Old School NFL Football Hits That Would Trigger People Today
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- A look at what NFL football used to look like before rule changes began to soften the game.
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Back when being a MLB and Safety were the most badass positions on defense
Facts!
Bullshit! Who’s more badass, the dude who sits waiting for a guy who has a job to do and basically sucker punches him because he’s not looking, or the guy who does his job knowing that some loudmouth bitch is going to put him in the hospital, after talking a bunch of shit to him while he’s on the ground, not because of superior talent but because he had an easy free shot….? Taking a guys head off because he can’t see you, and ending his ability to make a living, doesn’t take skill. It doesn’t make a player a bad ass.
Back when the Offensive and Defensive linesmans all end up in a pile after every possession. Now, they're all just standing up and pushing each back and forth.
Still...
If the defense was still allowed to hit like this we wouldn't have to watch receivers celebrate and talk $hit every time they get a first down. NFL defenses used to have a way of keeping people in check.
With all the changes in rules over the years it's a testament to just how incredibly good Jerry Rice was. He played in an era where headhunters were allowed and his numbers are still largely untouchable.
Facts!
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How a little more respect for defensive players today ? With all these rules that make impossible to play defense. Especially the CBs. No one ever talks about how hard it has to be to be an elite cornerback in todays NFL
It is unfair to tye defense. Some penalities agaisnt the defense are stirfht up ruins the game to say lets not play tackle football at all. @Mr.Hall3850
Exactly unlike todays WR inflated rules numbers
Back when receivers were scared to catch a pass up the middle.
Yup. As soon as they took those hits away you start seeing 44 year olds have 5309 yard 43 td seasons, and college scramble type QBs like Patrick Mahomes having 4500-5000 yard seasons. People think the QBs are just better nowadays but its not true at all. I mean Brady had a 50 td - 4800 yard season under old school rules but im talking about all the other QBs throwing for 4k-5k yards a season.
Yeah, it is supposed to be a risk for those twinkletoes! lol
(former linebacker here)
and now we have some of the softest wr's out there...like OBJ
@@joejackson9986 put Julio Jones or Deandre Hopkins in the 70s and they genuinely would have 500 yards a game
@@dutdut2.091 nah. Dudes would be crushed by head-first tackles.
Man I do miss the probowl being a real game. Crumpler is also an extremely underrated and forgotten TE
Bdawk knocked him into the shadow realm they haven’t talked about it since
Crump!
Crumpler mid he’s not underrated lol
@@NinersFan69he was underrated niners fanboy 🤡✌
Everyone says QBs from back then would suck in today’s NFL. I’ve been a proponent of the opposite. The defenses from this era were absolutely brutal and the runningback was a much bigger commodity, but guys like Dan Marino still managed to have some of the greatest quarterback seasons of all time. Imagine them against defenses of the modern era.
They'd get creamed. The game has developed so much. In both raw athleticism and fundamental gameplan.
@@olal9904Agree players are so much bigger faster and stronger today.
@@TravisMcGee151 look at the averages in height in the league, they've gone nothing but up. Today linemen are on average 6'5, 40 years ago they were 6'1
@@olal9904 concussion protocols, 60% of kickoffs result in touchbacks now, spotting the ball on the 25 yard line after the kick, you can't even touch the QB anymore, they kickoff from the 35 yard line now, no hitting of a defenseless player, the game now is soft compared to what it was. Total wussy a$$ football. What do you think the 6' 3'' 245 pound Lawerence Taylor would have done to Tom Brady? He would have been thrown outta of every game today.
@@olal9904 The '85 Bears O-Line = Mark Bortz 6' 6'' 285, Jay Hilgenberg 6'3'' 260, Tom Thayer 6'4'' 265, Keith Van Horne 6' 7'' 285, Jim Covert 6' 4'' 280. Average height thru out the league was 6' 4' for offensive lineman in the 80's. It was 6' 3'' for lineman in the 70's. 40 years ago was '83. You are way off.
I’ll never forget LT’s reaction as he heard Thiesman’s leg break.
I literally had to skip the replay for that
@@YankeesLife was he at the game for that
He was geniunely shook up, he felt terrible even though Joe and everyone else knew he didnt purposely snap his leg. I was watching that game with my Dad live on tv (not at the game).
Moorman’s left leg still stands to this day
It was understandable, he was worried he may lose the leg after that kind of injury. It was about as gruesome and injury as I have ever seen and a moment of pure panic
Cecil was a monster. You could just feel and hear that blunt impact. Beautiful hit
True maniac. Just loved hitting people. And I think a lot of his would be perfectly legal today
Scud!!!
