It’s one of those seeming inevitabilities of life: You’re going along as a perfectly reasonable individual, and then, one day, that sure sign of old age creeps in: You are determined to tell everyone around you that things were much tougher in your day. Athletes are not immune in any sport — in fact, it’s a common thing for players to insist that none of these dadgum kids would have been able to survive in their days.
Now, courtesy of ESPN’s “Bullies of Baltimore” 30 for 30 documentary, we have former journeyman quarterback and Super Bowl XXXV passenger Trent Dilfer informing the quarterbacks of today that they would have had no chance of their current generational exploits in his time.