Old School NFL Football Hits That Would Trigger People Today

A look at what NFL football used to look like before rule changes began to soften the game.
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[@Woodsman9273]

Back when being a MLB and Safety were the most badass positions on defense

[@capswole81]

Facts!

[@CX0909]

Bullshit! Who’s more badass, the dude who sits waiting for a guy who has a job to do and basically sucker punches him because he’s not looking, or the guy who does his job knowing that some loudmouth bitch is going to put him in the hospital, after talking a bunch of shit to him while he’s on the ground, not because of superior talent but because he had an easy free shot….? Taking a guys head off because he can’t see you, and ending his ability to make a living, doesn’t take skill. It doesn’t make a player a bad ass.

[@jcpenny3606]

Back when the Offensive and Defensive linesmans all end up in a pile after every possession. Now, they're all just standing up and pushing each back and forth.

[@xJavier009]

Still...

[@matthius1692]

If the defense was still allowed to hit like this we wouldn't have to watch receivers celebrate and talk $hit every time they get a first down. NFL defenses used to have a way of keeping people in check.

[@thecoolkids1000]

Back when receivers were scared to catch a pass up the middle.

[@britneyystaples91]

Yup. As soon as they took those hits away you start seeing 44 year olds have 5309 yard 43 td seasons, and college scramble type QBs like Patrick Mahomes having 4500-5000 yard seasons. People think the QBs are just better nowadays but its not true at all. I mean Brady had a 50 td - 4800 yard season under old school rules but im talking about all the other QBs throwing for 4k-5k yards a season.

[@bluesdealer]

Yeah, it is supposed to be a risk for those twinkletoes! lol (former linebacker here)

[@joejackson9986]

and now we have some of the softest wr's out there...like OBJ

[@dutdut2.091]

@@joejackson9986 put Julio Jones or Deandre Hopkins in the 70s and they genuinely would have 500 yards a game

[@joejackson9986]

@@dutdut2.091 nah. Dudes would be crushed by head-first tackles.

[@UndreamedFool17]

Player gets decapitated, announcer: but did he hold onto the ball?

[@ReapersLove69]

as it should be😔

[@ArielBojorquez]

Triggered

[@jacobwalther1769]

2:23 no but cmon what a catch 😂

[@RC-bh9xy]

The game must go on!!

[@henrybartholomew]

Decapitation is awesome

[@chriswills936]

With all the changes in rules over the years it's a testament to just how incredibly good Jerry Rice was. He played in an era where headhunters were allowed and his numbers are still largely untouchable.

[@Paytonwh]

Facts!

[@deplorableokie]

🐐

[@Mr.Hall3850]

How a little more respect for defensive players today ? With all these rules that make impossible to play defense. Especially the CBs. No one ever talks about how hard it has to be to be an elite cornerback in todays NFL

[@WaveRider1989]

It is unfair to tye defense. Some penalities agaisnt the defense are stirfht up ruins the game to say lets not play ​tackle football at all. @Mr.Hall3850

[@vanjones1749]

Exactly unlike todays WR inflated rules numbers

[@alatreon7451]

Everyone says QBs from back then would suck in today’s NFL. I’ve been a proponent of the opposite. The defenses from this era were absolutely brutal and the runningback was a much bigger commodity, but guys like Dan Marino still managed to have some of the greatest quarterback seasons of all time. Imagine them against defenses of the modern era.

[@olal9904]

They'd get creamed. The game has developed so much. In both raw athleticism and fundamental gameplan.

[@TravisMcGee151]

@@olal9904Agree players are so much bigger faster and stronger today.

[@olal9904]

@@TravisMcGee151 look at the averages in height in the league, they've gone nothing but up. Today linemen are on average 6'5, 40 years ago they were 6'1

[@kennyo6582]

@@olal9904 concussion protocols, 60% of kickoffs result in touchbacks now, spotting the ball on the 25 yard line after the kick, you can't even touch the QB anymore, they kickoff from the 35 yard line now, no hitting of a defenseless player, the game now is soft compared to what it was. Total wussy a$$ football. What do you think the 6' 3'' 245 pound Lawerence Taylor would have done to Tom Brady? He would have been thrown outta of every game today.

