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This was real football and this was a real football player.

Spider56 : 10/21/2021 11:30 am
Especially good listen between the 3:10- 4:00 minute mark.
The message hits home with the Giants of today.
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Great watch  
MattyKid : 10/21/2021 11:43 am : link
Thanks for posting
thanks for posting this  
Victor in CT : 10/21/2021 12:02 pm : link
he was one of a kind
Thanks for sharing  
jvm52106 : 10/21/2021 12:10 pm : link
that and man do I love the old school NFL films stuff.
is it just me  
GiantsLaw : 10/21/2021 12:16 pm : link
or do today's players simply not play with that type of reckless abandon. Everything feels so much more controlled, for lack of a better term. Maybe I'm seeing ghosts idk
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Straw Hat : 10/21/2021 12:47 pm : link
In comment 15423837 GiantsLaw said:
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or do today's players simply not play with that type of reckless abandon. Everything feels so much more controlled, for lack of a better term. Maybe I'm seeing ghosts idk


NFL rules have defenders by the balls. If you play like butkis nowadays it will be a 15 yard penalty on every drive.
He would have had a least  
GIANTS128 : 10/21/2021 12:47 pm : link
10 personal foul penalties if those playes happened in todays NFL
For better and for worse those days are gone  
arniefez : 10/21/2021 12:57 pm : link
and never coming back. Most of the greatest back 7 or 8 defensive players of the 60's, 70's and 80's would have to radically change their games to play in the current NFL. most probably couldn't do it and would be certain package only players with the exception of LT.

He'd still be the best player in the league if you dropped 1981 LT into 2021. That's how far ahead of his time he was. The speed, the motor, the football smarts, the power it would all play as well today as it did then.

Butkus would be a 2 down player in this NFL. Ronnie Lott would be a coverage liability. You get the idea.
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Joe Beckwith : 10/21/2021 1:02 pm : link
In comment 15423868 Straw Hat said:
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In comment 15423837 GiantsLaw said:


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or do today's players simply not play with that type of reckless abandon. Everything feels so much more controlled, for lack of a better term. Maybe I'm seeing ghosts idk



NFL rules have defenders by the balls. If you play like butkis nowadays it will be a 15 yard penalty on every drive.


It’s not just that, it’s the intensity that’s just not there. The lack of impact contact, seeing RBs truck LBs, shoulder and not arm tackles, the lack of mean in blocking. And not just the Giants, it’s leaguewide, even the very good teams.
Thats why that was real football  
Sneakers O'toole : 10/21/2021 1:04 pm : link
And today's neutered game is not. Defense is illegal now. It's a shit game. I barely watch games the Giants aren't playing in.
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Victor in CT : 10/21/2021 1:05 pm : link
In comment 15423887 Sneakers O'toole said:
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And today's neutered game is not. Defense is illegal now. It's a shit game. I barely watch games the Giants aren't playing in.


me neither
Unfortunately  
JFIB : 10/21/2021 1:53 pm : link
I can barely watch the games the Giants are playing in now.
OMFG  
BigBlueJ : 10/21/2021 2:12 pm : link
get over it already... this was a million years ago.
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Spider56 : 10/21/2021 2:31 pm : link
In comment 15423973 BigBlueJ said:
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get over it already... this was a million years ago.


Watch and listen to the tape at the 3:50 mark where the undisputed heart and soul of the team tells his teammates that they wouldn’t be 1-14 if they got their heads out of their asses and played to their ability. I suggest this holds true in NY in 2021.
Given the terrible physical and mental toll on those players  
81_Great_Dane : 10/21/2021 5:20 pm : link
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to go back to 60s-70s-80s style play. Players' brains (if not joints) were damaged and are still being damaged.

I loved watching football in that era, too, and if I were a better man, I'd give up football altogether. But at the very least, I can support efforts to make the game safer for the players and not pine for the good old days that turned guys like Mike Webster into homeless madmen and drove other guys, like Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, to suicide.
Butkus SportsCentury  
ghost718 : 10/25/2021 11:13 pm : link
Someone uploaded this recently
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Check that,that's the Giants video  
ghost718 : 10/25/2021 11:14 pm : link
Here's the right one
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