Posted on 11/03/2023 3:03:24 PM PDT by george76
that’s funny! good one central_va
Some of us never started. :)
I think Gino Marchetti was the last one to play with a broken leg. 1956.
old white man
Just hang in there you most likely have to endure
another few but not a long lifetime.
In about 2005 I watched a UK game against an instate rival (maybe Louisville?) where one of the QBs sustained a severe leg injury but insisted on playing. I think it was raining too and it went into overtime several times. His teammates literally carried him to the line of scrimmage for the remaining plays. Can’t remember who won but it was pretty inspiring to see. That’s when I realized most college athletes play with heart while most pros play for $$$.
I haven’t watched a football game since the Pistons beat the Angels for the Stanley Cup.
Same here.
They need to get rid of the live animation in football and baseball games and golf. I know where the lines and the balls are and do not need to see the animation.
Thank goodness Butkus isn’t still around to see this farce.
I think of Emmitt Smith, with a separated shoulder, against the Giants, with the NFC East Division title on the line.
I agree about the old guys being way more tough about playing through injuries.
But Patrick Mahomes played through a bad high ankle sprain last year in the playoffs- there are a very few -not many though - that still want to stay on the
field.
Anyone remember a NFL player from literally decades ago named Bronco Nagurski
Probably one of the toughest guys to play the game and he played both ways.
No injury would stop this guy. He would look at today’s players and consider all of them Pussies!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronko_Nagurski
NFL died with domes.
I met a former player for the Baltimore Colts. Offensive lineman in the late 60’s to the early 70’s. His fingers pointed every direction of the sun and his knees were shot. I asked him if he would do it again knowing what would happen to him. He smiled with half his teeth gone and told me “HELL YES”.
I’m old - I got to know some of the old Baltimore Colts as well when we lived in Towson - Gino Marchetti and Artie Donovan and Ordell Braase in particular- all they cared about was playing football. They didn’t get paid if they didn’t play and they didn’t make all that much when they did play.
Artie used to say that football was invented to keep coal miners off the streets.
I grew up in the ‘Burgh area and was a die-hard Steelers fan, even after I moved out of the area. I quit the NFL cold turkey one Sunday - was watching a close Steelers game and suddenly realized that the zebras had complete control of the outcome of the game - if they are on the take they can decide the outcome of any close game. Not saying they are crooked, mind you, but it would be quite easy for them. Also realized that I was watching more commercials than game action. I turned it off and haven’t watched since. Don’t even know who is on the Steelers this year.
The kneeling stuff came later, and only made it easier to ignore the game.
Just keep getting those mRNA boosters…
They don’t have any cancer causing SV40 DNA plasmids left over from the manufacturing process at all, Pfizer promises.
(Dr. Gaslight scurries over to google figure out what an SV40 plasmid is.)
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