[@kennyo6582]

@@olal9904 The '85 Bears O-Line = Mark Bortz 6' 6'' 285, Jay Hilgenberg 6'3'' 260, Tom Thayer 6'4'' 265, Keith Van Horne 6' 7'' 285, Jim Covert 6' 4'' 280. Average height thru out the league was 6' 4' for offensive lineman in the 80's. It was 6' 3'' for lineman in the 70's. 40 years ago was '83. You are way off.

[@deancarr4507]

Man I do miss the probowl being a real game. Crumpler is also an extremely underrated and forgotten TE

[@deontelewis6768]

Bdawk knocked him into the shadow realm they haven’t talked about it since

[@kt420ish]

Crump!

[@NinersFan69]

Crumpler mid he’s not underrated lol

[@Raykibb1]

I’ll never forget LT’s reaction as he heard Thiesman’s leg break.

[@isaacserrato4913]

I literally had to skip the replay for that

[@Gamerguy-501]

@@YankeesLife was he at the game for that

[@davidca96]

He was geniunely shook up, he felt terrible even though Joe and everyone else knew he didnt purposely snap his leg. I was watching that game with my Dad live on tv (not at the game).

[@seanbond6454]

Moorman’s left leg still stands to this day

[@primak3655]

It was understandable, he was worried he may lose the leg after that kind of injury. It was about as gruesome and injury as I have ever seen and a moment of pure panic

[@primak3655]

Cecil was a monster. You could just feel and hear that blunt impact. Beautiful hit

[@nigelhornberry8062]

True maniac. Just loved hitting people. And I think a lot of his would be perfectly legal today

[@steveguse4481]

Scud!!!

[@jayramsey690]

How about that Bill Romanowski?

[@alphapimp]

Never heard of him until now and wow what a scary dude lol

[@crzycolchris]

Bro needs to be PED tested today 😂

[@hazyfupayme]

Brutal plays from the 80s and 90s, mixed with some .04 second murder in the 60s and 70s. 👀🕊

[@kombijr]

Lmao like little old timey reel with the Pe-any playing 🎹

[@johnsmith-mi7fb]

uploader is a noob young r e t a r d for thinking 2000's is "old-school"

[@scmrecords]

The random gruesome hits from the 50/60s that keep popping up randomly is killing me 😂

[@bobbullethalf]

I miss those type of hits.

[@vanjones1749]

agreed, it would put some respect on all these passing records from back in the day

[@kdeb92968]

💯

[@tylermoore397]

I for one think CTE is bad

[@selahdavis8378]

I think Chuck cicil was more scary than Ronnie Lott because of how crazy he was. Most underrated hard hitting safety

[@larryhgardnergproductionsi8861]

Right

[@ronfroehlich4697]

I always feel like nobody remembers how dangerous Chuck Cecil was

[@Duck_Dodgers]

No one hit like Tatum though

[@Fulcrum205]

That hit on the Redskins fullback was the nastiest hit I've ever seen.

[@uberboomer8670]

So glad to see him on here! My man brought the lumber at 190 lbs!!

[@jamestyson458]

Till this day, Lawrence Taylor is still haunted by that hit

[@shaunjenkinson5089]

Remember watching it, ended Joe’s career. Could see how upset he was

[@peterchase5198]

When Atwater hit the 'nightmare', and turned him into a bed time story. 😂😂

[@edwardoutlawjr8154]

Put ole boy to bed

[@scottjones9973]

Shows how great Christian Okoye was, that a guy stopping him one time was such a big deal.

[@gregpayton6935]

​@@scottjones9973one time but a generational hit. Okoye was never the same.

[@chazj2175]

The problem i have with atwater's hit okoye was running half hearted that game his wife had just lost there baby and he had left his feet right before the hit and the fact that Okoye had ran over atwater many times in other games

[@jackcarraway4707]

Mahomes and Kelce wouldn't last five minutes in this era.

[@NafisB215]

Most Under look comment!!! This is realistically true!!!

[@JDobrozsi1]

How about five minutes or less around John Lynch or Lawrence Taylor lol. They would have been gone after about the first hit or two

[@jaylove7391]

No way Tom Brady plays until he’s 45 in this era.

