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DemocratSinceBirth

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Thu Jan-20-05 06:55 AM
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6. We Have To Use Intuition And Inference And Imagination

to theorize how the players of the past would do today...

Heck, I think a middling NFL team today could beat Lombardi's Packers just because of the size and speed difference...

I remember watching a special on Wide World Of Sports in the 70's and Muhammad Ali was discussing how he would have done against the great fighters of the past... He laughed at theoretical match ups with Jack Jackson, Jack Dempsey, and Joe Louis pointing out those guys only weighed 190 pounds and he fought at weights of 208 to 225 pounds*...

Same thing with football... A fair comparison would control for today's training and diet... With that control the Patriots are a middle of the pack Superbowl team..

Also, free agency does have it's advantages... Don't have a great running back .... Go into the free agency market and get Corey Dillon....

*Ali respected those guys as individuals and atheletes especially Jack Johnson...

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