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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 985714" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Bingo. The decline in tackle football is a matter of simple physics. The players are much, much bigger then they used to be and their speed has, in anything, increased. Result = the force of the collisions is greater and the chance of injury and long term. damage to organs involved in the collisions is greater. My high school team had one player who weighed more then 220 and he was slow too boot. My college team had one player over 220, but he came in at 235. The only players we had who were the same size you find today were the LBs and the RBs; everybody else was smaller. <em>Everybody</em> was slower; our fastest guy was our TB who ran the 100 yards at 10.4. (Since, at 215, he often outweighed the DTs for our opponents we did ok.) </p><p></p><p>Now, look at the pleyers. Paul's last OL, so castigated by TFG, averaged around 6'4", 291. Not very big by todays standards, but the Land of the Giants compared to tackle football in the past. The results are plain to see, especially for pro players where the increase in size and speed is most noticeable. Further, it is certainly true that safety measures haven't done much to allay fears about this. The helmets are about as good as they are going to get and the players are, more and more, ignoring padding below the waist. Braces can help the linemen, but even there there is reluctance to use them until injury forces it.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line: I think tackle football is going the way of pro boxing; i.e. a slow decline in prominence and at least partial replacement by other sports. I <em>hate</em> this. I was brought up on and played tackle football. I love it. But parents are no longer willing to support it at the level of the past. That means the player pool is drying up. And there it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 985714, member: 265"] Bingo. The decline in tackle football is a matter of simple physics. The players are much, much bigger then they used to be and their speed has, in anything, increased. Result = the force of the collisions is greater and the chance of injury and long term. damage to organs involved in the collisions is greater. My high school team had one player who weighed more then 220 and he was slow too boot. My college team had one player over 220, but he came in at 235. The only players we had who were the same size you find today were the LBs and the RBs; everybody else was smaller. [I]Everybody[/I] was slower; our fastest guy was our TB who ran the 100 yards at 10.4. (Since, at 215, he often outweighed the DTs for our opponents we did ok.) Now, look at the pleyers. Paul's last OL, so castigated by TFG, averaged around 6'4", 291. Not very big by todays standards, but the Land of the Giants compared to tackle football in the past. The results are plain to see, especially for pro players where the increase in size and speed is most noticeable. Further, it is certainly true that safety measures haven't done much to allay fears about this. The helmets are about as good as they are going to get and the players are, more and more, ignoring padding below the waist. Braces can help the linemen, but even there there is reluctance to use them until injury forces it. Bottom line: I think tackle football is going the way of pro boxing; i.e. a slow decline in prominence and at least partial replacement by other sports. I [I]hate[/I] this. I was brought up on and played tackle football. I love it. But parents are no longer willing to support it at the level of the past. That means the player pool is drying up. And there it is. [/QUOTE]
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