[@WTMNNJR]

He started at the end of this era. If he was drafted when Bledsoe was drafted he wouldn’t make 2007

[@thegodfather768]

@@WTMNNJR why wouldn't make it he's the toughest sob to ever play the game

[@mrswolls]

What years are the era

[@Marcello2005]

@@thegodfather768Brady sure as hell isn’t even close to being tough 😭

[@littlegreenman2014]

He had good pass protection with the patriots

[@steveswangler6373]

The Lawrence Taylor sack that broke Joe Theismann’s leg was neither a hard hit or a dirty hit. It was a perfectly legal tackle, even by today’s standards. It’s just the way Theismann’s body and leg twisted is what made the break. Should not have been included

[@HolySpicoli]

The vast majority of these are clean hits even today

[@nicks2581]

As soft as the current league is, it would have been flagged 😢

[@chadbinger8700]

@@nicks2581 How would it be flagged. You’re just talking out your ass

[@jwdathefax377]

The title doesn’t say anything about the hits being illegal.

[@jwdathefax377]

@@HolySpicoli”The vast majority” is a stretch.🙄

[@LusterBrand]

Back then you had two WRs..one who was fast to go deep...and one who wasn't afraid to go over the middle

[@stevenwolford3754]

Damn you had some unseen hits on this one. Great Comp.

[@jesselancaster7]

Good Times!!! When Football was Football!!!

[@vanjones1749]

Agreed.. back when a running or passing record was real and not assisted by overly skewed rules for the offense to succeed

[@DialloMoore503]

Am I the only who notices that every pass play these days is from the shotgun formation? Whatever happened to the drop back from the pistol formation?

[@geminiman7791]

Sammy White's catch at 2:10 is truly one of the best I've seen. At 2:26 you can see he caught a right hook from #26 and then took one of the meanest helmet shots from the assassin himself Jack Tatum. Dirty? Maybe. But a product of its time. Even if modern players are athletically superior to the men of those days, I doubt any of them could catch a pass- let alone survive a shot like that.

[@MatrixxUnplugged]

if old players are athletically inferior how did they survive? yall old niggas just say anything.

[@JonesyisP5]

I feel like a ton of old school guys could make it

[@shad3128]

I think the new schppl guys arent superior. More rules tech gear supplements fancy numbers etc. Yeah but the old cats could play the game and were toughest dudes around. Never gave less than 100% on the field

[@trupimp2211]

@@shad3128 let’s see them tough guys meet Derrick Henry in the Gap. Or try and block someone like Aaron Donald or Myles Garrett. I love the old game but damn man show some respect to the people playing the game currently

[@joshuajackson5656]

@@trupimp2211 Power runningback like that would have his knees destroyed just like Bettis did. Everyone knows go for the knees and old school players would do that to him. His career would be just as short as Robert Smith's was.

[@STECHGUY]

These guys were taking more damage for less money. Badass individuals.

[@mav40420]

They were just happy they could play.

[@yungcash8800]

This new NFL is boring the offense scoring long TD PASSES ALMOST EVERY PLAY

[@KWillo]

Back in those days, the NFL was essentially mercenary work.

[@vanjones1749]

@@yungcash8800agreed it doesn’t seem earned to an extent

[@redmondisaiah16]

They was hitting so hard that they were knocking their own teammates out.

[@joeseddit]

used to be that big hits were Highlight material. you were encouraged to intimidate the opposing player, or at least not back down. It eventually got the point where there was "bounties" on the opposing QB to intentionally knock him out of the game (the Ravens won a Super Bowl this way), so rules had to be put in place. But I miss this about old school football. But I miss the bad weather games on natural grass the most, I think. Those days are gone, even at the high school level. No more mud and blood.

[@russellbrooker2122]

The game went soft thats how defence should be played

[@targetegrat]

I can't stand all the new stadiums are dome. Soon every team will be playing indoors.

[@whoopityscoop9575]

Yeah it’s so stupid how you can’t end a guys career by giving him a brain bleed anymore. It was so much better when the defender and receiver had to leave the game forever after one hit. Gosh, the old days were so much better. Why’d they even start considering player safety? So dumb.

[@joeseddit]

@@whoopityscoop9575 settle down, skippy. I pointed out that the new rules had to be put into place 'cuz it was getting out of hand.

[@NikkiDickson-ui9ix]

I miss career ending brain bleeds in football. That’s what I miss most!

[@CX0909]

5:57 That was just a good clean hit, led with the shoulder, looked good and got the players and crowd excited, but most importantly the receiver got up. That’s good football. Hard hits but players keep playing.

