Yeah, remember Roman Gabriel. He was about as big as Peyton Manning but a notch or two below him. He’s more like the Dak Prescott of his generation — looked good in regular season but flopped in the playoffs.
I have such great memories of those old teams. I have often wondered why the NFL has never put together a library of all the games? Clean them up (many of them have deteriorated in quality, from what I see here-and-there on the Internet). Clean them up and they could charge for access to that library. I'd pay in a heartbeat to be able to watch the old games again - it was FANTASTIC football. In particular it had "complete football" and not just a game (today) where you see the passing offensive game over-emphasized to the point that it "waters down" the excitement of the games "back in the day." Those were INCREDIBLE entertainment. But, I would not want to see the quarterbacks of today being hurt like the old guys got hurt though. Some games you'd even watch two QBs taken out on stretchers in the same game for the same team. Those old QBs were tough dudes.
Guys like Jack Tatum and Dick Butkus would have a hard time adjusting to the new rules. The reason MP, motm, etc. say it’s now a “passing game” is that NFL rules cripple the defense. I don’t like it, but we are not going back (except on video).
