Have seen it before, but its such a classic it merits seeing again.


Old Time Football. The way the game used to be played. A clip from the Johnny Carson Show.

http://offtheedgehumor.blogspo...novan-on-johnny.html

They weren't so keen on player safety back then.

I have a friend from college that played rugby back in the U.K.in the late 60's.
now THAT game took real cajones.

Take a look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Owvp3YwdOM

Its always important to "win the collisions"

Enjoy

I suspect the toughest and meanest pro football player who ever played also played for the Baltimore Colts(and the New York Giants, and the Detroit Lions, and the Washington Redskins...). He was actually traded away by the Colts (and then by several other teams) because he was TOO rough. Look him up if you wanna see mean...Joe Don Looney.

His name was a perfect fit. He had the habit of intentionally injuring opposing players, got kicked out of some games for it, and cost his teams a lot of yardage by penalties for his vicious play.

He was a native of Texas, a sometimes star for the Oklahoma Sooners, and a veteran of Vietnam who reportedly loved it there. Was also a big time gun aficionado...particularly unlicensed Class III subguns.

(Not to mention an elephant trainer in India, a houseboat resident in Hong Kong harbor for hreee years, an LOT of oter stuff.)

Here's one of many interesting reads which can be found just by googling his name...

http://www.dmagazine.com/publi...st-of-joe-don-looney

I've heard rugby described as a game played by English gentlemen with odd shaped balls.

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
I suspect the toughest and meanest pro football player who ever played also played for the Baltimore Colts(and the New York Giants, and the Detroit Lions, and the Washington Redskins...). He was actually traded away by the Colts (and then by several other teams) because he was TOO rough. Look him up if you wanna see mean...Joe Don Looney.

His name was a perfect fit. He had the habit of intentionally injuring opposing players, got kicked out of some games for it, and cost his teams a lot of yardage by penalties for his vicious play.

He was a native of Texas, a sometimes star for the Oklahoma Sooners, and a veteran of Vietnam who reportedly loved it there. Was also a big time gun aficionado...particularly unlicensed Class III subguns.

(Not to mention an elephant trainer in India, a houseboat resident in Hong Kong harbor for hreee years, an LOT of oter stuff.)

Here's one of many interesting reads which can be found just by googling his name...

http://www.dmagazine.com/publi...st-of-joe-don-looney

Ndamukong Suh would be the nastiest if he could play under 6o's rules and not the sissy boy rules of the NFL today! His headslap would knock you out!

Rugby is a hooligan's game played by Gentlemen
Football (soccer) is a gentleman's game played by hooligans

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Originally posted by buckeyeshooter:
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Ndamukong Suh would be the nastiest if he could play under 6o's rules and not the sissy boy rules of the NFL today! His headslap would knock you out!

On several occasions, Joe Don did knock folks out of consciousness and out of games with head slaps..folks wearing helmets with masks...once he hit an opposing player so hard he broke his own forearm...cleanly broke both bones of it so that his hand and the front half of the forearm were dangling there useless...but he still played 6 more plays before the coach realized what had happened and pulled him. And he was back playing again two weeks later. They had to put a steel plate in his forearm, plus a full forearm cast on the forearm. Joe Don used it in his return games just like a person would use a sledgehammer...raising it as high as he could and nailing opponents on the collarbone with it, full force.

Although he was originally a running back, he actually played linebacker on the odd occasion.

As a running back the coach once told him...follow your lead blocker and he'll open a hole for you...and Joe Don replied "Real football players open their own holes"...and he often did just that.

Conrad Dobler, definitely a candidate for dirtiest player.

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Originally posted by The Dane:

Hey Dane: how hard a game can it be when five year olds play it?

Just sayin'...