[@blbynum84]

PA Announcer: "Folks, we are all first-place winners today!" Sean Taylor: 8:18

[@DJSpocktimus]

1:01 you know it's bad when Lawrence Taylor is the one waiving over the medical team 😬

[@Merino33]

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[@joshg.6315]

Steve Atwater would 100% put your lights out over the middle. World class hitter.

[@KTF0]

Young people: Why were completion percentages so low back then?? Pathetic QB throws pass up the middle, Safety sends WR to the graveyard.

[@essenenaziriteyirmeyahu851]

I remember watching that one with Steve Atwater in the 90's, but before that I knew he was a hall of famer. He would make receivers pay. Willing to give up your body to make a play is absolutely amazing.

[@GeoAce777]

ya ya! back then it was the National Tackle League ;-)

[@LAshades]

Killing yourself for a little bit of money and a lifetime of pain is not amazing at all

[@scottdupont3801]

How bout the greatest ever Monday night football The Nigerian Nightmare Christian Okoye up the middle vs Steve Atwater the biggest and loudest collision I've ever seen and cam remember like it was yesterday

[@60BloodyChamp60]

Good video of some forgotten plays. I nominate Greg Lloyd on Brett Favre. That was the one where Favre barfed blood. They called timeout and the next play he threw the touchdown. He barfed blood and wouldn’t sit because something like that happened earlier that year and the backup lost the game on 1 of the dumbest plays in history. Now...all of that isn’t even the craziest part. The craziest part is that Lloyd rocked Favre just as bad in their preseason game and they kept him out after that until week 1. Fast forward to week 17 with it all on the line and Favre runs straight at him to try and score. Had he made it over the Goal Line it would have been the GOAT run IMO.

[@Amazingfilms148]

Brady doesn't do shit like that because he is protected

[@deaj8450]

Lloyd was an absolute monster, he tried to take people's souls.

[@LAshades]

Fuck this story

[@capswole81]

@@Amazingfilms148 Go look up a video called “Nate Clements drills Tom Brady” and tell me how protected he was.

[@CorporalGrievous93]

He’s absolutely protected you clown. That was when he was a nobody and he’s RUNNING with the ball lol…

[@jamin4556]

Chuck Cecil was trying to kill em...

[@yungcash8800]

Chuck Cecil is that DUDE 😂

[@AwestaKhalid]

1:00 i love how Lawrence Taylor and his teammates are showing concern for their downed opponent and frantically waving for medical attention. It’s never good when there’s an injury but usually when there is one, it’s a rare chance to for us to be reminded of our compassion for one another.

[@NYGiantsDiEhArD]

Nope

[@jonvia]

Now this is football.

[@oN3xShOtxkilL]

God I miss these days so much

[@rproverb]

this was a fire comp!!! good shit man 🤘🏻

[@williamweiss6128]

A lot of memories those older ones. That Largent retaliation hit is still pretty cool, too.

[@geminiman7791]

NFL was better when dominant defenses could run the show...

[@ninezerotwo1778]

It certainly made the sport more interesting, if nothing else.

[@greer2402]

Defense they have now days is hard to watch. You can still hit a man hard just not with your helmut

[@heirling25]

This why it's hard for me to concede Brady over Joe Montana as the GOAT. The pounding the QB and receivers took during Montana's era was exponentially rougher than today's game- really can't compare the two eras, but one thing is for certain, Brady wouldn't be dominating at 45 years old. He may have made it to 40, but he would have been a shell of himself from 15 plus years of vicious hits.

[@gangweedpilled4977]

Brady won 3 rings in the early 2000s. Football was still extremely physical and violent then

[@heirling25]

@@gangweedpilled4977...and Brady was in his 20s. No doubt about Brady's quarterback skills and greatness, I'm simply saying that it's highly doubtful that he would still be playing at such a high level this late in his career under the 80's/90's rules, which were a lot less intrusive on the defense and more violent than even the 2000's- granted the players today are bigger, faster and stronger, but the guys in the 80's/90's weren't exactly small, nor slow and could hit just as hard...but that's just my opinion and conjecture, reasonable minds could disagree. With that being said, if I had to choose one quarterback to win in the clutch and/or a Superbowl, I'm going with Montana, but certainly Brady wouldn't be a bad choice either. I watched both play, both are flat out ballers.

