http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKVLx6KxKw
In this NFL Films piece you see players doing things that were dangerous and Steve Sabol himself said they didn't start changing things until about the time this film was made.
How Come The NFL Let Certain things Slide?
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MIKEBENNIDICT
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How Come The NFL Let Certain things Slide?
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BD Sullivan
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Re: How Come The NFL Let Certain thing Slide?
Too cheap (or apathetic) to get them fixed. Tex Schramm's infamous attitude about complaints concerning games on turf: "If we tell you to play on concrete, you'll do it!"
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RichardBak
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Re: How Come The NFL Let Certain things Slide?
When I was in the Marines back in the early '70s, we often played two-hour-long games of tackle football on cement. Too young and stupid and gung-ho to think anything about it. You wouldn't dare play on whatever grass surfaces there were on base. Tear up a lawn and you were looking at office hours. But hell, if I was 21 today, pay me a couple million to play on cement and I'd do it.