Love Strat, Doc...so many great memories playing MLB, NFL, and college football tournaments with my uncles and cousins in person. And while the computer versions make playing a little easier, it's just not the same.
I also agree that players today are better but the rules also allow them to be better. Just go back and watch Bengals' games from the 70s or 80s on YouTube. It was a much different game...or at least you could beat the hell out of other players legally. We all "cleaned up" a pile by blowing up a guy just before the whistle blew when playing youth or high school football. It was celebrated. Now it's 15 yards.
I swear Lamar looks like a marionette being moved around in jerky fashion in the backfield to buy him more time. This elusiveness does two things - makes defenders think twice when they wanna come after him, and buys him time for his receivers to get open. Hence, his passing numbers go up. It will be interesting to see how he does with age. Brady may have the advantage there.
Other than to suggest that because the NFL has consistently legislated Defense out of the game while bolstering Offense. And that today's QBs benefit from that. Or that the Art of tackling is a nearly dead one I won't argue with your assessment. Like everything else NFL, today's talent is an embarrassment of riches.
I’ll add another to your list with Jim Brown… show me a linebacker/edge more disruptive to an offensive game-plan than LT. Many a DC lost hair and sleep trying to figure out how to stop that guy.
Looking forward to seeing the Bills, hopefully win again!
I was in Walgreens today with one of the shooters who had been shot. He was on the floor screaming from pain right inside the entrance to the store. The store was put on lock down and other customers and I had to stay there until they got the guy out on a stretcher, which took about 30 minutes. Needless to say, I'm still shaking a little from the day. I was told by a witness that there were at least 20 shots where the shooting took place in front of Popeyes across the street where two men were murdered. The guy at Walgreens is in critical care tonight. He was definitely involved. A little too close to home. This is why I'm a country girl....And have a new appreciation for what police have to go through to keep us all safe.
My favorite was Bas-ket with the ping pong ball got a basketball ball.I would have loved strat o matic being a baseball stat geek . Walk Like a Man is one of those great deep track Bruce songs
Do you play the APBA advanced boards or APBA basic? I spent a lot of time playing APBA advanced back in the day. Played a full 154 game season with '76 Reds, '27 Yankees, and other great teams from the past, back in the early 1980's. '76 Reds finished first, 2 games ahead of the '27 Yankees. The rare play boards made it especially interesting.
NFL players today are mutants. Survival of the fittest at its essence. The payoff is enormous for these guys. High tech cutting edge training techniques and health and recovery all contribute. A lot of it beginning in HS. The speed, strength, size, on top of elite skills and skill building techniques. It's hard for us mere mortals to comprehend. There really is no comparison to years past.
Midway, Gettysburg and Risk were my favorites. Not much of a board game aficionado now unless it showcases my superior intellect. Think Chutes N Ladders!
Spot on with Tunnel of Love. Same with the song. I still like The River the best.
I played paper football not three weeks ago with friends at a bar. We bet 5 bucks a game. Two make-shift bar table top fields. First one to score 21 points or over wins the game. Winner plays winner and loser plays loser. One guy with arthritis in his kicking finger lost 60 bucks because he kept hooking his extra point field goals.
QB’s likeDan Marino and Dan Fouts would have eaten the league alive if the defensive rules were as restrictive then as they are now. Marino was throwing to two guys who made cookies in a hollow tree in the off-season and both didn’t have the advantage of the Super Glue gloves players wear today. I’m telling ya’, for the princely sum of 55 bucks, you too can make one-handed circus catches in your own backyard with Nike Vapor 8.0 gloves. Yeah, there have been 7 other versions of that glove with each series being stickier than the last. If you mistakenly clap your hands when wearing the 8.0, it would take an act of a do-something Congress to get your hands apart.
How would Allen/Jackson do way down yonder on the Chattahoochee(anyone? anyone?)playing an old school NFL defense where the game plan is to separate the QB’s head from his body? Both might get their run yards but eventually someone hits them with a haymaker near the sidelines and the next thing they know Conrad Dobler comes off the bench to chew on their fingers.
Players today have to be protected or they would literally die. It's basic physics. The speed, power, and strength of todays average player is to great for the human body to handle the type of plays that were permitted in the past. Let's get real here. Just put the metrics side by side or just see the difference. Players of past did not train year round with high tech or scientifically backed methods or nutrition. No comparison.
Maybe. But those Old School lineman would have to catch Jackson first. And Allen is bigger than some of the masters of mayhem ever were. So is Lamar. Only guy who'd still stand out,IMO, is LT
The hurt comes from a running start. Ronnie Lott. Steve Atwater. John Lynch. And the OG “He Got Jacked Up” Tom Jackson. Receivers use to fear going over the middle. Now we might see only a few “alligator arms” a season. All of this benefits the QB’s stats. I agree with you that their are several HOF caliber QB’s plying right now and a handful of receivers but they are doing it under new rules than OG’s did.
Modern QB’s and receivers are a protected class and rightly so. None of them have their heads on a swivel. Fear was a powerful motivator in the old days. I remember seeing this play and I thought the football was his head.
