re: Post your unpopular sports opinions

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Any great athlete pre-1980 in any sport would be a mediocre at best athlete in todays game.

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The inverse is also true. The modern athlete is so ridiculously coddled, there is no way they could compete in the conditions 1960s/70s players did. The ABA, for example, had no direct flights to any of their games. So every player had to fly, coach, with at least one connector. And then play three games in four days to maximize revenues for weekend games. Those three games would all be in different cities, sometimes on opposite coasts.

And David Thompson could still walk on air.