How about that Bill Romanowski?
Never heard of him until now and wow what a scary dude lol
Bro needs to be PED tested today 😂
Player gets decapitated, announcer: but did he hold onto the ball?
as it should be😔
Triggered
2:23 no but cmon what a catch 😂
The game must go on!!
Pffthahahaha
Brutal plays from the 80s and 90s, mixed with some .04 second murder in the 60s and 70s. 👀🕊
Lmao like little old timey reel with the Pe-any playing 🎹
uploader is a noob young r e t a r d for thinking 2000's is "old-school"
When I think 'old school' I'm thinking 70s and 60s and before.
Back then you had two WRs..one who was fast to go deep...and one who wasn't afraid to go over the middle
I think Chuck cicil was more scary than Ronnie Lott because of how crazy he was. Most underrated hard hitting safety
Right
I always feel like nobody remembers how dangerous Chuck Cecil was
No one hit like Tatum though
That hit on the Redskins fullback was the nastiest hit I've ever seen.
So glad to see him on here! My man brought the lumber at 190 lbs!!
Till this day, Lawrence Taylor is still haunted by that hit
Remember watching it, ended Joe’s career. Could see how upset he was
And you know it was bad when he was in panic mode
The random gruesome hits from the 50/60s that keep popping up randomly is killing me 😂
50's and 60's?
Young people: Why were completion percentages so low back then?? Pathetic
QB throws pass up the middle, Safety sends WR to the graveyard.
Damn you had some unseen hits on this one. Great Comp.
They was hitting so hard that they were knocking their own teammates out.
The Lawrence Taylor sack that broke Joe Theismann’s leg was neither a hard hit or a dirty hit. It was a perfectly legal tackle, even by today’s standards.
It’s just the way Theismann’s body and leg twisted is what made the break.
Should not have been included
The vast majority of these are clean hits even today
As soft as the current league is, it would have been flagged 😢
@@nicks2581 How would it be flagged. You’re just talking out your ass
The title doesn’t say anything about the hits being illegal.
@@HolySpicoli”The vast majority” is a stretch.🙄
5:57 That was just a good clean hit, led with the shoulder, looked good and got the players and crowd excited, but most importantly the receiver got up. That’s good football. Hard hits but players keep playing.
Sammy White's catch at 2:10 is truly one of the best I've seen. At 2:26 you can see he caught a right hook from #26 and then took one of the meanest helmet shots from the assassin himself Jack Tatum. Dirty? Maybe. But a product of its time. Even if modern players are athletically superior to the men of those days, I doubt any of them could catch a pass- let alone survive a shot like that.
if old players are athletically inferior how did they survive? yall old niggas just say anything.
I feel like a ton of old school guys could make it
I think the new schppl guys arent superior. More rules tech gear supplements fancy numbers etc. Yeah but the old cats could play the game and were toughest dudes around. Never gave less than 100% on the field
@@shad3128 let’s see them tough guys meet Derrick Henry in the Gap. Or try and block someone like Aaron Donald or Myles Garrett. I love the old game but damn man show some respect to the people playing the game currently
@@trupimp2211 Power runningback like that would have his knees destroyed just like Bettis did. Everyone knows go for the knees and old school players would do that to him. His career would be just as short as Robert Smith's was.
No way Tom Brady plays until he’s 45 in this era.
He started at the end of this era. If he was drafted when Bledsoe was drafted he wouldn’t make 2007
@@WTMNNJR why wouldn't make it he's the toughest sob to ever play the game
What years are the era
@@thegodfather768Brady sure as hell isn’t even close to being tough 😭
He had good pass protection with the patriots
When Atwater hit the 'nightmare', and turned him into a bed time story. 😂😂
Put ole boy to bed
Shows how great Christian Okoye was, that a guy stopping him one time was such a big deal.
@@ItsScottJonesone time but a generational hit. Okoye was never the same.
The problem i have with atwater's hit okoye was running half hearted that game his wife had just lost there baby and he had left his feet right before the hit and the fact that Okoye had ran over atwater many times in other games
Bring this football back, it was great
Yeah let's shorten people's careers and lives for our entertainment.
@@bradystafford7654 shut up they get paid millions most of the players from back in the day turned out fine it’s a man’s game for a reason!
