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[QUOTE="Ringostar57, post: 1886948, member: 5189"]
Interesting way to look at it......but from my view 60 years ago you would never ask this question.
When football went unlimited substitution and two platoon and super specialized it became something other than what it had been......for purists and oldtimers back in the 60s it died! Like this old (61 year old) coach who had seen Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski play, hit it on the head when he told me circa 1963 that "now you have teams within a team groups within groups, the need for more players cliques within cliques, that this simple brutal game has become a complicated 3 ring circus."
When we played both ways it was different. I can't say it was better...but there was a greater sense of accountability and unity. The TEAM was eleven guys going against 11 guys both ways.  You owned the result. You couldn't blame it on the defense, you couldn't blame it on the offense, or special teams. . you were it! and with subs being limited to one time per half the pressure to perform was great.  If you got subbed out for screwing up it wasn't just not seeing the field for the rest of the game but seeing the field at all for the rest of the season.
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