Except, you know, leather helmets were actually safer.
Today's modern football player is a genetic freak: a well-equipped, well-nourished, honed, trained machine of lethality ensconced in thirteen pounds of body armor.
To this machine, add repeated impacts that frequently exceed the threshold of 40 mph car collisions -- and pull more Gs than an F16 fighter pilot
At 5 ft. 11 in. and 199 pounds, Marcus Trufant is an average-size NFL defensive back (DB). Those stats don't stand out in a league where more than 500 players weighed 300-plus pounds at the 2006 training camps.