Roger Staubach Says New NFL Rules Make it ‘Wussy Game’

Roger Staubach grew up in the 1940s and '50s, attended the Naval Academy and then made a career playing football professionally with the likes of Pittsburgh's "Steel Curtain" defense trying to rip his head off.

So if Staubach calls something "wussy," he may be on to something.

That's exactly what he did in a recent interview with Fanhouse.com when he was asked about new NFL rule changes that favor quarterbacks and rules that try to protect the overall safety of the players.

"The statistics today are overwhelming," Staubach told Tom Lorenzo. "I saw Peyton Manning one time and he had a great comeback drive, but he had two 15-yard roughing the passer penalties. I'm thinking, 'I don't ever remember having one of those.' It's kind of a wussy game, really, in a way."

Of course, Staubach's playing days came long before quarterbacks and top-flight players were making millions and millions of dollars and before players were treated more as commodities and properties than actual football players.

The increasing wealth of knowledge that doctors and researchers are gaining from studying concussions and other football-related injuries continues to grow and have led to many of the rule changes the NFL has instituted over the past few years.

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