I Remember When that pun was funny. Totally agree with your take on defenses today. The person who checks your purchases at Cosco offers more resistance.
I grew up playing APBA and and as a kid, I visited its home in Lancaster, PA near where my mom grew up. My best friend was a Pirates fan and I was a Reds fan. Many titanic struggles those summers. One summer we each built table top stadiums. Epic. I wonder what box in the basement holds my old game….
Not exactly a board game per se, but.................... My 8 year old grandson got a chess game for Christmas. Brought it over a couple of weeks ago. "How in the world do you know how to play chess?" "I taught myself on my phone. Do you wanna play?" Well, of course!! I love winning. I do not care if it is against an 8 year old. I had not played chess since high school, circa 1975. Famous last words from me; "I am gonna kick your butt and I am going to feel good about doing it." So far, it is 2 wins for me and 2 wins for Aiden. I think that is what is called Humble Pie.
Always felt that Bengals fans are big fans of football writ large due to a history of personal irrelevance. If you JUST followed your team, you wouldn't have too much there. While that's fortunately shifted a bit, I still look forward to the playoffs as an extension of the holidays. These games coming up may very well outdo the Super Bowl--Sunday in Buffalo will be an absolute treat. The fact that it's my bday weekend and we het Monday off for MLK will make it even better. I know we're supposed to hate B'more--but Lamar has always impressed. He has shaken off the doubters who questioned his L'ville experience and/or the idea that he's a RB who can somewhat throw. He's taken it all in stride with hard work and humility to become absolutely elite. That said-hard to get to Ravens -1 against Joshy. It will be an absolute treat of a game which could go a variety of directions.
I've been an avid sports fan since I was little. My parents got me Sports Illustrated when I was in Junior High. Sports, just like that venerable magazine, evolve through the years. That said, I tend to come up with how great players are in 10 year increments' How would Chase do in the sixties ? The " stickum boys " would thug him to oblivion. Fielding surfaces, rules,workout routines, dietary plans, and sports medicine have all evolved over the years. Pitchers of the sixties didn't pitch on the lowered mounds of the seventies. Basketball players drove the lane against the Russels, Chamberlins, and Reeds at their own risk. How much better would " Pistol " Pete be with a three point line ? How many baseball players would have had better stats without the now illegal shift ? It goes on and on. Great players of one decade deserve their place for that decade and it's hard to compare each one..
Love Strat, Doc...so many great memories playing MLB, NFL, and college football tournaments with my uncles and cousins in person. And while the computer versions make playing a little easier, it's just not the same.
I also agree that players today are better but the rules also allow them to be better. Just go back and watch Bengals' games from the 70s or 80s on YouTube. It was a much different game...or at least you could beat the hell out of other players legally. We all "cleaned up" a pile by blowing up a guy just before the whistle blew when playing youth or high school football. It was celebrated. Now it's 15 yards.
I swear Lamar looks like a marionette being moved around in jerky fashion in the backfield to buy him more time. This elusiveness does two things - makes defenders think twice when they wanna come after him, and buys him time for his receivers to get open. Hence, his passing numbers go up. It will be interesting to see how he does with age. Brady may have the advantage there.
Other than to suggest that because the NFL has consistently legislated Defense out of the game while bolstering Offense. And that today's QBs benefit from that. Or that the Art of tackling is a nearly dead one I won't argue with your assessment. Like everything else NFL, today's talent is an embarrassment of riches.
I’ll add another to your list with Jim Brown… show me a linebacker/edge more disruptive to an offensive game-plan than LT. Many a DC lost hair and sleep trying to figure out how to stop that guy.
Looking forward to seeing the Bills, hopefully win again!
I was in Walgreens today with one of the shooters who had been shot. He was on the floor screaming from pain right inside the entrance to the store. The store was put on lock down and other customers and I had to stay there until they got the guy out on a stretcher, which took about 30 minutes. Needless to say, I'm still shaking a little from the day. I was told by a witness that there were at least 20 shots where the shooting took place in front of Popeyes across the street where two men were murdered. The guy at Walgreens is in critical care tonight. He was definitely involved. A little too close to home. This is why I'm a country girl....And have a new appreciation for what police have to go through to keep us all safe.
Kate, just read the story about the shooting at Popeyes/Walgreen on Cincinnati.com. Just awful.
So glad you are unharmed and safe.
Thank you, Steve.
And you did just that Dad👏🏻
My favorite was Bas-ket with the ping pong ball got a basketball ball.I would have loved strat o matic being a baseball stat geek . Walk Like a Man is one of those great deep track Bruce songs
Do you play the APBA advanced boards or APBA basic? I spent a lot of time playing APBA advanced back in the day. Played a full 154 game season with '76 Reds, '27 Yankees, and other great teams from the past, back in the early 1980's. '76 Reds finished first, 2 games ahead of the '27 Yankees. The rare play boards made it especially interesting.
NFL players today are mutants. Survival of the fittest at its essence. The payoff is enormous for these guys. High tech cutting edge training techniques and health and recovery all contribute. A lot of it beginning in HS. The speed, strength, size, on top of elite skills and skill building techniques. It's hard for us mere mortals to comprehend. There really is no comparison to years past.
