Quote Originally Posted by red View Post

and i agree fritz, it was a totally different game back then
... and the game then was totally different than it was in the '60s. It has gotten continually more detailed, technical, athletic and skilled... and less physical and violent.

Funny how some of you are now getting to the point a few of us were at when we all "met" 20 years ago or so. You've seen first hand how the game evolves and changes as rules change and teams adapt. Schemes come and go, and then are "new" again thirty years later.