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Originally Posted by Mecca
I have news for you, players are alot bigger and faster than they were when Dawson played.
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Really? How old are you? 23? 25? Do you know what the rules were like in 1970? What the equipment was like? There were no domes, carpet, replay booths or oxygen tanks on the sideline. If a player ran 60 yards on a play, he stayed in the game and ran the next series of plays without a breather. There was no such thing as a face-mask penalty or a chop block foul. In many ways, the game is actually safer now.
Regardless of somewhat bigger, faster athletes we may have today, football, as Jo Po so eloquently puts it, has always been a violent game. Dick Butkus played his last game in the 1970s, and ask the old timers if anyone since is as much a pure 100% mauler.
Dawson played 19 seasons. That stands on its own. But like I said below, its just nature and the grace of God.