As entertaining as it was, cte and spinal damage isn't worth it. Cte damaged the brain as you know which will change a persons personality. That becomes more hostile and erratic. Can cause violence on others or themselves, resulting in bodily harm or d3@th Or the other side of cte where your cabbaged.
The other reasons to why the rules were changed and not just for player safety is those Benjamin's. You pay all that money for a guy only for him to get decapited while playing. Gotta look after your stock and get as much out of the players as possible. That's why teams now hate chancing on running backs because their career life isn't that long due to all the punishment the body guys through.
@@bradystafford7654 they chose it not me
@@bradystafford7654 oh please they get paid millions lol
These guys were taking more damage for less money. Badass individuals.
They were just happy they could play.
This new NFL is boring the offense scoring long TD PASSES ALMOST EVERY PLAY
Back in those days, the NFL was essentially mercenary work.
@@yung824agreed it doesn’t seem earned to an extent
used to be that big hits were Highlight material. you were encouraged to intimidate the opposing player, or at least not back down. It eventually got the point where there was "bounties" on the opposing QB to intentionally knock him out of the game (the Ravens won a Super Bowl this way), so rules had to be put in place. But I miss this about old school football. But I miss the bad weather games on natural grass the most, I think. Those days are gone, even at the high school level.
No more mud and blood.
The game went soft thats how defence should be played
I can't stand all the new stadiums are dome. Soon every team will be playing indoors.
Yeah it’s so stupid how you can’t end a guys career by giving him a brain bleed anymore. It was so much better when the defender and receiver had to leave the game forever after one hit. Gosh, the old days were so much better. Why’d they even start considering player safety? So dumb.
@@whoopityscoop9575
settle down, skippy. I pointed out that the new rules had to be put into place 'cuz it was getting out of hand.
I miss career ending brain bleeds in football. That’s what I miss most!
I miss those type of hits.
agreed, it would put some respect on all these passing records from back in the day
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I for one think CTE is bad
@@tylermoore397 How dare you suggest that hits that could literally kill a player in a sports game should not be banned. Don't you know how important football is?! You should be able to legally murder somebody on the field, or what's the point?!
Yes CTE is bad but these players are getting paid an ungodly amount of money. And big hits were always apart of the game. Taking it out makes the game seem more soft than it should be.
I remember watching that one with Steve Atwater in the 90's, but before that I knew he was a hall of famer. He would make receivers pay. Willing to give up your body to make a play is absolutely amazing.
ya ya! back then it was the National Tackle League ;-)
Killing yourself for a little bit of money and a lifetime of pain is not amazing at all
How bout the greatest ever Monday night football The Nigerian Nightmare Christian Okoye up the middle vs Steve Atwater the biggest and loudest collision I've ever seen and cam remember like it was yesterday
Thank you so much for putting this on You Tube. The guys that played when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s would destroy today's softies.
And players back then were smaller, slower, and weaker than players today. I'd like to see how those physics work out.
The best pro team from the 70's couldn't beat the top college team today.
I think the guys today are bigger and more athletic. It's sorta like old cars. They seem bigger and tougher, but they'd get beat by a Chevy Bolt in a drag race, and destroyed by a Honda Civic in a crash.
I agree, I see these guys taking a lot of these younger bigger, athletes heart due to they aren’t even use to tough, coaching, mental mentality, and overall physicality of the traditional game. QBs use to running around not being hit, and WR run all over the field with no consequences. People forget the rules are overly skewed for the offense in today’s game.
PA Announcer: "Folks, we are all first-place winners today!"
Sean Taylor: 8:18
Steve Atwater would 100% put your lights out over the middle. World class hitter.
Good Times!!!
When Football was Football!!!
Agreed.. back when a running or passing record was real and not assisted by overly skewed rules for the offense to succeed
Am I the only who notices that every pass play these days is from the shotgun formation?
Whatever happened to the drop back from the pistol formation?
@@DialloMoore503 That's bc of the wildcat formation
1:00 i love how Lawrence Taylor and his teammates are showing concern for their downed opponent and frantically waving for medical attention. It’s never good when there’s an injury but usually when there is one, it’s a rare chance to for us to be reminded of our compassion for one another.
Nope
Mahomes and Kelce wouldn't last five minutes in this era.
Most Under look comment!!!
This is realistically true!!!
