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Barry Sanders says football is changing, but won't go away

HOUSTON - Twenty years from now, Barry Sanders expects to see a much different NFL than the one he watches today.

"Yeah, you wonder," Sanders said Thursday from radio row at Super Bowl LI. "It has always evolved. The game that I watched as a kid that I loved so much was to some degree different than the one that I played during in the '90s. Obviously, the rule changes and the type of athletes that play, and the kind of guys that play in different positions, and so I think in some ways it’ll keep evolving. But it’ll still be recognizable.