Potentially Adding More Regular Season Games?

[Kelverin]

Quote: Originally Posted by bgeno

The collision between two trains is a lot bigger than the collision between two cars. That's similar to the collision between two of today's athletes and the collision between two of yesteryear's. Today's athletes are trains, while those of yesteryear are cars.

The players today are not that much bigger, on both lines they are fatter, and faster as well, because they train better and are in better shape for $$$$$$$$ reasons. Again, it's a rough sport, if the players can't take it find something else to do.

But I think you overestimate the difference in size, speed. How can you tell they are faster today? This is a serious question are the times listed somewhere of the older players in question?

Just a random selection, I'll leave it to you to look up when they played.

Richard Marvin Butkus

Position: LB
Height: 6-3 Weight: 245 lbs.

Jack Ham

Position: LB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 225 lbs.

Charley Britt

Position: DB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 180 lbs.


Ray Nitschke

Position: LB
Height: 6-3 Weight: 235 lbs.

Deacon Jones

Position: DE
Height: 6-5 Weight: 272 lbs.

Richard Paul Anderson

Position: DB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 196 lbs.

John Sawyer

Position: TE
Height: 6-2 Weight: 230 lbs.

Jim Brown

Position: FB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 232 lbs.

Joe Greene

Position: DT
Height: 6-4 Weight: 275 lbs.

Bibbles Bawel

Edward Raymond Bawel

Position: DB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 185 lbs.

Bart Starr

Position: QB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 197 lbs.

John Schuhmacher

Position: G-T
Height: 6-3 Weight: 271 lbs.

Reference http://www.pro-football-reference.com/

[bgeno]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2313479

I know it's about Prep football, but the kids aren't getting any smaller as they move from one level to the next.


I think it's the combination of size and speed that makes the difference. You didn't see a guy who was 270 lbs running a 4.6 40 back in the day.

[kcarr]

Well, I guess them adding rules to make the game softer might kinda cancel out the adding of more games. I can see this 50 years from now going to something along the lines of a 40 or 50 game schedule with a few games a week playing two hand touch football.