There are so many reasons why more people have a 1000 yards rushing in a season. The extended schedule but mainly the better playing conditions. The fields are better and players have better equipment. There conditioning has increased and because of improvements in medicine, guys heal faster (even without HGH). Don't you dare talk badly about the former football greats.
The magic of Gale Sayers was not what he could do over the course of a season but what he could do on one play. If you had one play to make something incredible happen, give the ball to Sayers. (If you had two plays, give the next one to Barry Sanders.)
The proliferation of 1000 yd rushers is the result of the extended schedule. Jim Brown's
1247 in 1960 was done in 12 games. O.J. Simpson's 2003 in 1973 was done in 14 games. Maybe 100 yards a game would be a more fitting measure of a great season.
I'd place a lot of value on the median rush of a running back. In HS my senior year I led the team in yards rushing but I wasn't the go-to guy because I wasn't consistent. This big fellow could get yards in a collapsed pocket, so he got the rock. Once in a blue moon I could rip off a big one, but he got first downs, so even mean rushing yards may be a misleading stat. Median rushing yards may be the most underrated stat.
There are so many reasons why more people have a 1000 yards rushing in a season. The extended schedule but mainly the better playing conditions. The fields are better and players have better equipment. There conditioning has increased and because of improvements in medicine, guys heal faster (even without HGH). Don't you dare talk badly about the former football greats.
laikasp 4 years ago
Its Called Consistency
DUH
JIM BROWN G.O.A.T
SD419 4 years ago
The magic of Gale Sayers was not what he could do over the course of a season but what he could do on one play. If you had one play to make something incredible happen, give the ball to Sayers. (If you had two plays, give the next one to Barry Sanders.)
oneofthe4truegods 4 years ago
The proliferation of 1000 yd rushers is the result of the extended schedule. Jim Brown's
1247 in 1960 was done in 12 games. O.J. Simpson's 2003 in 1973 was done in 14 games. Maybe 100 yards a game would be a more fitting measure of a great season.
oneofthe4truegods 4 years ago
I'd place a lot of value on the median rush of a running back. In HS my senior year I led the team in yards rushing but I wasn't the go-to guy because I wasn't consistent. This big fellow could get yards in a collapsed pocket, so he got the rock. Once in a blue moon I could rip off a big one, but he got first downs, so even mean rushing yards may be a misleading stat. Median rushing yards may be the most underrated stat.
stodles 4 years ago