(08-23-2021, 04:48 PM)iHaunting Raven Wrote:

(08-23-2021, 04:03 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I don't know if I would call it "dirty" when looking at the rules back then, but it was pretty nasty.  Donovan Darius was one of my favorite players back then because he was a punishing hard hitter.

The "modern era" of football has gotten soft.

It was a dirty, that's why he was ejected and fined. He was an idiot who started to do that crap and got away with it a few times until he sent Ferguson to the hospital.

Anyway, Darius was mediocre at best vs the pass. There were much better Safeties who also delivered much better hits without being ...... by just going with their forearm to the head of a guy trying to catch the ball.
Gotta love the "has gotten soft", sure, who doesn't love watching players get sent to the hospital and end their careers sooner than expected? or just end up with mental issues, we really should go back to that 

Meh... cry me a river.  You are probably too young to remember players being bloodied during/after games up to and including the quarterback.  That's when football was played the way that it was designed.

Newsflash for you, players used to wear more padding and protection than they do now.  It has always been a violent game.  It's just more of a "softer gentler" violent game than it used to be.

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