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Back in an age when Men played the Game.

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In the 1960s, American culture was fracturing along a fault line, with the common man on one side and scorn against his mores and values on the other.

The league’s commissioner at the time, Pete Rozelle, chose to take the side of ordinary Americans in the raging culture war, because they were his natural audience. The league sent star players to visit troops in Vietnam and issued rules requiring players to stand upright during the playing of the National Anthem.

How things have changed... Today's NFL stands on the shoulders of giants - - and pisses on them...