Quote:Probably not. Internet, our societies focus on health (or the idea of it), players DUI's being headine news, etc... have led to that. Internet though is the driving force. Locally though we just went through an awful roller coaster of Justin Blackmon and he was also known at the beach bar scene.

 

And on that same token, Blackmon would probably still be playing.  Being 61, I was brought up in a time when Mickey Mantle, and Whitey Ford, Greg Luzinski, Sonny Jurgenson and countless others were known to be out all night and at times show up for games hung over or drunk and it was pretty much laughed off.  I guess it's just a change in the way society views these things over the ages.   Like I said, I just find it kind of fascinating.

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