Sports Today vs Sports of Yesterday talk

[Mikey]

I dunno

Seems like some of them big bruisers of the past would easily run over a modern muscleman of today.

It would be like a Mack Truck vs Bigfoot ... Bigfoot looks pretty but would crumple right up into nothing.

[kingdom warrior]

Today's sports players are infinitely in way better condition than yesteryears sports stars.
Most Athletes didn't come into camp in top shape back in the day. Where today's athlete does because this is what he does for a living. Most Athletes held other jobs when not playing sports because the pay was not very good so they needed another job.

In football in the old days they would find just big old guys to play line no real weight training......Todays line men are beast who lift weights.......

Todays athlete is far superior than the athletes from the past.....and I'm not talking about steroid users either.

[Mikey]

I'm not really a sports fans but I do watch occasional games.

One thing i've often wondered about was how would today's teams and individual people stand up to yesterday's teams and people ?

As for yesterday's people/teams ... let's say the 70's

Seems to me football players on average used to be a lot bigger back then... I've heard some rules are different today too.

This is just not about football .. It could be any sports ... i'm just using football as an example.

If you took today's best team and they played the best team of the 70's, who would win ? ... would it be a landslide ?

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