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@Glis -- I am being dismissive because you spouted off one of the oldest and dumbest assertions about sports: "Players these days suck/are a bunch of f***ing p*ssies compared to players of My Favorite Era."
By any measurable standards, professional sportsmen today are larger, faster, more explosive, better trained, better coached, better fed, have better medical care, etc. than in any time in professional sports history.
Remember when William "The Refrigerator" Perry was a minor celebrity because he was unusually big for a football player? Nowadays, he'd be an average-size lineman out of the league because he's too slow to keep up with other similar-sized lineman who are much quicker.
In baseball, the average speed of pitches keeps going up and up.
In basketball, shooting percentages are near an all-time high and this year the league is seeing an explosin of tremendous offensive production not seen since the 1960s (when teams took shots much more quickly, resulting in about 20% more possessions than the modern game).
One of the consequences of the bigger-faster-stronger athletes in modern sports is injuries, when they happen, can be more severe. A running back being tackled by a 310 lb sculpted specimen is different from a running back being tackled by a 240-lb man with 12% body fat who moves 15% slower than the aforementioned specimen. Energy of collision is proportional to mass times the square of the velocity, and both mass and velocity have been steadily rising for decades. Human bones and connective tissues can only take so much punishment, and the bones/tissues of professional athletes take much more punishment in the current era than in the past.
Now, maybe you preferred the style of play in various sports in previous eras. Maybe "3 yards and a cloud of dust" football was to your liking. Maybe you reveled in the NBA's Pro Wrestling era when scores were 79-74 and isolation scorers dominated. Maybe you liked baseball games that ended 8-7 because managers left their 4th-best starting pitchers in for 8 innings no matter what, instead of bringing in endless streams of relief pitchers with 95 mph fastballs.
If so, that's your right. That's a taste-based preference and their is no "right" answer to questions of taste-based preference.
But you made assertions about the quality of play and character/skill/toughness of players which are simply unsupported (and commonly the kind of assertions older people make about how everything was better Back in the Day).
Oh SKOS I really do like you and respect you though. Sorry man but I couldn't help myself.
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