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Grateful Canada went with the single payer system when it was optimal to do so...
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Todays athletes are far superior IMO....the training is better, they have nutritionist, psychologist etc.....that's why world records fall every year....take an athlete for the 70s vs today, it's night and day....hell, the guys from that era marveled at today's NFL players....
weren't too many men running faster than NFL (should be) HoFer Bob Hayes in history, even without factoring in better equipment and track conditions today, he was special
not sure you can assume an increase in pure speed with the size, has to be some point where it isn't an advantage to be that big
you can take a few mph off for the same impact with more pounds
the dearth of children following their great fathers into sports shows how the game changes over the generations, that body type doesn't work as time marches on
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Well, today, they have to deal with Luke Kuechly, Jamie Collins, Navarro Bowman, Bobby Wagner, Sean Lee, Derrick Johnson, Donta Hightower etc...I would venture to say these guys are faster, stronger and quicker......
The NFL had world class and university champion sprinters in the 60s and 70s and early 80s... top players...
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How do you enter into your equation that every player now is bigger and faster than they were then?
They probably are bigger, for almost the entire part, now.
Speed is a different variable. It's not valued as much as it once was possibly? There isn't any glory in track and field like it once held... at least there won't be many if any as fast as Bob Hayes or Juice were in their prime.
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Absolutely not an urban legend, and Daltrey even said "Don't see Mick get special effects like these" (Stones played the stadium the year before)
I'd say that Who & Clash shows were the best at Rich.
yes, and typical for a Dylan appearance you couldn't understand a word he was singing.
90% of the enjoyment of Dylan was getting old people mad at you because they couldn't understand his lyrics
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I seem to recall seeing the Grateful Dead a few times, Dylan was there once???
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yeah i know, totally classless
public decapitation at halftime ... now youre talking!!
C'mon, Tyrod avoided major injury with the risks he takes out there last year... don't play that game of injury nemesis...
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"I could be a better NFL GM" says local man with adequate performance reviews at his own job. Local man is by most accounts a true NFL Outsider. While some naysayers believe his lack of experience is a weakness, local man sees these supposed weaknesses as his greatest strengths as his total lack of front office experience shields him from the pitfalls associated with years of formal training and scouting experience like conventional wisdom, also known as "group think".
Local man says he has not been contacted by any NFL teams regarding their vacancies at GM. Teams may be waiting to see if local man pursues his political ambitions before making an offer as he was recently overheard claiming he could be a better president of the United States.
This thread reads like the Onion.
Men who watch sports like to think and compare and contrast what is going on in the game, how it could be better, how it could be worse.
Some even put some $$$ behind their views.
Hope you can grasp this is what men who watch sports like to do.
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saw my first game in 1960.. im old.. but as far as a "big splash" , i hope they are done with that stuff.. like a few have said on here , WINNING, having the culture, the tradition, of winning is what works.. IMHO, i think the new "regime" is geared and wired in that direction .
Many thanks to the fans that predate my cheering (from 1973) and still contribute with great value on here!
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He might not find the peak limelight of a Jerry Sullivan article to be ego-fulfilling in these here parts.
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Ha!
I am just saying tech has wrecked the game. Brady is great in his era. It is like driving a car. Just because Brady is great driving an automatic, doesn't mean he can drive a manual transmission. Yet, I wonder how well the old greats would have been given the advantages Brady and other modern qbs are afforded. They surely could drive the automatic!
Just no comparison. The game has changed radically. Longevity and durability, hits need to be addressed too.
Like trying to compare Lemeiux to Gretzky. Just a few short years separate them, but the game rules vastly changed. Mario had to fight his own battles and it took a toll.
Again, Brady is greatest of his era.
I know, my theory is the game was the best when a fan was 11 years old. For me the peak of the NFL was the Christmas Eve Colts/Raiders overtime playoff game...
The big change was the Blount/Tatum rule taking away the ability to make contact after 5 yards, or to use the hook and other means of torture on WRs.
Marino was the first to cash in on this change the most bombing away to WRs that wouldn't have taken the abuse of the 70s men.
I am in my 44th or so year of NFL addiction, I have taught myself to go with the flow and appreciate what the game brings each year, or I can quit watching. Or i can be like a dozen or so bitter old farts I had to watch sports with growing up, complaining the whole game about how life sucks and nothing is as great as it was during the Depression. But they also volunteered to serve in WW2 so I can forgive them getting damaged by that. But their kids griped just as much without going to war...
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Do you think Dion Sanders would play?
I think Dion kept a second-by-second seismic reading on his health status and the perfect time on when to walk away from it all.
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Why the heck not?
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It's actually a pretty simple formula. First you get players, then you add winning.
First you need ownership with a clue that is willing to spend wisely (pending and hopeful on that one)
Then you hire a top-level scouting team
The rest will start to work itself out
But you could muddle around and hope to squeak out a WC massacre loss once every 20 years or so
You could believe that and you'd be wrong. You could have gone 0-16 every year.
1/3 of the NFL is putrid and rancid beyond belief every season. 0-16 is a twice in a lifetime occurrence.
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Ignored them until they were old enough to leave, haven't talked for 25 years now.
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The wimps of today take advantage of medical improvement to keep out there on the field.
They should refuse modern knee surgery technique and suffer like Sayers or Namath did.
That would prove they could play with them in the days when football was mean...
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Everything seems easy to the non-expert, but when someone works in a field at a professional level, they see that it's far more complicated than they imagined before. In short, until you know more about something, you don't realize how little you actually know about it.
No, that's not quite how it works, you had better know a heck of a lot more than people not making 6 or 7 figures to do your job.
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I was just watching the greatest Niners of all-time on NFL Network, and number 3 was Ronnie Lott. Which made me think of how much easier it is to complete a pass today than is was 20-30 years ago. I'm sorry there are waaaaaaaaaay too many people in this thread who just don't understand how much the rule changes have helped the offense in the NFL and have help QB's increase longevity.
Boasting about Joe Montana to young fans is like the old timers going on about Sammy Baugh and Bronco Nagurski in the 1970s...
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not your father's same old Bills...
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Ticket punched for 16 weeks on the couch waiting for the worst to happen.
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let the US, China and Japan each send a good-enough missile to end this.
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It is hard to definitively compare athletes through 4 to 7 decades of watching them play.
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Just send their Grand Poobah Kim a new Hyundai Genesis and a few porn mags. That's what he wants.
and send a few movie stars and directors over there for a few years to make a blockbuster under his design
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I don't get the Manning love...he was absolutely great in the regular season...but man, when the pressure was on, he, more often than not , crumbled miserably.....9 times he had a 1 and done...9!
We can't also ignore the fact the for most of his career, he played in a cozy dome.....that certainly helped the stats....
And finally, his 2nd SB was on the back of a great Denver defense.....he was one of the worst QB in the NFL that year.....
and Manning had a better skill position squad than Brady ever dreamed of.
playing in cold weather has to take it out of a man over the years, playing at 72 degrees for more than half your games was helpful
Tom Brady-The Greatest of His Era, Not All-Time
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I don't buy that hockey has kept the offensive skill and mindset that used to be taken for granted.
I miss the big man dominance that was a main part of college and pro hoops.
I would enjoy watching today's golfers use the same equipment that Bobby Jones had to get around with.