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Bill Romanowski was in a Non-NFL Football Video Game too, the game Blitz: The League had a linebacker name Bruno Battaglia, who was a notorious cheap shot artist, in a league filled with them in-universe, and an absolute psychopath more worried about injuring the opposition then actually playing. When they updated the game for XBox , Bill Romanowski portrayed Bruno Battaglia, and it wasn't just a Voice over Bruno's character model was even changed to look more like Bill,
The crown of the helmet only became illegal in the last 15 years or so. To be fair, Romonowski was an excellent linebacker. The issue is he took things too far. His intensity was really good until he took things too far, which he often did. The rules were a lot lighter back then. One of the famous sayings, I believe by Marcus Allen, "you have to be a little crazy to be great in this game".
Agree with 100%. I'm old school football from the 60's but that wasn't old school at all. Players like Dick Butkus was hard nosed and wanted to put people out of a game or make them remember who hit them. It was all by hitting as hard as possible for him. Not this stuff. He went half over the line but never that way. Great reaction! Merry Christmas!
When I saw the title first time (I saw it before this somewhere else and knew who it was about) I thought, oh, Conrad Dobler--still do when I hear this phrase--he was much worse than Romanowski because much more was allowed when he played in the 70s. But history only begins with the birth of the maker of these videos.
You two are the best at breaking down game film. Even though you say you don't know much you guys are smart enough to figure out rules that you don't understand and articulate enough to express it to everybody. Keep up the good work and thanks. I do have to add I love your moral stance.
The mental place Romo put himself in before games in unlike anything I’ve ever heard of. I can’t repeat it on UA-cam but if you look it up his playing style makes a lot more sense
Targeting was not illegal back then and fans actually wanted to see more “big hits” like that. When I was growing up they actually had cheers encouraging the team to injure other players to take them out of the game. It’s only since discovering the extent and seriousness of CTE that things changed.
he was a beast you loved him when he was on your team cause he impacted the game but hated him when he played against you he scared the shit out of people
He played in an era before concussions were heavily recognized and targeting was not a rule yet. Horse collar tackles weren't even illegal yet although that wasn't Romanowski's style. Either way though, he got away with a lot more than he could have in today's game
His Wikipedia page also has a section of all the times he was accused of racism, and he was sued by the IRS for unpaid taxes. An all-around jerk, basically.
I think a different, former Raider, was the dirtiest player in NFL history was Jack Tatum. He made a receiver a quadriplegic with a viscous hit in 1978.
Would love to see the juxtaposition of watching the one Ive put in discord, covering defenders taking the full blame for hits today, even ones that are more the QB/WR fault
It is funny. I watched him play and considered him a hard-nosed, old school LB - a few questionable "heat-of-the-moment" plays, but never thought of him as a sociopath. This video was an eye-opener. That being said, there are a lot of NFL players with rap sheets full of infractions and fines like Romanowski's. Truth is that you have to be a bit nuts to play in the NFL, and some are more nuts than others. In no way condoning this guy's behavior - just acknowledging that there are more guys like him in the NFL that we care to admit.
Love watching you guys. I played Highschool football in Texas. Then the game was much different, I graduated in 1997. Our coaches taught us that football was a privilege, a rite of passage. It's a game of imposing your will on the man across from you. Football is not a contact sport; it is a collision sport and a combat sport. We play football when we are not fighting a real war. This is where we wage war in peacetime. We knew what we were getting into. We could lay a receiver out in the first 5 yards from the line of scrimmage, and he was free game as soon as a finger touched the ball. Quarterbacks could get hit just like everybody else. They were praised for their toughness and bravery for standing in the pocket an taking the hit to complete the pass. A proper tackle was plating your facemask in the numbers on the jersey of the opposing player, wrapping your arms around his waist, driving your feet pushing the crown of the helmet upwards into the chinstrap and driving the player into to the ground. Some coaches did preach dirty play, but our coaches never taught us, nor did I ever believe in trying to go for a knee and taking someone out of the game that way. Thats cheap and weak. You hit him hard and clean, and if he doesn't want to get back on the field with you, then you did your job. Blood makes the grass grow. "He didn't belong here anyway. Go play baseball or something else and stay off my field." I understand trying to make the game safer, but for me football was THE sport where we could test ourselves, test our bravery and our limits as a young man becoming a man alongside our brothers. If you remove too much of the risk, you cheapen the reward. Keep doing what you guys are doing, God bless you and Merry Christmas.
