Exactly. I remember an old "Rest of the Story" by Paul Harvey on the radio. He read a long spiel from someone about how kids today were not responsible, culture was taking a dive, etc. etc. The reveal at the end was that it was written by someone from ancient Greece over 2000 years ago.

For the OP: Read up on some of the stuff that players used to do a couple of decades ago. Read something like Junction Boys where the players would trash bars and Bryant had to send bags of cash to the bar owners to pay for the repairs. And the players would put cherry bombs under cars causing all kinds of damage.
Or heck, check out some of the story from the pros in those days. That Art Donovan guy have some pretty good ones if I remember.

Human nature does not change much from era to era.

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 9/8/14 at 2:27 pm to Methuselah

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For the OP: Read up on some of the stuff that players used to do a couple of decades ago. Read something like Junction Boys where the players would trash bars and Bryant had to send bags of cash to the bar owners to pay for the repairs. And the players would put cherry bombs under cars causing all kinds of damage.

And how many of those guys struck a Heisman pose (or anything else remotely as showboating as that) under the Bear's watch in College Station? Or in Tuscaloosa? Remember Broadway Joe Namath? You remember how many full length fur coats he wore on the sidelines when he was playing for Bear Bryant?

Yeah, it was a different time. You showed respect for the game and your opponent, and stuff that was off the field was kept off the field. Both of those have changed dramatically over the years; one for the better (mostly), one for the worse.

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Human nature does not change much from era to era.

Human nature hasn't changed since it became human (maybe longer). Societies' responses to human nature, specifically including their permissiveness, often change dramatically.