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I'm John Eisenberg, sports writer and football historian.
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I'm here today to answer your questions from the internet.
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This is Football Support.
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Shaney asks, "What's the origin of American football being named football?"
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First of all, it's not named after European soccer, English soccer, which is known as football.
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Actually, the origin of the name goes back way before that.
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You go to the 1600s, 1500s, sports were pretty much divided up.
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There were sports that were played on horseback and there were sports that were played on foot.
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All those sports that were played on foot were known as foot sports, and so that evolved into football.
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And so that was yet another thing early in the history of the sport here, it just stuck.
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Dan Bolio asks, "Why are we still calling the Cowboys America's team?"
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Really, this is a fair question.
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The Dallas Cowboys have a great history.
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They've won Super Bowls, they've had tons of playoff teams, a great tradition, but the last time they won the Super Bowl was in the early 1990s.
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And so we're going back a long way and they haven't won many playoff games since then.
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They still have probably more fans than any other team.
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They get tremendous television ratings, but I don't know that they're America's team anymore.
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New Reditor says, "Today I learned one of the four kickers who have kicked 63-yard field goals in NFL history was Tom Dempsey for the Saints.
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He had no toes on his kicking foot."
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Yes, he'd been born with no toes on his right foot.
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He'd been born with no fingers on one hand.
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He was a great athlete and he made it to the NFL, and he kicked with a square-toed shoe.
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No other kicker had come close to making a field goal from 63 yards and it won a game.
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It shocked everyone.
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And what was interesting was in the immediate aftermath of that, in the off-season, the league outlawed the square-toed shoe that he had used because they felt it was almost like a club kicking the ball and was an unfair advantage.
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The great thing for Dempsey was he continued to kick in the NFL for a number of years.
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The changing of the shoe did not limit his ability to have a football career.
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Barry Shuck asks, "What is the origin of the term touchdown?"
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This goes back to the beginning of football in this country.
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One of the main influences was rugby, and in rugby, the goal is to move the ball over a goal line and you score the point when the offensive player touches the ball down on the ground in the end zone.
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That's called a try in rugby, but the "you touch down" is what the player is trying to do.
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And so football borrowed a lot from rugby in its early years, and so it was the same thing.
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They felt like, "Well, we're going to get the ball over the goal line and we're going to score the points."
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H. Bolaski asks, "I hate the new kickoff rule in the NFL.
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Why do they feel they must make new rules?"
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I'm not a huge fan of the new kickoff rule either, but I do know why they did it.
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They're trying to cut down on the velocity of the collisions and keep the players safer.
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So what they did was they moved the coverage teams forward about 40 yards, well into enemy territory.
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The kicker is alone back on his 40 kicking the ball off.
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The coverage team can't begin to run until the ball is caught and the returner begins to return the kick.
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So the velocity of the collisions is cut way down.
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The New Mule asks, "By the way, are NFL footballs still made of pigskin?"
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NFL footballs are not made of pigskin and they've never been made of pigskin.
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The exterior has always been leather.
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The way that the nickname pigskin came about was in the early days of the NFL, the 1920s, the 1930s, to inflate the balls they used pig's bladder, and so the nickname grew from pig's bladder to pig's skin.
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It never was the skin, it was always leather.
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However, the fact that there was pig entrails in the ball and it was known as pigskin, and still sometimes you hear people call it pigskin.
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S. ISM asks, "What have been the most impactful rule changes in NFL history?"
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Unlimited substitutions.
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That rule came into existence in 1950.
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Before that, there were great limits on when players could come off the field.
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As a result, you had guys playing both ways.
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If you were the quarterback, you were also a defensive back.
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If you were an offensive lineman, you were also a defensive lineman.
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When the NFL went to unlimited substitutions in 1950, it completely changed the nature of the game.
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It brought in specialization, you could just be a defensive back or you could be a tight end.
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And so what that really created was separate units as well, offense and defense.
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Kutso Jr. asked, "Who invented football?"
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Football was not invented by one person.
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The field sport came over from England around 1850, 1860.
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The first official game was a college game between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869.
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But it bore no resemblance to the sport that you see today.
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It was really a mixture of rugby and soccer.
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It became the sport that we know at much more so about 10 or 12 years later.
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Walter Camp, who was a medical student at Yale, helped invent the rules of football.
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It wasn't a free-flowing game anymore.
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It was one team had the ball or the other team had the ball.
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Now you could run with the ball or throw the ball.
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So around 1880, it became a semblance of the sport that we know today.
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Okay Health asks, "Which team had the worst defense in NFL history?"
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Now, I think there's a lot of fans that could raise their hand and have a suggestion on that, but I think the winner is the Detroit Lions of 2008.
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That year, the Lions played 16 games, they lost all 16, and they gave up almost 33 points a game.
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No team in the history of the NFL has allowed more than 33 points per game on average.
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The Lions came very close that year, they have to win.
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Heidelberg says, "Change my view, Patrick Mahomes is visibly and obviously better at the quarterback position than Tom Brady was."
