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The Last Headbangers NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s―The Era that Created Modern Sports

Kevin Cook

The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history―pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence. Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in sk...

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Monday Morning Podcast

Bill mentioned reading a book about the era when players played with concussions and the level of cheating that occurred in football. He noted that steroid testing wasn't implemented until 1988 and the Oakland Raiders were notorious for their cheating tactics in the 1970s.

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I'm reading this great book right now on uh I don't have the title of it I'll get it for you next week Lawhead gave me the book something like the last headbangers or something like that it's like bas...

— Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcas...

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 11-25-21

Bill mentioned reading a book about the era when players played with concussions and the level of cheating that occurred in football. He noted that steroid testing wasn't implemented until 1988 and the Oakland Raiders were notorious for their cheating tactics in the 1970s.

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I'm reading this great book right now on uh I don't have the title of it I'll get it for you next week Lawhead gave me the book something like the last headbangers or something like that it's like basically back when you just played with concussions and that type of shit the level of cheating that was going on first of all they didn't even test for steroids I think until like 1988 in football and if you read about the Oakland Raiders who still to this day bitch about the fucking tuck rule um the shit they were doing in the 70s dude do you know like they used to have like their pads they used to soak them in water because it would make them hard and it was almost like having like a cast on and they would just club people in the head and other teams knew that they were doing it so during the pre-games and the warmups they would wear the soft ones and they'd have their hard ones under the bench and there wasn't nine zillion fucking TV cameras and people in the crowd all having TV cameras with their smartphones so when the game started they would put the other pads on they would just clock people in the fucking head these guys were claiming they were taking horse tranquilizers and they were doing the dosage for a fucking 1500-1200 pound fucking horse they were out of their minds hopped up on everything on the plant so people have cheated all day long and the greatest thing about cheating is watching people who don't cheat discover that there's cheating and to just watch them as adults once again discover that there's no Santa Claus and see their bottom lip quiver I just for the life of me the reason why it's funny is not because I condone cheating it's just that I don't fucking get it's like how many times you gotta get fucked over to realize that how human beings are I'm a piece of shit right why wouldn't a football team when there's a zillion dollars at stake and your legacy and your spot on the all time list I'm not saying everybody's gonna cheat but just get this fucking shocked look off your face like when OJ got acquitted oh my god that millionaire the guy who had the money enough to be innocent gets declared innocent yes am I fucking am I like preaching right now I should shut the fuck up

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 11-25-21

It was a book about football back in the day when they just played with concussions, and the level of cheating that was going on. They didn't even test for steroids until 1988 in football.

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I'm reading this great book right now on uh I don't have the title of it I'll get it for you next week Lawhead gave me the book something like the last headbangers or something like that it's like basically back when you just played with concussions and that type of shit the level of cheating that was going on

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 11-25-13

It was mentioned as a book Bill was currently reading about football in the past, specifically about the level of cheating and concussions that occurred.

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I'm reading this great book right now on uh I don't have the title of it. I'll get it for you next week. Lawhead gave me the book Uh, some of the last head bangers or something like that

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