Agreed. Same with NBA. Freakish talent all over the place and more of it than at any other time
Midway, Gettysburg and Risk were my favorites. Not much of a board game aficionado now unless it showcases my superior intellect. Think Chutes N Ladders!
Spot on with Tunnel of Love. Same with the song. I still like The River the best.
I'm partial to CandyLand
I played paper football not three weeks ago with friends at a bar. We bet 5 bucks a game. Two make-shift bar table top fields. First one to score 21 points or over wins the game. Winner plays winner and loser plays loser. One guy with arthritis in his kicking finger lost 60 bucks because he kept hooking his extra point field goals.
LOL
QB’s likeDan Marino and Dan Fouts would have eaten the league alive if the defensive rules were as restrictive then as they are now. Marino was throwing to two guys who made cookies in a hollow tree in the off-season and both didn’t have the advantage of the Super Glue gloves players wear today. I’m telling ya’, for the princely sum of 55 bucks, you too can make one-handed circus catches in your own backyard with Nike Vapor 8.0 gloves. Yeah, there have been 7 other versions of that glove with each series being stickier than the last. If you mistakenly clap your hands when wearing the 8.0, it would take an act of a do-something Congress to get your hands apart.
How would Allen/Jackson do way down yonder on the Chattahoochee(anyone? anyone?)playing an old school NFL defense where the game plan is to separate the QB’s head from his body? Both might get their run yards but eventually someone hits them with a haymaker near the sidelines and the next thing they know Conrad Dobler comes off the bench to chew on their fingers.
Players today have to be protected or they would literally die. It's basic physics. The speed, power, and strength of todays average player is to great for the human body to handle the type of plays that were permitted in the past. Let's get real here. Just put the metrics side by side or just see the difference. Players of past did not train year round with high tech or scientifically backed methods or nutrition. No comparison.
Maybe. But those Old School lineman would have to catch Jackson first. And Allen is bigger than some of the masters of mayhem ever were. So is Lamar. Only guy who'd still stand out,IMO, is LT
The hurt comes from a running start. Ronnie Lott. Steve Atwater. John Lynch. And the OG “He Got Jacked Up” Tom Jackson. Receivers use to fear going over the middle. Now we might see only a few “alligator arms” a season. All of this benefits the QB’s stats. I agree with you that their are several HOF caliber QB’s plying right now and a handful of receivers but they are doing it under new rules than OG’s did.
Modern QB’s and receivers are a protected class and rightly so. None of them have their heads on a swivel. Fear was a powerful motivator in the old days. I remember seeing this play and I thought the football was his head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uGRQQIRsuI
I Remember When that pun was funny. Totally agree with your take on defenses today. The person who checks your purchases at Cosco offers more resistance.
I grew up playing APBA and and as a kid, I visited its home in Lancaster, PA near where my mom grew up. My best friend was a Pirates fan and I was a Reds fan. Many titanic struggles those summers. One summer we each built table top stadiums. Epic. I wonder what box in the basement holds my old game….
Not exactly a board game per se, but.................... My 8 year old grandson got a chess game for Christmas. Brought it over a couple of weeks ago. "How in the world do you know how to play chess?" "I taught myself on my phone. Do you wanna play?" Well, of course!! I love winning. I do not care if it is against an 8 year old. I had not played chess since high school, circa 1975. Famous last words from me; "I am gonna kick your butt and I am going to feel good about doing it." So far, it is 2 wins for me and 2 wins for Aiden. I think that is what is called Humble Pie.
Always felt that Bengals fans are big fans of football writ large due to a history of personal irrelevance. If you JUST followed your team, you wouldn't have too much there. While that's fortunately shifted a bit, I still look forward to the playoffs as an extension of the holidays. These games coming up may very well outdo the Super Bowl--Sunday in Buffalo will be an absolute treat. The fact that it's my bday weekend and we het Monday off for MLK will make it even better. I know we're supposed to hate B'more--but Lamar has always impressed. He has shaken off the doubters who questioned his L'ville experience and/or the idea that he's a RB who can somewhat throw. He's taken it all in stride with hard work and humility to become absolutely elite. That said-hard to get to Ravens -1 against Joshy. It will be an absolute treat of a game which could go a variety of directions.
I've been an avid sports fan since I was little. My parents got me Sports Illustrated when I was in Junior High. Sports, just like that venerable magazine, evolve through the years. That said, I tend to come up with how great players are in 10 year increments' How would Chase do in the sixties ? The " stickum boys " would thug him to oblivion. Fielding surfaces, rules,workout routines, dietary plans, and sports medicine have all evolved over the years. Pitchers of the sixties didn't pitch on the lowered mounds of the seventies. Basketball players drove the lane against the Russels, Chamberlins, and Reeds at their own risk. How much better would " Pistol " Pete be with a three point line ? How many baseball players would have had better stats without the now illegal shift ? It goes on and on. Great players of one decade deserve their place for that decade and it's hard to compare each one..