>Just look at passing numbers for good/great QBs back in the
>60s and 70s. You'll see Star, Namath, Bradshaw, etc throwing
>20 times a game or less. To say teams focus on the run now as
>much as they did then is so wrong it's not funny. Hell, the
>way the D backs are held in check with these rules today,
>you'd be a fool to not to think pass first.

Fuckouttahere! Joe Namath passed for 4000 yards in '67. Sonny Jurgenson threw for 3700 in '61 and '67. The passing offenses weren't a sosphisticated as they are now obviously but don't act like people didn't throw the ball.