02-04-2022, 05:37 PM
(02-04-2022, 05:08 PM)BengalYankee Wrote: Like I said ...
Otherwise we need to get rid of anything in the Hall of Fame before 1966. Which is stupid.
Imo, players should be acknowledged who paved the way, but the NFL was just to unstable from 1920 to 1966 to take those championships seriously.
You had dozens upon dozens of teams who played a season, then folded. Team mergers. Multiple league mergers. Etc.
The league didn't start to resemble what we see now until the Super Bowl era, followed quickly by the AFL/NFL merger.
So I (like many) choose to just look at that. That's why you see so many records say "since the merger" or "during the SB era".
No disrespect to past teams/players. It's just that the league was a mess in it's formative years.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