[@malcolmhamilton8706]

Playing on turf also

[@christopheryanez]

@@gangweedpilled4977 still not fair to the QBs who suffered through some brutal shit in the 90s, 80s, 70s, back when everybody was alright with just a leather cap on the head way back in the day...Tom Brady for sure is the greatest of this generation, but not of all time. Calling Joe Montana the greatest also isn’t really fair to the older QBs before him but I’ll admit Joe still played in an era that was significantly rougher than the 2000s and most definitely the 2010s. The QB position is the hardest one to choose who is the GOAT because personally out of all positions, QBs have been impacted the most when it comes to refined and new rules. I’m glad QBs and other players play a safer game and their chances of ending up on a wheel chair with tubes in their nose and throat are lessened, but it’s a night and day difference over what professional QBs before the 2000s and QBs nowadays go through. Brady entered the NFL at the very end of a brutal era of football, he’s for sure taken some mean hits and had some minor concussions...however he along with every other QB were saved by many flags and rule changes which made the game easier and less risky.

[@jayday1503]

Watching Joe Montana, I completely understand why you'd say that... Gotta them both

[@donniehickman7928]

Bring this football back, it was great

[@bradystafford7654]

Yeah let's shorten people's careers and lives for our entertainment.

[@kdeb92968]

⁠@@bradystafford7654 shut up they get paid millions most of the players from back in the day turned out fine it’s a man’s game for a reason!

[@counterfeitclone]

As entertaining as it was, cte and spinal damage isn't worth it. Cte damaged the brain as you know which will change a persons personality. That becomes more hostile and erratic. Can cause violence on others or themselves, resulting in bodily harm or d3@th Or the other side of cte where your cabbaged. The other reasons to why the rules were changed and not just for player safety is those Benjamin's. You pay all that money for a guy only for him to get decapited while playing. Gotta look after your stock and get as much out of the players as possible. That's why teams now hate chancing on running backs because their career life isn't that long due to all the punishment the body guys through.

[@donniehickman7928]

@@bradystafford7654 they chose it not me

[@kdeb92968]

@@bradystafford7654 oh please they get paid millions lol

[@Rippinlips513]

The Sean Taylor hit on the punter was nasty AF!!!

[@chiefkeef74]

RIP Sean Taylor, he was an absolute beast

[@harlequin2280]

"Here is something you can't understand, how I could just kill a man..."

[@JohnRoberts-wk6rf]

Thank you so much for putting this on You Tube. The guys that played when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s would destroy today's softies.

[@Caml3]

And players back then were smaller, slower, and weaker than players today. I'd like to see how those physics work out.

[@gabehills2489]

The best pro team from the 70's couldn't beat the top college team today.

[@scottjones9973]

I think the guys today are bigger and more athletic. It's sorta like old cars. They seem bigger and tougher, but they'd get beat by a Chevy Bolt in a drag race, and destroyed by a Honda Civic in a crash.

[@vanjones1749]

I agree, I see these guys taking a lot of these younger bigger, athletes heart due to they aren’t even use to tough, coaching, mental mentality, and overall physicality of the traditional game. QBs use to running around not being hit, and WR run all over the field with no consequences. People forget the rules are overly skewed for the offense in today’s game.

[@williamwood1421]

Some of these hits are so hard people are still watching them 50 years later!

[@leethecomedian]

Dude the legend of that man LT and that leg. Before the internet it was like you were in awe of people that had seen it. Some could talk about it,others not so much. Video was sought after by a lot of football fans man. It was legendary

[@dman5527x]

That first one was brutal, i swear you can see the brain go into primal survival reboot mode live

[@ojsimpin]

Football in it's purest form

[@JonJonGTA]

@Z A exactly how it should be played

[@slimetoisland8769]

@Z A not dangerous its football and they are grown men if you dont wanna take hits dont play the sport tired of you and all them players complain acting like females

[@DanielNHofficial]

That’s brutal but I can’t stop watching!

[@foolyunfiltered]

Old NFL Highlights are the perfect description of “beautiful chaos”

[@badsaturnz23]

If only i was alive to see the legendary Jack Tatum play. Rest in Peace, Assassin 🏴‍☠️

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Wasn't a dirty player either just was a hard hitting man. Well he redefined hard hitting

[@emperorchad4492]

@@Duck_Dodgers He was a little dirty lol

[@JA_WILL]

@@emperorchad4492 - George Atkinson was the dirty one because he did not have Tatum's talent.