How about five minutes or less around John Lynch or Lawrence Taylor lol. They would have been gone after about the first hit or two
Justin,Jalen,Jared & Tua would not make it against Strahan,White(R.I.P Reggie White),aggressive 90s Dallas D line ,Junior Seau(R.I.P.Junior) & Ray Lewis. Both TJ & JJ Watt would have trouble in the 90s...(Aikman,Young,Prime Elway,Brett Favre of Green Bay SB game & Early 2000s Tom Brady were hard to hit...)
God I miss these days so much
Some of these hits are so hard people are still watching them 50 years later!
The Sean Taylor hit on the punter was nasty AF!!!
RIP Sean Taylor, he was an absolute beast
Good video of some forgotten plays. I nominate Greg Lloyd on Brett Favre. That was the one where Favre barfed blood. They called timeout and the next play he threw the touchdown. He barfed blood and wouldn’t sit because something like that happened earlier that year and the backup lost the game on 1 of the dumbest plays in history. Now...all of that isn’t even the craziest part. The craziest part is that Lloyd rocked Favre just as bad in their preseason game and they kept him out after that until week 1. Fast forward to week 17 with it all on the line and Favre runs straight at him to try and score. Had he made it over the Goal Line it would have been the GOAT run IMO.
Brady doesn't do shit like that because he is protected
Lloyd was an absolute monster, he tried to take people's souls.
Fuck this story
@@Amazingfilms148 Go look up a video called “Nate Clements drills Tom Brady” and tell me how protected he was.
He’s absolutely protected you clown. That was when he was a nobody and he’s RUNNING with the ball lol…
Bring this football back, also hockey, and basketball all of entertainment and sports needs the rawness back
It’s entertaining but most of these guys probably can’t hold complete sentences anymore my guy.
@@egotgame38So? Still bring it back, everyone now knows the risk. Play and make money, fame, etc. and possibly injury or don’t. That should be the deal
@@Max_mJust because you know the risk doesn't mean you play like a wild baboon with no caution to the wind of your own mental & physical well-being. There's a reason why some of these hits in the past are left in the past & condemned in today's game
Yeah, while we are at it, let’s abolish all work place safety laws and make children work dangerous jobs again too!
Agreed I think this is what’s missing the essence that made them great in the first place. Have the players say yes or no on changes but if they say yes being back the old days of play
Now this is football.
1:01 you know it's bad when Lawrence Taylor is the one waiving over the medical team 😬
Chuck Cecil was trying to kill em...
This just adds validity to the "eras" argument. When you can dang near paralyze a guy after a nasty hit, your stats hold much more weight than those of our modern era.
NFL was better when dominant defenses could run the show...
It certainly made the sport more interesting, if nothing else.
Defense they have now days is hard to watch. You can still hit a man hard just not with your helmut
That how football should be played
This is how football should be played
This why it's hard for me to concede Brady over Joe Montana as the GOAT. The pounding the QB and receivers took during Montana's era was exponentially rougher than today's game- really can't compare the two eras, but one thing is for certain, Brady wouldn't be dominating at 45 years old. He may have made it to 40, but he would have been a shell of himself from 15 plus years of vicious hits.
Brady won 3 rings in the early 2000s. Football was still extremely physical and violent then
@@gangweedpilled4977...and Brady was in his 20s. No doubt about Brady's quarterback skills and greatness, I'm simply saying that it's highly doubtful that he would still be playing at such a high level this late in his career under the 80's/90's rules, which were a lot less intrusive on the defense and more violent than even the 2000's- granted the players today are bigger, faster and stronger, but the guys in the 80's/90's weren't exactly small, nor slow and could hit just as hard...but that's just my opinion and conjecture, reasonable minds could disagree. With that being said, if I had to choose one quarterback to win in the clutch and/or a Superbowl, I'm going with Montana, but certainly Brady wouldn't be a bad choice either. I watched both play, both are flat out ballers.
Playing on turf also
@@gangweedpilled4977 still not fair to the QBs who suffered through some brutal shit in the 90s, 80s, 70s, back when everybody was alright with just a leather cap on the head way back in the day...Tom Brady for sure is the greatest of this generation, but not of all time. Calling Joe Montana the greatest also isn’t really fair to the older QBs before him but I’ll admit Joe still played in an era that was significantly rougher than the 2000s and most definitely the 2010s. The QB position is the hardest one to choose who is the GOAT because personally out of all positions, QBs have been impacted the most when it comes to refined and new rules. I’m glad QBs and other players play a safer game and their chances of ending up on a wheel chair with tubes in their nose and throat are lessened, but it’s a night and day difference over what professional QBs before the 2000s and QBs nowadays go through. Brady entered the NFL at the very end of a brutal era of football, he’s for sure taken some mean hits and had some minor concussions...however he along with every other QB were saved by many flags and rule changes which made the game easier and less risky.
