I really detest what football has become. The game now is nothing like it used to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pep7oi-L_uA&t=15s
Though I won't hear it here, what the Leftist bedwetters respond with (because I've had these conversations multiple times) "boo hoo hoo you meanie! You just want to be entertained as a fan and you don't care if players are injured for your entertainment." To which I respond "BULLSHIT! I played for 8 years. I broke 3 fingers and 2 ribs. I had 3 concussions. I partially tore my hamstring. I had numerous other injuries the absolute worst of which was a sprained lower back (Jeezus that was awful). That's football. You know that if you play it is a metaphysical certainty you WILL get injured eventually. If you can't handle that.....DON'T PLAY. Nobody is forcing you. Just leave the game to the rest of us who actually have a working pair of balls OK nancy boy?"
I played football in Jr. High and High School. Freshmen got the old equipment and pads. leather helmets, most without face bars... and leather/horsehair padding. Metal cleats were the standard but starting to wane. Mouthpieces were considered “tried” but not proven.
back then, if you did not get hurt or bloody in practice you were NOT playing it right. if you were uninjured in any way after a game... you MIGHT get thrown off the team.
It was more like rugby today of yesteryear. We played tackle with no pads in 10th grade “summer” camp.
stitches, broken fingers, cracked ribs, and lacerated front of legs... those were basics.
it was a good introductory precursor to combat soldier training...