[@chiefkeef74]

Those old school Raiders were DIRDAY

[@userknonothing]

Joe's injury wouldve triggered people in the 1880s

[@RyanLBrown9396]

Nowadays if you touch the curly haired golden boy in Kansas City with your pinky finger that’s a two game suspension

[@vanjones1749]

Agreed, him and all the other QBs and WRs too smh. That’s why I have more respect from records made back in the day 70s 80s and early 90s doe to tye rules allowed for even play and physical play from defense and offense

[@robertv6628]

Bring this football back, also hockey, and basketball all of entertainment and sports needs the rawness back

[@egotgame38]

It’s entertaining but most of these guys probably can’t hold complete sentences anymore my guy.

[@Max_m]

@@egotgame38So? Still bring it back, everyone now knows the risk. Play and make money, fame, etc. and possibly injury or don’t. That should be the deal

[@jeffgordonfan2462]

​@@Max_mJust because you know the risk doesn't mean you play like a wild baboon with no caution to the wind of your own mental & physical well-being. There's a reason why some of these hits in the past are left in the past & condemned in today's game

[@bakkila99]

Yeah, while we are at it, let’s abolish all work place safety laws and make children work dangerous jobs again too!

[@vanjones1749]

Agreed I think this is what’s missing the essence that made them great in the first place. Have the players say yes or no on changes but if they say yes being back the old days of play

[@dice6953]

When football was football

[@matts5247]

Our “reverse angle camera” as if that was cutting edge technology 😂

[@teti_99]

HELL YEAH!!! I miss this football

[@blakewarren5613]

Chuck Cecil hits actually looked clean

[@fortealltheway]

Violence makes every sport better.

[@albertevans4002]

Too soft now a days nba 2

[@aaronyeomans5974]

@@albertevans4002 You have never played football in your life lmao, you can't judge them for being soft from your couch. Every one of these hits woulda put you in the ER. Lmao.

[@Terror832]

There’s a lot of truth to it I loved watching wrestling in the late 90s/early 00s aka the “attitude era”. Bloody matches, trash talking, over the top stunts, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Fast forward 15-20 years later and it’s “PGed” beyond belief.

[@vanjones1749]

Agreed. Tye older rules allowed for a more equal playing field for defense and offense, and records back then were really records due to rules not being skewed for the offense.

[@TheBlueCollarBaller]

Aaaahhhh yes……. The NFL. I remember that. It’s kind of like this football league we have today, just with men.

[@Sick_Boy_Rick74]

Watching some of these bring back some good memories!!! My Broncos finally winning a Super Bowl against the Packers!!!! I was watching that MNF when LT ended Joe Thiesman’s career…

[@mountainryder3056]

As amazing as it might appear- this is how I was taught to tackle in 8th grade back in 1963. I really enjoyed being a linebacker.

[@user-wm2hv2mh9b]

What's amazing about it ?....That's how you're supposed to tackle...You didn't do anything wrong it's not our fault a big chunk of the country have gone democrat woke wimp !

[@uberboomer8670]

As a safety, you decapitate someone trying to run that post and either they're out of the game or they have "alligator arms" the rest of the game. Huge advantage in your team's favor. Now we're scared to give these players boo-boos

[@thecensoredmuscle563]

That's how I was taught to tackle in the 2000s even. It was not until early on in the 2010s when softness got into the nfl. Which made it easier to script really.

[@GeoAce777]

Neal Anderson always looked like he was running on an ice rink😅

[@johnmoran4469]

Dave Patton God rest his soul, made a beautiful catch one Sunday, and was knocked clean out for doing it. It was the best catch I've ever seen live.

[@sgcohlo7550]

@2:40 #46 got two hit sticks. He a real head hunter

[@askilledkilla]

Lmaooo bruh wanted all the smoke

[@sayitoutloudchp]

*even the clean hits were harder back then!*

[@showofhands8214]

Ol' Chuck Cecil was all fired up 🤣

[@n.a.mcintosh4697]

Ahhhh I can smell the cigars!!! The crazy play at 3:00, I noticed that #46 Plank? lays out the BIG first hit but also finishes the play with another on a linesman, laying him down too! what a BMF!

