Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.
Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.