidneys at full speed with my helmet. The same play gave me one of the half dozen stingers I got while playing football that would leave one side of my body numb for a few minutes. To this day I have no discs in my neck to speak of and three fingers on my right hand are numb. I feel fortunate not to have had to have a neck fusion.
So I get the rule, but sometimes the bang/bang way the game is played it's impossible to avoid some of these hits. I think that's what's wrong with the rule. Guys are getting kicked out of games when there was no intent. That should change.
So I get the rule, but sometimes the bang/bang way the game is played it's impossible to avoid some of these hits. I think that's what's wrong with the rule. Guys are getting kicked out of games when there was no intent. That should change.
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That was straight bourbon. Today it's some sort of wine spritzer. Safer and I suppose that's better, but it just isn't the same. Hits like that could change the course of a game. They certainly electrified the crowd. Jarvis Williams was mentioned and his kill shot on Melvin Bratton remains one of the best plays I got to see in person. It was loud in the stadium, but you could hear the hit resonate. That was football as I once knew it.
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Football wasnt always spearing each other with plastic helmets. Running backs didnt lower the heads, defense didnt either. Now people would watch Jim Brown and say he runs too high.
It's not a bad thing to go back to that. I'd remove the helmet altogether, and paradoxically, kids would be safer, just like in rugby.
You can still hit hard without hitting head to head.
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Major Wright's hit on Manny Johnson in the 2008 Championship game comes to mind. Stopped that drive and i think Johnson dropped a pass over the middle later. The hit would likely be flagged now.
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Watching that was interesting on several different levels. What I was amazed at was his throws on the halfback option. Not bad for a RB. Think Mullen or Urbs would have played Brown at QB?
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Wouldnt surprise me. Biggest,fastest , strongest and smartest player on the field? with a good arm? Remember passes were very rare back then anyway
My uncle was an old redneck but he absolutely loved Jim Brown. always his favorite player. you could hardly watch a football game without him bringing up and how much better Jim Brown was than these guys
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Brown was an amazing athlete. He is still considered one greatest college lacrosse players of all time.
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Brown walked away from the game for Hollywood at age 30 and at the height of his career. The decision stunned the NFL.
I remember him threatening to suit up and play at age 50 to preserve his records. Brown had a supersized ego.
I remember him threatening to suit up and play at age 50 to preserve his records. Brown had a supersized ego.
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It was indeed Dizzy Dean. I heard him say it to PeeWee Reese on the Game of the Week. "the" game of the week. On one channel. Out of three. If there weren't sunspots. Dang, that was a long time ago.
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Exactly. But we had two channles
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It was. I’m not quite that old but I was the remote control not too long after those days. My Pop would tell me what channel to turn it to and then adjust the rabbit ears per his direction.
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I'll bet not too many on this thread remember the "fine tuning knob," horizonal hold, and vertical hold. My Dad built a 150' mast for the antenna array. Two sets of guy wires. To turn it when we changed from WEAR to one of the Mobile channels, I would get a Stilson wrench and grab on to the mast and heave around. I was 11.
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