Joe D & Gene Upshaw

[Skinsfan1967]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Apparently though, today's players do more for yesterday's players than those players did for their own predecessors back in the day. It's like the pot calling the kettle black. Or so I've heard

The income potential for today's players is in the millions per year, the guys from the seventies made about half the current league minimum. The league is bigger and more profitable now, players and owners,imo, owe the former players at least a small amount of effort.