01-08-2018, 09:51 AM
(01-05-2018, 09:06 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Teddy Roosevelt lobbied for major changes because he felt the same way.
The game will continue to change today to enable the game to survive, just as it did back in Teddy's day.
That's a nice thought, but it's different. The changes back then were to take unnecessary brutality out of the game. Today the issue is the fundamental basis of the game doesn't work with the size and speed of humans. We run too fast at too large of sizes creating collisions that generate minor car crashes on the field repeatedly. Unless the plan is to remove the collisions (At that point I wouldn't all it football) then there isn't a whole lot they can do.
Throughout history we have done things that at the time seemed fine, but only later we realized how dumb it really was. That is how kids played with mercury in schools, and we painted houses and other items with lead paint. Only years later we realize just how ignorant we were to what we were doing.