Watching Joe Montana, I completely understand why you'd say that... Gotta them both
Chuck Cecil was vicious and the league wouldn't let him play in today's game! I miss the old time football!
That part ( 1:54 )where the announcers come back from commercial during Joe Theismann's leg break and they say, "we will not speculate to the extent of his injury until we have definitive word on what happened."
That is refreshing to hear. I wish we still did that because we speculate and then by the time the actual definitive word gets out, it's too late. Rumors mean more than facts nowadays.
Well i mean when you see a dudes leg snap in half i think its safe to assume whatever happened is very bad. And I dont even get what youre on about rumors meaning more than facts cause whenever an injury happens literally the first thing everyone waits for is what the teams official statement on the injury is. Speculation isnt some sort of new age thing, people are always gonna do that.
I miss football.
Aaaahhhh yes……. The NFL. I remember that. It’s kind of like this football league we have today, just with men.
Football in it's purest form
@Z A exactly how it should be played
@Z A not dangerous its football and they are grown men if you dont wanna take hits dont play the sport tired of you and all them players complain acting like females
Didn't know this Cecil guy,but dude is Savage asf 💪💪💪
Our “reverse angle camera” as if that was cutting edge technology 😂
Old NFL Highlights are the perfect description of “beautiful chaos”
*even the clean hits were harder back then!*
when football was football
That first one was brutal, i swear you can see the brain go into primal survival reboot mode live
A lot of memories those older ones. That Largent retaliation hit is still pretty cool, too.
Chuck Cecil is that DUDE 😂
So glad I grew up watching football in the 80''s and 90's before it was ruined. Walked away from the NFL maybe 7 years ago and never looked back. Every time i'm at somebody's house and there's a game on it takes about 30 seconds of watching to remind me why I left, and why I have no desire to go back.
Bruh relax you’re a fan relax
This is how it should be
Watching Atwater and Chuck lay people out when I was a kid only to grow up and see people try to diminish the offensive numbers of players during this era just shows how clueless people really are.
Man,today's players are so soft it's sad....can you imagine The assassin Jack Tatum putting a hit on these players of today.....Ronnie lott, Brian X Dawkins, John Lynch ,Mark Murphy, Chuck Cecil ,Lester Hayes.....even on the bump and run....today's players be crying.....Atwater was a hitter!
The point of the defense in the past was to make everyone on the offense afraid of having the ball in their hands!
This is the origin of the term, defense wins championships!
As amazing as it might appear- this is how I was taught to tackle in 8th grade back in 1963. I really enjoyed being a linebacker.
What's amazing about it ?....That's how you're supposed to tackle...You didn't do anything wrong it's not our fault a big chunk of the country have gone democrat woke wimp !
As a safety, you decapitate someone trying to run that post and either they're out of the game or they have "alligator arms" the rest of the game. Huge advantage in your team's favor. Now we're scared to give these players boo-boos
That's how I was taught to tackle in the 2000s even. It was not until early on in the 2010s when softness got into the nfl. Which made it easier to script really.
When football was football
Joe's injury wouldve triggered people in the 1880s
I miss old school football. Back when football a was fun to watch.
I fell in love with the game in the 80s because of the hard hits. Now they have so many pansy ass rules, it’s sickening.
Can we talk about the fact that man for the Vikings held on to the ball. That dude was a G....the majority of these were clean hits, a few headhunters but mostly just really solid form tackles.
I remember playing NFL BLITZ and it’s just a collection of these hits. What a difference
Dave Patton God rest his soul, made a beautiful catch one Sunday, and was knocked clean out for doing it. It was the best catch I've ever seen live.
If only i was alive to see the legendary Jack Tatum play.
Rest in Peace, Assassin 🏴☠️
Wasn't a dirty player either just was a hard hitting man. Well he redefined hard hitting
@@Duck_Dodgers He was a little dirty lol
@@emperorchad4492 - George Atkinson was the dirty one because he did not have Tatum's talent.
Those old school Raiders were DIRDAY
9:04 the greatest sound bite ever.
😂😂
Best ever era's of football 80,s and 90,s!
When Football was Football
Chuck Cecil and Steve Atwater are my hard hitting hurting safeties of the 90's...
This is how the game should still be played.
Dude the legend of that man LT and that leg. Before the internet it was like you were in awe of people that had seen it. Some could talk about it,others not so much. Video was sought after by a lot of football fans man.
