Letters to the Editor
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Football goes soft
John Madden was speculating about the up and down career of Randy Moss, but he failed to notice the most obvious reason, the game has been sanitized. Forty year old quarterbacks can stand in the pocket all day, knowing that no one is going to put a 10,000 dollar hit on their aging frames.
Example A, a so called illegal hit in the Chargers game, when the Jags DB put a shoulder into the receiver at the moment he caught the ball. Legal hit, flagged for a penalty. The NFL made an ingame statement, that the rule allows for a discretionary call if the hit is felt to be excessive. Lucky the home team was in the lead at the time. No Randy Moss is back in the game because he can run into coverage without paying any of the consequences, at least not the kind of hits he would have gotten when he came into the game. Moss never liked running into coverage.
You have to be ready, because women will playing the game before long. Then probably old women, with bionic arms in wheel chairs. The games going soft, get used to it, with good players suiting up twenty times a year, how you can you help but get hurt. Baseball isn't much different, there is hardly a starting pitcher out there who can put an entire season together. Now we see Ricky Williams stepping in the secod half of the season. Fresh legs. That's the problem, not excessive violence, but long schedules.