Talk about "bad ass", they probably would have head butted Roger Goodell if he would have dared show his face on the field.
They called Jack Tatum, "The Assassin", and rightly so. Unfortunately Daryl Stingley was one of his victims. I remember talk about a point system that the players on that team used. Points were awarded on a basis of how hard you hit a player and how long he stayed down, carried off the field, or had to leave the game.
For us older generation sport fans, we can remember when football was football. Do you remember Dick Butkus? Deacon Jones once said, " every time he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery not the hospital".
Football has evolved into a sport that is a lot safer than years ago. Eventually they will remove tackling as being to dangerous and you'll just have to slap the guy with the ball and holler "I gotcha".
Oh, a bit of trivia, In 1905 there were 18 deaths from football. Teddy Roosevelt, supposedly was involved in changing or saving the game. Deaths were attributed to "unnecessary roughness".
