Kryptonite

I classify myself as an old timer...(44yrs) Records were being set before "defenses were not allowed to play". Also, "rule changes have allowed many wr to become starts that would have gotten eaten alive in the old days". Who would have eaten them alive? There were star WR back in the old days, right? So how did they become stars?

The depth of the talent pool in today's game makes the "old days" talent pool look like a shallow carp pond in the middle of your local shopping mall. Let's not down play today's players because of the rules they have to play by. One of the reasons the rules have been put into place is because of their talents. They have become too fast, too big, too strong...so fast! NFL is just trying to protect their product. Although, I agree that it is overboard most of the time. We have to get away from this "Roman-Coliseum Gladiator" way of thinking. We are not watching the game to see guys get decapitated, with blood gushing out of their necks, eyes gouged out, and limbs hanging on by a 1" piece of flesh. We are watching for pure entertainment. Let's not let our thirst for blood and gore ruin these guys lives. Just because they have mascots of lions, tigers, and bears (oh my"), does not mean we should expect those type of results.

Like everyone has said before "records are made to be broken". We have to stop thinking that our childhood heroes were the only real men around. Remember they were "your" heroes, and that's all. I remember seeing pics in old football books in the library with guys playing in just the leather helmets and rarely any gear. What happened to that? I'll tell you, they realized that it was stupid to keep doing so due to the way the game was evolving. It was becoming a more physical/punishing game. And that was when some of the biggest guys on the field were around 220-240lbs. Laughable now, huh?

The game has to change, and along with that so do the rules. Because if every Sunday that you tuned into your favorite team you realized that the starting QB, WR, RB, TE, etc was out of the game again for an extended period of time, you would tune in less and less. You may think "that's what i'm doing now anyway"...yeah right! Everyone's always lying about how they are not watching the NFL and NBA much anymore. Stop your damn lying. So why is it that they are always the ones coming into work asking "did you see the game last night?". And can give you every stat from every game for the last 10 yrs.

Again, I'm an old timer and miss the days when I was younger and my favorite players were playing on Sunday and I thought that there was no way it could get any better than this. Guess what, there are kids today who watch football on Sundays now and are thinking the same thing. The only b-eye-tea-see-h'ing you get are from us "old timers". Let just sit back let the young guys play the game that we all love and stop getting mad at the world because were are now the "old timers".