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You can't knock either one of these players.
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Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback of the current generation in the NFL, the most successful, a fantastic player.
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He's already won three Super Bowls, he's on his way to being in the conversation.
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However, Tom Brady right now owns that conversation, and I would suggest looking at the statistics.
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It's really pretty simple.
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He won seven Super Bowls.
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He is far and away the career leader in NFL history in touchdown passes, completions, passing yardage.
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No one else is close.
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Too Lazy to Link asks, "Before the forward pass was invented, what the hell did the quarterback do?"
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What needs to be understood is that in the early days of football, the quarterback did not touch the ball on every play.
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Offenses ran through the tailback, was the most important position on the offensive field.
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The quarterback was so named because he was a quarter of the way back to the tailback.
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Same with the halfback, half the way back to the tailback, and the fullback was lined up next to the tailback.
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The quarterback was more of a blocker.
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A Reddit user asks, "What made Jerry Rice the GOAT receiver?"
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Jerry Rice, receiver for the San Francisco 49ers, is easily the greatest receiver in the history of pro football.
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He played for 20 years.
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He set, I believe, 36 records, many of which still stand.
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He's the all-time leader in catches, in receiving yardage, in receiving touchdowns, nearly 200, I believe.
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So the GOAT of receivers, that's an easy one.
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Various Beach 7840 asks, "What is the greatest single game performance in NFL history?"
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In more recent football, I would go with Tom Brady's performance, Super Bowl 51, against the Atlanta Falcons, where they trailed 28 to 3 and came back to win the game 34 to 28 in overtime.
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That entire comeback rested on Tom Brady's arm.
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He threw and threw and threw and he almost never missed a pass and engineered the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, a peerless performance.
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Fake White Knight asks, "Why is Joe Namath in the Hall of Fame?"
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Joe Namath is in the Hall of Fame because he was the quarterback of the New York Jets when they engineered probably the greatest upset in pro football history, Super Bowl 3.
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They were heavy underdogs.
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They were the champions of the AFL, the New York Jets, and Namath predicted they would win the game and they did win the game.
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They defeated the champions of the NFL, the Baltimore Colts.
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The Colts were favored by 17 points.
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The whole sports world thought they would win.
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If you look at his statistics, his accomplishments other than that, he really doesn't belong.
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He had a losing record as a starting quarterback.
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He barely completed 50% of his passes.
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In today's football, if you complete barely 50% of your passes, you don't have a job.
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He threw more interceptions than touchdowns over his career.
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However, his one great moment was just about the greatest moment.
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Stout Sabber asks, "In the old days, why the hell was the goalpost in the middle of the end zone?"
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The goalpost was never in the middle of the end zone, it was on the goal line.
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That's where it was for a number of years right when pro football started.
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And the reason it was there, there wasn't nearly as much scoring in the early days of pro football.
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It wouldn't be unusual to see the final score of a game be 6 to 2 or 9 to 3.
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So they were trying to encourage scoring and they were trying to encourage field goals, so they had the goalpost right on the goal line.
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What happened was teams started relying too much on field goals and kicking too many field goals, so that's when they moved the goalpost to the back of the end zone, making it harder to kick field goals, trying to encourage touchdowns.
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It's also too dangerous to have the goalpost right on the goal line.
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You've got today's players, bigger, stronger, faster, and they're crisscrossing the field at a great velocity.
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If they ran into the goalpost that's situated there, you'd have serious injuries.
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A Travs Michael asks, "So the undefeated Dolphins are the best football team of all time?"
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A very good question and one that will always start an argument.
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The Miami Dolphins in 1972 played 14 regular season games, three playoff games, won them all.
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They are the only team in NFL history to go through an entire season without losing a game, and so by definition, they're the greatest team of all time.
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Of course, football is relative.
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It's a lot different today than it was back then.
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Different teams can claim that they're better, even if they might have lost a game, one game along the way.
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The Chicago Bears of 1985 had probably the most fierce defense in the history of the NFL.
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They lost one game and pretty much slaughtered everybody else.
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The dynasty teams in the NFL, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the San Francisco 49ers, the Dallas Cowboys, they all had fantastic teams at times over the years, they all won multiple Super Bowls.
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I'm sure if you said, "Would you like to have them play the Miami Dolphins of 1972?"
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They would take that on in a heartbeat.
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But the Miami Dolphins didn't lose a game that year, they get to brag at.
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Content Lawyer asks, "How has technology changed the way football is played in the NFL?"
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The fact that there's so much no more video in our world now certainly has changed pro football as it has everything else.
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Anytime you're watching a game, you see players on the sidelines as soon as they come off the field, the quarterback's often times looking at a tablet, going over what they did.
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You have coaches, defensive coordinators, offensive coordinators who would rather be in the press box than down on the field because they have access to much more video.
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I would argue that technology hasn't changed pro football as much as it has other aspects of our world.
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GPS technology, for instance, could easily be used to determine whether a team has gained 10 yards in four downs and gets a first down.