[@Miked1332]

That part ( 1:54 )where the announcers come back from commercial during Joe Theismann's leg break and they say, "we will not speculate to the extent of his injury until we have definitive word on what happened." That is refreshing to hear. I wish we still did that because we speculate and then by the time the actual definitive word gets out, it's too late. Rumors mean more than facts nowadays.

[@Boxscot49]

Well i mean when you see a dudes leg snap in half i think its safe to assume whatever happened is very bad. And I dont even get what youre on about rumors meaning more than facts cause whenever an injury happens literally the first thing everyone waits for is what the teams official statement on the injury is. Speculation isnt some sort of new age thing, people are always gonna do that.

[@jacobsukovaty520]

This is how football should be played

[@philn5703]

Chuck Cecil was a beast. Loved watching him as a kid in Green Bay.

[@craighouse1279]

I miss football.

[@JR-he6fn]

I remember playing NFL BLITZ and it’s just a collection of these hits. What a difference

[@jerrylee8540]

when football was football

[@goatitisful]

Fascinating video

[@DougalSAFC]

Had never heard of Chuck Cecil before this video! Solid hits there!!

[@Identity_Crisis_Clips]

“We will not speculate on the injury to Joe Theisman…” You just saw his calf snap in half 😂

[@virtualteen127]

Man I wish they hit like this!

[@ballhawk387]

The sheer *joy* in the reaction to Cecil's hit (3:21-3:50) cracked me up.

[@jcpenny3606]

Give the guy a break. He's small, it meant a lot to him to impress the big boys. The running back still got 3 yards, and Cecil acted like he sacked the QB for a lost of 15.

[@yungcash8800]

Straight Legendary STUFF

[@ballhawk387]

Not to imply I didn't appreciate the hit. (grinning slyly)

[@marcusanderson933]

Chuck Cecil was vicious and the league wouldn't let him play in today's game! I miss the old time football!

[@courylanders4142]

9:04 the greatest sound bite ever.

[@popdrip7448]

😂😂

[@MtelH]

This just adds validity to the "eras" argument. When you can dang near paralyze a guy after a nasty hit, your stats hold much more weight than those of our modern era.

[@gregsey8239]

That how football should be played

[@jesselancaster7]

When I was growing up the middle of the field was a dangerous place!!

[@DRodMuzicman]

I love this 😂

[@billyc3781]

When Football was Football

[@GUYSnGAMES]

A better era. NFL today isn't even a sports league. It's called an "Entertainment Company" it's no longer about the game anymore. It's about money. This new NFL is SOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFTT!!

[@dang75790]

Yup. Nfl in bed with vegas

[@carddealer34]

Man....I love football. Can't wait for the new season to start!

[@sportsgamer2342]

It’s a soft kids game now, nothing like this

[@fireworksfanatics2777]

Still good football, but not the same

[@davidca96]

Ill never forget Taylors reaction, he was geniunely upset he wasnt trying to break his leg and was upset with himself that he had even though it wasnt intentional.

[@artistamisto]

0:41 - Baker (Redskins) pancakes McDonald (Eagles) 1959 5:00 - Hardy Brown (49ers) hard knocks Ameche (Colts) 1955 8:01 - Night Train (Lions) derails Kilmer (49ers) 1961

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

I'd add George Wilson's great block from the 1940 championship game, where he wiped out two guys at once. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3bdn6Vvo9-SjdE

[@JA_WILL]

Night-Train Lane, Stan 'The Lariat" Hansen close-line was legal when he played Just like the Roy Williams Horse Collar or the Deacon Jones Head Slap. All legislated out over time. GOD is good that here has been only one NFL fatality in a game.

[@sickjoeyb1503]

Back when football was actually football

[@billyd7882]

That 70’s Raider secondary was the original Legion of Boom. Headhunters.

[@newjack900]

Remember when nearly all of the plays / highlites shown on Defense for the sizzle reel was almost always huge hits? The NFL was selling it for years, then wondered why it was so hard for the athletes to adjust. Great opening btw.. Steve Atwater and many other Safeties had that mentality that they would ruin their own careers, the careers of teammates, etc just to make a huge hit. They were ready to burn it all down in the name of a highlight hit.

[@rafaelsale6364]

Back when football was a real game.

