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Originally Posted by monoflo
In American team sports with the possible exception on Baseball the modern athlete is just better,
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Yup.
But I will add, as someone who loves Baseball and played in college: Pitching velocity has completely morphed from the days when "cheese" was the rare guy who threw in the 90's in HS and college.
Today? The cheddar
starts at 90 which would have me, an 80 plus MPH pitcher, out of the deli section and into dry goods...
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Originally Posted by monoflo
When Fridge Perry lines up for the Bears as a rookie he was like one of two lineman over 300lbs in the NFL. Today I doubt there are OLs under 300. Sure there are guys in the past that could compete especially as they would benefit from modern training but ..... time passes.
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i actually know the Perry family, played against Williams older brothers and cousins in HS...time does indeed pass and nothing is the same.
Football is a fundamentally different sport than it was 30 years ago...the fastest guy on my HS footballs team(s) ran a 4.6 40 in the mid 1970's...all the wheels in the world in those days in a sub 6 foot frame at 160lbs.
He'd get torched today like Burning Man.
Brady, played from the neck up. What is amazing to me about the Mahomes of the current crop, he in particular, is that he has both the complete mental gifts and the stunning physical prowess that is, frankly when combined with his attitude, so much joy to watch.