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When they bring those chains out for a measurement, it is still an imperfect science.
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The reason why we're not seeing GPS technology in football has never been really explained.
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The NFL has a great thing going, the simpler the better in some respects, and so I think at this point they want to just continue with the way it was.
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J. McComber 75 asks, "Wait, when did the NFL start allowing quarterbacks to throw while running?"
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Quarterbacks have always been able to throw while running.
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There was never a limit on a quarterback's ability to run and throw.
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There were, however, many limits on passing.
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The rules that constricted passing in the early days of the NFL sound amazing today.
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If the passer threw the ball and it was incomplete, that was a 15-yard penalty.
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If the passer lines up and throws the ball into the end zone trying to throw a touchdown and the ball falls incomplete, the other team gained possession of the ball.
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So there were tons of rules that restricted passing in the early days of pro football, and it all changed in 1933.
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The owners of the teams realized the sport they felt was pretty boring.
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It was a lot of just plunging into the middle of the line, not nearly enough passing.
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They opened it wide and the change was instantaneous.
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S. Olson asks, "Will chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) ultimately kill the NFL, or is there simply too much money in football?"
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This is a great and serious question that is on a lot of minds in the NFL.
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The study of concussions and the impact of playing football on the players has been an ongoing story for the last 15 or 20 years.
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There's a lot of concern in the NFL about whether playing the sport is too dangerous for you.
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A lot of the doctors and a lot of the researchers will say that their research points to the fact that yes, it is dangerous to play this game.
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So this is an ongoing situation that the NFL for sure is worried about.
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That's why you see so much thrown into improving helmet technology and trying to make the sport safer for the players.
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I don't think it will kill the NFL.
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The NFL is so popular.
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Pork Spor 69 asks, "What's the biggest single-season turnaround in NFL history?"
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There have been a lot of losing teams that have gone on to have winning teams immediately.
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I don't think you can come close to what the St. Louis Rams did in the late '90s.
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In 1998, they played 16 games, they won four, came in last in their division.
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The beginning of the next year, they were listed as a 200 to 1 shot to win the Super Bowl.
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But they had a new quarterback, Kurt Warner, and suddenly their offense exploded and they went all the way to the Super Bowl and they won the Super Bowl.
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MC Rib 79 asks, "What was the last year leather helmets were used in the NFL?"
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The way to start answering that question is to understand that into the 1940s there were players playing with no helmets.
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It was not mandatory that you had to wear a helmet.
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In 1942, a player named Dick Plasman for the Chicago Bears was the last NFL player to play with no helmet.
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The next year, the NFL made helmets mandatory, and those were leather helmets, thin little scraps of leather.
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Didn't give you a whole lot of assistance as far as safety is concerned.
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And so in that decade, the technology began to advance and helmet makers rolled out the plastic helmet.
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By 1950, NFL players were using plastic helmets.
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I Guarantee It asks, "Who is Vince Lombardi and why does he have a trophy named after him?"
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Vince Lombardi was one of the greatest coaches in the history of the NFL.
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He was coaching the Green Bay Packers when the Super Bowl era began.
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He came to Green Bay in 1959.
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They were the worst team in the NFL.
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They didn't win a game the year before, tied one.
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Lombardi took the same players that had been on that winless team, they had a winning record in his first season in 1959.
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And then starting in 1960, they dominated the NFL for the next six or seven years.
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They won five championships out of seven years.
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They won the first two Super Bowls.
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And so Vince Lombardi, by winning those first two Super Bowls, really set the standard for excellence in pro football.
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Yo Cubo asks, "What NFL records do you think will never be broken?"
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A couple come to mind.
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George Blanda, a quarterback and kicker who played in the '50s, the '60s, and the '70s, played 26 seasons of professional football.
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I don't think we're ever going to see anyone play 26 seasons of NFL football.
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Brett Favre, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, great Hall of Fame quarterback, stayed healthy amazingly and started 297 straight games at quarterback.
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That is an Ironman record that in football is almost impossible.
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There's so many injuries.
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Even with rules that have made quarterbacks not getting hit as hard as they used to, they still get hit hard.
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297 straight starts, I don't think we're ever going to see anyone come close to that.
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Jay Garanti asks, "What is the greatest football comeback of all time?"
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Now, it depends on what you're talking about.
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Just a couple of years ago, the Minnesota Vikings were playing the Indianapolis Colts.
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The Colts were ahead 33 to nothing.
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The Vikings came back and won that game.
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That is the greatest comeback in pro football history in terms of points.
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That was a regular season game.
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In a playoff game in 1992, the Houston Oilers were ahead of the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo by 32 points.
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The Bills mounted a rally in front of their home fans and came back and won that game.
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The biggest comeback in the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots were playing the Atlanta Falcons.
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The Falcons were ahead 28 to 3, so a 25-point lead.
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The Patriots came back and won that game.
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Those are definitely your three comebacks that stand out far and away from anything else in the history of pro football.
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Okay, that's all the questions.
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I hope you learned something.
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Until next time.