Quote:If the original poster had said maybe since 1990 or so, then I can agree with it. However, the 70's was a totally different style of football. Some names that were really "game changers" back then in no particular order. Tony Dorsett, Herschel Walker, Franco Harris, Walter Payton, Earl Campbell, O. J. Simpson, Larry Csonka. It used to be that running back was "the" position.


Great quarterbacks from back in the 70's off the top of my head. Roger Staubauch, Fran Tarkenton, Ken Stabler, Terry Bradshaw and Bob Griese.

In most recent history that is true but this ball got started rolling back in the 70's this didn't just occur over the last 10 years. It s just 25 years later the players and preperarion has changed to adapt to it.


Football at all levels was running and stopping the run. When the NFL changes, it takes a while for the kids and colleges to adopt this style of play.


Now these kids have qb mechanics and nutrition down pat by the age of 17. It's a different game and the 70's is when it started. If you look that's when the proliferation of the qb position began to shape up.


Yeah guys like Unitis and Stars were around but they were the pioneers of their day. The league go involved in the 70's to create more Starrs and Otto Grahams.


Now we have that and more than ever.

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