Let’s Remember Some Guys: 1990 Football Guys
Football in 2018 is sleek. It is about scoring and speed. The players do not want to be encumbered by extraneous protective equipment. Shoulder pads have gotten smaller and smaller, and the frontier is being pushed every day. Michael Bennett wears kicker shoulder pads. It was not always this way. Football players in the 1980s and 1990s wore huge shoulder pads. Talking to The New York Times before the Super Bowl in 2014, Champ Bailey noted that his life in football nicely coincided with the shrinking of pads: “It started out, in Little League and stuff, the bigger the better. High school, the...
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