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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1036169" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>Aw, that's a sad anecdote. I had not heard that; thanks for sharing it. Poor bastard.</p><p></p><p>But yeah, you're right - that was the era of the NFL when it was common for defensive linemen to smack the offensive lineman as hard as they could on the side of the helmet as they engaged. Think of how many times this poor guy literally got punched in the side of the head (by men much larger than he was) before he was even out of his stance. And he still kept them out of the backfield.</p><p></p><p>Those were some tough men back then, damned tough men. I know we have a lot of hard men in the NFL now, too, but it's difficult for me to believe they're on the same level as those guys who were born during the Depression and WWII. I really think people were just tougher then.</p><p></p><p>I sometimes think that if guys like Ringo, Gregg, and Kramer (a man who played NFL football for years with a 7-inch long splinter of wood embedded in his freakin' groin) were transported into this era and had the physical tools even average players have today, they'd look like something out of a Marvel superhero movie.</p><p></p><p>Here's Kramer, looking at the wood fragments removed from his abdomen in 1965 - his 8th year I think in the NFL. The man played every single snap with that lumber buried in his abdomilnal muscles, and just kept going. The surgeons said those pieces of wood had just been migrating all over his lower body for years, hurting in various places all the time until they finally located them.</p><p></p><p>His locker room nickname was "Zipper" or "Zip", because of all his surgical scars. These were a very special breed of men. How many NFL linemen can you name who would or could put themselves through that today?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]20492[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1036169, member: 18006"] Aw, that's a sad anecdote. I had not heard that; thanks for sharing it. Poor bastard. But yeah, you're right - that was the era of the NFL when it was common for defensive linemen to smack the offensive lineman as hard as they could on the side of the helmet as they engaged. Think of how many times this poor guy literally got punched in the side of the head (by men much larger than he was) before he was even out of his stance. And he still kept them out of the backfield. Those were some tough men back then, damned tough men. I know we have a lot of hard men in the NFL now, too, but it's difficult for me to believe they're on the same level as those guys who were born during the Depression and WWII. I really think people were just tougher then. I sometimes think that if guys like Ringo, Gregg, and Kramer (a man who played NFL football for years with a 7-inch long splinter of wood embedded in his freakin' groin) were transported into this era and had the physical tools even average players have today, they'd look like something out of a Marvel superhero movie. Here's Kramer, looking at the wood fragments removed from his abdomen in 1965 - his 8th year I think in the NFL. The man played every single snap with that lumber buried in his abdomilnal muscles, and just kept going. The surgeons said those pieces of wood had just been migrating all over his lower body for years, hurting in various places all the time until they finally located them. His locker room nickname was "Zipper" or "Zip", because of all his surgical scars. These were a very special breed of men. How many NFL linemen can you name who would or could put themselves through that today? [ATTACH type="full" alt="1718944821896.png"]20492[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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