[@BarbarianKing2964]

All these players can’t remember their kids’ names😂

[@fkitcrutch6764]

All of these hits would be penalties now sadly

[@fkitcrutch6764]

@Michael Orme okay most of them

[@flyingdics1]

@@fkitcrutch6764 Not really. Looking through, a lot of them are big hits on runners, which are still legal now. Watch highlights from any NFL weekend and you'll see the same. What you won't see in these old highlights are impressive passes, runs, or catches. Sure the game was more physical, but the level of skill and athleticism was far, far lower.

[@wesleyausborn4256]

@@flyingdics1 impressive passes? Great catches? Did you see the catch Sammy White made against the Raiders? There is not a receiver in the league right now who would have even made that attempt with the same rules. A primary technique was when a receiver had better position and the ball was not well thrown (thrown where receiver can catch in traffic low to the turf and get down without taking a solid hit) was to try and jar it loose with a hard hit. The choice a defender has now is to play patty cake hand fight in a race to the football. All you really need to see is the difference in velocity prior to the Joe Montana rules of the early 80s to see they had to throw into much smaller windows over the middle and underneath because the defense could disrupt routes up to 15 yards until the ball was in the air the that turned into 5 yards. Now the kinds of contact allowed in coverage will draw a defensive holding call. Re-routing a receiver was an action not an influence. How do folks even think that the game has improved? Now, most players are playing professionally 1 to 2 seasons sooner and while in college could only practice or film study with a coach present no more than 20 hours per week. There is very little to none in senior AND 5th year senior leadership because the most talented are getting contracts after 3 years after high school. Herschel Walker in the early-mid 1980s took it to U.S. Supreme Court when he went to the N.J. team of the USFL opened by that supposed racist Donald Trump. What race of people playing football did that benefit the most? Right now, There is no Barry Sanders, Randy Moss, Lawrence Taylor, Ray Lewis, Darrell Green, Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson, derrick Thomas, Eric Dickerson, Walter Payton, Deacon Jones, Reggie White caliber players out there. Before free agency and several years latersalary caps, team were made through the draft and were primarily the same team year after year changing only via direct trades which were far less often than at end of player contract. There are about 20 to 25% of quarterbacks today that could start for most teams in the mid 70s until the early 90s. It's not the players who come to the league younger and with not nearly as extensive training from college coaching which is less experience overall and lacking continuity and supervision as well as less time learning and practicing in the 3 years of college football. To make up less prepared to CONCEPTUALLY understand football and now that the term 'reading' a defense is used to describe the QB going through the primary and secondary looks before taking off running or just get outside the OT to throw ball away. No need to find a covered receiver yo just get it neat when throwing away. That's why the game has turned into a glorified +4 edition with addition to the 7 on 7 camps. Ball placement now is only dependent upon keeping out of reach of defenders without concern of how vulnerable a WR will be if needs to leap or reach to make a catch. There is less to no obstruction to the route running. Lineman can extend arms and use hands more when blocking especially pass blocking. QBs are not subject to being hit after every single pass. The way an og QB would know result of pass attempt was from crowd noise specifics changing based in home or visiting. Offenses have exchanged the fullback for a WR in the slot and the TE are more H-back to slot and really are not used to pass block ever and are rarely ever asked to block down on DL. THAT IS ONE WAY A RULE CHANGE DID HELP DEFENSE and that was making chop blocks and cut blocks illegal because that destroyed DL knees. Hence, run blocking got much tougher especially when a mismatch was discovered and penetration by a single DL caused havoc, they often tried to slow him down or remove cutting at the knees. More games that are running more plays with more scoring and total yards gained does not make the players more skilled, especially at QB and WR because they are not subject to taking the same risk and reward choices during a play.

[@flyingdics1]

@@wesleyausborn4256 Those kinds of catches get made all the time in the NFL today, and defenders are much faster and stronger than they were then. As to the rest of your meandering rant, I get that no one ever went broke saying that football (or really anything else) used be great and is now bad/soft/whatever, but it's almost never true. You can dress it up with a bunch of cherry-picked trends or half-understood points, but you're still just pandering to old farts who want to be told that they're better than young people. Nostalgia's a hell of a drug.

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

sadly?

[@rconlan]

all clean hits

[@TheMailmanOfSteel]

That Sean Taylor hit on the punter at the Pro Bowl was shades of Johnny Bench, lmao.

[@nr63kish]

This is how the game should still be played.

[@troynov1965]

3:51 Brutal !!