[Mick]

I\'d like to hear more NFL old timers say something like:  "Aww, man.  These players today.  They are so much faster and more athletic.  I had some great times and did some good things when I played, but the game today,...whooo-eee.  I\'d never see the field."

Instead we usually get:  " What a bunch of crap the game is.  Spoiled kids who don\'t even know what mud is!  How can you have a championship game with freezing rain and mud?   Don\'t even get me started on the pansies who play only one way.  25-30 plays a game!   That\'s not football.  We used to beat the crap out these kids in gym class just on general principle!  The whole world and America are going to hell and  its because of the wussy football!"

Along those lines, Bob Cousy was one old timer who had no rose-colored glasses.  He used to say that, except for Bill Russell, none of his teammates would make a team today\'s NBA.

[Mick]

I\'d like to hear more NFL old timers say something like:  "Aww, man.  These players today.  They are so much faster and more athletic.  I had some great times and did some good things when I played, but the game today,...whooo-eee.  I\'d never see the field."

Instead we usually get:  " What a bunch of crap the game is.  Spoiled kids who don\'t even know what mud is!  How can you have a championship game with freezing rain and mud?   Don\'t even get me started on the pansies who play only one way.  25-30 plays a game!   That\'s not football.  We used to beat the crap out these kids in gym class just on general principle!  The whole world and America are going to hell and  its because of the wussy football!"

Along those lines, Bob Cousy was one old timer who had no rose-colored glasses.  He used to say that, except for Bill Russell, none of his teammates would make a team today\'s NBA.