stillers4me
10-23-2010, 11:33 PM
So you thought everyone would be tired by now of talking about hits, fines what it means for the NFL. Think again.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Post-Gazette
Jack Ham drives into Cleveland's Brian Sipe -- face first.
Jack Ham made eight Pro Bowls, earned four Super Bowl rings, made the Pro Football Hall of Fame and is considered by many the best outside linebacker ever.
And no one can recall him ever launching into a ball-carrier, he never went head-hunting and he practically never missed a tackle.
So, if the greatest outside linebacker of all time can do it that way, why can't current players? Because the game and the players have changed, Ham said.
"I wasn't 260 pounds making these hits,'' Ham said before boarding a plane to broadcast the Penn State-Minnesota game. "Safeties and linebackers are bigger, faster, stronger and they're going to have bigger collisions. The guys I tackled were 220, guys like me. Now, outside linebackers are 255, 260. I'm not sure the perspective is the same.''
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10297/1097642-66.stm?cmpid=steelers.xml&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz13FPb6i1v
Sunday, October 24, 2010
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201010/ham_160.jpg
Post-Gazette
Jack Ham drives into Cleveland's Brian Sipe -- face first.
Jack Ham made eight Pro Bowls, earned four Super Bowl rings, made the Pro Football Hall of Fame and is considered by many the best outside linebacker ever.
And no one can recall him ever launching into a ball-carrier, he never went head-hunting and he practically never missed a tackle.
So, if the greatest outside linebacker of all time can do it that way, why can't current players? Because the game and the players have changed, Ham said.
"I wasn't 260 pounds making these hits,'' Ham said before boarding a plane to broadcast the Penn State-Minnesota game. "Safeties and linebackers are bigger, faster, stronger and they're going to have bigger collisions. The guys I tackled were 220, guys like me. Now, outside linebackers are 255, 260. I'm not sure the perspective is the same.''
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10297/1097642-66.stm?cmpid=steelers.xml&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz13FPb6i1v