![]() In baseball, if it rains, we don't come out to play. Baseball has the sacrifice.ĬARLIN: Football is played in any kind of weather - rain, sleet, snow, hail, mud, can't read the numbers on the field, can't read the yard markers, can't read the players' numbers the struggle will continue. ![]() GEORGE CARLIN: Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, blocking, piling on, late hitting, unnecessary roughness and personal fouls. Let's listen to the George Carlin routine you cite. You cite a George Carlin routine as being kind of symptomatic of - if you will - the passing, going in different directions, between baseball and football in the 1970s. SIMON: What a way to get people into the tent. ![]() The drugs, the booze, the cheating and headhunting, the occasionally seamy sex, and the risks the game posed to players' health. KEVIN COOK: And it goes: (Reading) This book isn't meant to glorify the uglier aspects of NFL football in the 1970s and early '80s. And we asked him to start with the first line of his book. His new book is "The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s - The Era That Created Modern Sports." He joins us from our studios in New York. ![]() Kevin Cook writes for Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and other fine publications. ![]()
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