It was legendary
Violence makes every sport better.
Too soft now a days nba 2
@@albertevans4002 You have never played football in your life lmao, you can't judge them for being soft from your couch. Every one of these hits woulda put you in the ER. Lmao.
There’s a lot of truth to it
I loved watching wrestling in the late 90s/early 00s aka the “attitude era”.
Bloody matches, trash talking, over the top stunts, and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Fast forward 15-20 years later and it’s “PGed” beyond belief.
Agreed. Tye older rules allowed for a more equal playing field for defense and offense, and records back then were really records due to rules not being skewed for the offense.
Watching some of these bring back some good memories!!! My Broncos finally winning a Super Bowl against the Packers!!!! I was watching that MNF when LT ended Joe Thiesman’s career…
A better era. NFL today isn't even a sports league. It's called an "Entertainment Company" it's no longer about the game anymore. It's about money. This new NFL is SOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFTT!!
Yup. Nfl in bed with vegas
It was never about the sport lol it was always “entertainment” the only thing now is that it’s overrun by corporate interests to the point where it’s watered down severely. At least the older stuff was entertaining.
I just noticed Plank had a 2fer on that interception. He hit the intended receiver and then knocks another guy out blocking for his guy. That's awesome and shows a lot of heart(which is sadly lacking in today's football since it's more about money than winning the superbowl).
Back when football was actually football
My son says current football players would destroy old school football players I just laugh there is no comparison old school would destroy these new football players
Nowadays if you touch the curly haired golden boy in Kansas City with your pinky finger that’s a two game suspension
Agreed, him and all the other QBs and WRs too smh. That’s why I have more respect from records made back in the day 70s 80s and early 90s doe to tye rules allowed for even play and physical play from defense and offense
The sheer *joy* in the reaction to Cecil's hit (3:21-3:50) cracked me up.
Give the guy a break. He's small, it meant a lot to him to impress the big boys. The running back still got 3 yards, and Cecil acted like he sacked the QB for a lost of 15.
Straight Legendary STUFF
Not to imply I didn't appreciate the hit. (grinning slyly)
I'm surprised the hit Antonio Brown took from the dirtiest player on the Bengals wasn't on this. Antonio Brown never was right again after that hit, it destroyed his career 😂
Back when football was a real game.
All these players can’t remember their kids’ names😂
The funniest thing about that Lt sound bite is the guy watching next to him with the head set on....kills me every time
@2:40 #46 got two hit sticks. He a real head hunter
Lmaooo bruh wanted all the smoke
Amazing time to watch football.80s, 90s. Hell, amazing time to live in America as well. Today, not so much
0:41 - Baker (Redskins) pancakes McDonald (Eagles) 1959
5:00 - Hardy Brown (49ers) hard knocks Ameche (Colts) 1955
8:01 - Night Train (Lions) derails Kilmer (49ers) 1961
I'd add George Wilson's great block from the 1940 championship game, where he wiped out two guys at once. ruclips.net/video/EEznr9nz_Wo/видео.html
Night-Train Lane, Stan 'The Lariat" Hansen close-line was legal when he played Just like the Roy Williams Horse Collar or the Deacon Jones Head Slap. All legislated out over time. GOD is good that here has been only one NFL fatality in a game.
For anybody of a certain age you grew up watching the NFL in the 60's, well, it WAS war back then, and the 70's as well, you had to have utter fearlessness to catch a ball over the middle, those boys back then were just full-on LETHAL!
Chuck Cecil hits actually looked clean
Slowly becoming my favorite RUclips video
Back when CTE among football players wasnt noticed until decades later. The rules about head cuncussion has been change for a more safer play.
It also made games boring to watch because they still throw flags on clean hits
There are still lots of concussions. Don't see how the rule changes have made much difference? 🤔
Somewhat, I think they over adjusted for the offense to succeed that’s why we see over inflated rules and old heads that played are just glad to be paid so back it even though I think most of the old greats know all these over hyped offenses wouldn’t be that way back in the 70s, 80s , and early 90s
It’s a contact sport you’re not gonna prevent injuries in a contact sport whatever you do
I didn't realize this was talking about way back in the day. Just put up highlights of the 2008 Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line. You'll feel the hits through the screen.
This is REAL FOOTBALL
DAMN RITE
Neal Anderson always looked like he was running on an ice rink😅
Had never heard of Chuck Cecil before this video! Solid hits there!!