There is a lot of discussion today over at SB Nation on the violence of the game. One of the points they are making is that football is going to change. That’s the understatement of the year. I have been watching the game since 1980, and it’s already changed a lot.
None of those changes have come without a lot of protests. The first big change happened right before I started watching the game, and I saw the remaining fragments of the debate. Defenders could no longer molest receivers, and slowly the college game evolved from a run oriented game with the running back being the star to a fancy passing game, where the QB is the main man.