re: Has Anyone In The Sports Media Ever Heard Of Bart Starr?

IMO, the biggest improvement in track and field is the synthetic tracks.

In 1936, Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump at the Big Ten Championships. His mark stood as the world record for 25 years, the Big Ten record until 2010, the school record until 2013 and would have won the 2014 NCAA Championships.

In 1934, LSU's Glen "Slats" Hardin set the world record in the 400-meter hurdles at a meet in Stockholm, Sweden. His mark stood for the record for 19 years and would have placed him 5th at the 2014 NCAA Championships.

Neither Owens nor Hardin ever competed on a synthetic track, nor did they benefit from legal PED's (eg. creatine), not to mention the illegal ones, and it goes without saying that their travel and training methods were very primitive by today's standards.

Allow these things to sink in for a second and think what they might have been capable of if they had been born 80 years later.