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re: Could an nfl team from the 70's
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:01 pm to Lsu2B
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:01 pm to Lsu2B
I remember in the 70s college seniors played the NFL champions every year in front of full stadiums and it was a special game to my grandfather. The college team won many games before the NFL got their act together but now college is better. Also the NFL team played together so it had more cohesion. Here is a video that covers it a bit.
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Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:11 pm to Lsu2B
Depends on the rules. Some of the NCAA powers in the very early days of football would have mauled current teams for a quarter before the entire team was thrown out of the game. So, you'd win but half your team would be in the hospital for the next few weeks.
Playing a 70s NFL team with 70s rules would be a bloodbath for the college kids. Yes, bigger, stronger, faster, but by the time the modern players adapted to what you could do back then the game would be over. You'd be explaining that yes, dive for their knees to your O-line while Ernie Ladd was sodomizing your QB and eating one of his fingers.
Playing a 70s NFL team with 70s rules would be a bloodbath for the college kids. Yes, bigger, stronger, faster, but by the time the modern players adapted to what you could do back then the game would be over. You'd be explaining that yes, dive for their knees to your O-line while Ernie Ladd was sodomizing your QB and eating one of his fingers.
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:12 pm to Lsu2B
LOLOLOLOLOL. NFL all day, every day and any day that ends in Y. What college team is stopping Bob Hayes, Jim Brown, Roger Staubach ? Not to mention a slew of other pro players even the ones on bad teams. The defenses' back then would punish college players of today.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:12 pm to TigahTX
No they wouldn’t. The players today are much bigger, faster stronger. OL back then were like 250 pounds.
No college team can beat a modern NFL team or even keep it close, but college teams today are way better than old NFL teams
No college team can beat a modern NFL team or even keep it close, but college teams today are way better than old NFL teams
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:16 pm to Lsu2B
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Today's players in college are twice the size and speed than 70's NFL roster
What year do you think they invented bigger people? 1981?
If they weren't playing it wasn't because they didn't exist, it was because they weren't good football players. There was a toughness and physicality to the game that no longer really exists.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:17 pm to cattus
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I remember in the 70s college seniors played the NFL champions every year in front of full stadiums and it was a special game to my grandfather.
I thought about this after my post.
The 1972 Dolphins only beat the all-stars 14-0 the following July. Steelers won 21-14 and 24-0 in the ‘70s. And this was at the height of the fricking wishbone era.
The ‘70s college teams only had seniors and hadn’t played together. And Burrow, Chase, and Jefferson couldn’t move the ball on them? 2021 UGA couldn’t slow them down?
horseshite.
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:41 pm to Lsu2B
The median age of the posters here is evidence they’ve never watched highlights of 70’s NFL. Today’s college game is too pussified to match up to those guys. It’s throwing for 500 yards with no running backs and scoring 50. No way a 70’s defense lets that happen while running the ball for 250 yards against today’s defenses.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:47 pm to Lsu2B
A modern college football team would destroy an NFL team from the 70s. OL and DL were in the 260s/270s. Plus, strength conditioning is so far advanced from what it was back then.
The only chance the 70s team would have is if you played by early 70s NFL rules.
The only chance the 70s team would have is if you played by early 70s NFL rules.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:58 pm to Lunaticringelol
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No way a 70’s defense lets that happen while running the ball for 250 yards against today’s defenses.
So you think the ‘70s Super Bowl champs that couldn’t break the 20s against college players that were thrown together for an all-star game are just going to dick slap 2021 UGA with five first round draft picks on D?
That’s ludicrous.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:27 pm to Lsu2B
Using the rules of the time or today’s rules? I don’t think the QB makes it through the first quarter.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:31 pm to GeauxtigersMs36
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Using the rules of the time or today’s rules? I don’t think the QB makes it through the first quarter.
Which QB? The one behind the OL averaging about 260 lb. or 315+ lb.?
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:31 pm to Lsu2B
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Today's players in college are twice the size and speed than 70's NFL roster
Some of yall just say the dumbest things
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:33 pm to Lsu2B
Could the 1927 New York Yankees murderers’ row beat the Dodgers of the last two years? Probably not
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:13 pm to Lsu2B
Dude. College teams woukd all get absolutely crushed on LOS. It woukd get ugly quick.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:14 pm to cattus
There is only one answer. What era rules are the playing by? 1970’s? No targeting, no pass interference for laying a receiver out. No penalties for horse collars, blindside hits, below the knees, pile driving a QB, RB or WR. Google Johnny Holland “the hit” it was a legal play then. To give an example. Y’all really think a college kid today could handle Conrad Dobler? Lol…
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:21 pm to Globetrotter747
The 72 Dolphins and the 78 Steelers would win by at least a field goal IF played in 70’s rules. Mugging the WR and killing the QB without stupid woke football penalties. The Steelers probably knock Bennett out of the game and defend the WR. Play the game in today’s rules, the 2022 team probably wins.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:25 pm to Globetrotter747
You mean the games in which NFL players had already played a full season and took it easy on the college all stars team to avoid injury? Even with the size advantage grown men will always be stronger, smarter and faster than college kids. From the time the NFL started being a real career on up the NFL would have the physical and mental edge
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:26 pm to TigahTX
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Any NFL team from the late 1960s up would dominate any college team you can think of.
Absolutely. I’d take 2019 LSU over any and every team from the 1960s and 1970s
They wouldn’t know what they were looking at while on defense and their offense would be vanilla enough to shut down.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:38 pm to Lsu2B
Steelers and Raiders would destroy Indiana if you play by 70’s rules. Indiana wouldn’t have a player left on the field in 4th quarter. Whimps.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:44 pm to Jster15
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Y’all really think a college kid today could handle Conrad Dobler?
Not to mention Dobler didn’t play nice…
He knows perfectly well how any mention of fairness or honor might sound, coming from someone who made his reputation as the maestro of a nasty little karate kick technique called the leg whip, coming from a man best known for using his helmet, his feet, his knees, his fingers, a plaster cast, and — perhaps most famously — his teeth as lethal weapons. This is, after all, the same Conrad Dobler whom Sports Illustrated anointed on its cover in 1977 as "Pro Football's Dirtiest Player," the same Conrad Dobler who titled his own autobiography "They Call Me Dirty." This is the Conrad Dobler who gouged eyes and twisted facemasks and worked hard to irritate everyone
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