On 18 Aug 2004 06:40:55 -0700, (Rick Durden)
wrote:

Jeez, it used to be that there would be three or four broken
bones per game, with a couple of fatalities each season. Now that the
game is played by limp wrists, wearing all sorts of pads, in warm
weather, the only fatalities are generally from heat stroke and I'd be
surprised if there are a dozen broken bones in all the NFL games in a
season.

Football is still played like this, it's just called Rugby.

Corky Scott