Football was violent in the 80’s, heck basketball too. Man if you threatened anyone then in a basketball court or football field you would bet exactly what you asked for. Played a league basketball game and 2 times that game I had to take a step back. Man, it is tough dealing with kids that dealt with zero consequences.
@@advancedchiropractic667...We all played football in the 1980s and we loved it. We never complained about violence. It was just normal, real man football. You hit the man in front of you as hard as you could on every play. Not this grabbing that they teach nowadays.
I was at first conflicted as to whether I should give this video a like. However, it does acurately convey BR's disgraceful story. D&N and the video creator do a good job here.👍
Lifelong Broncos fan and I hated that he was on those Super Bowl teams. Romo is one of the most disgusting players in history. They don’t even touch on his use of racial slurs here either.
Romanowski eventually became too much for the Raiders. As you continue on your journey into the NFL history it will become clear how awful of a human being you are if the Raiders can no longer deal with you.
I am surprised that opposing teams would not decide revenge is a dish best served cold. I'd spend the rest of my career hunting down his knees. Not right, yes. But if the League wasn't doing anything about it... He'd have to hurt people from the DL.
Suh has flown off the handle and done a few not-okay things, but he isn’t/wasn’t even on the level of dirtiness of a Rodney Harrison (lol for some reason I typed Dangerfield at first - I almost didn’t even notice before posting either) or Hines Ward, let alone the genuinely unhinged Romanowski (incidentally, is Suh still in the league? feel like I haven’t seen or heard about him in quite awhile)
Couldn't imagine being a team mate of Romo's. I'll bet he was the biggest bully in the schoolyard as a kid. I'm with Nick though, you spit in my face and its on!! ♣
Funny thing is he's not even the biggest dickhead out of the guards, Stone Cold is an even bigger dickhead in the movie. Although, the difference is Stone Cold was acting and Romanowski was just being himself.
Going back to the 1970s, Conrad Dobler an offensive lineman was noted for his dirty tactics. Going back even further, Art Donovan a defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts in the 50s and 60s was noted for some of his bad on field behavior. Years later he made an excellent guest on talk shows telling stories of the good old days of the NFL. ua-cam.com/video/kGkspKQ7Dok/v-deo.htmlsi=tERBgVEJIsRNQs0- ua-cam.com/video/LPr5QGGlE2w/v-deo.htmlsi=VUTPtHBx4BNgzke2
I can proudly say that I was hit over the head with a trash can by Bill Romanowski. At least I'm pretty sure it was him. Or him and another player. I grew up in Brookline, MA, and my best friend lived right down the street from a bar called MaryAnns. It was just down the street from BC, so it was the big BC bar hangout. One night, in around 1984 or so I was in the bar and the place was full up and a lot of the guys were BC football guys. Naturally, someone started a fight, and it turned into an all out drunken college football player fight. We tried to get the hell out, but got swept up in it, and although I was hammered, I distinctly remember being shoved out of the door onto the sidewalk. Then I see Romo in the crowd throwing an old aluminum trash can which hit me enough that I don't remember anything after until I woke up the next morning in the Brookline PD in protective custody. Thank god the sergeant in charge was my best friend's father, so in the morning he just let me out and I took the T home. But they won the Cotton Bowl that year with Doug Flutie and the miracle throw to Doug Phelan, so it was worth it.
You guys talking about disrespecting opponents as the spitting incident is paused and about to be played is too perfect. I can't wait to unpause the video and see your reaction to it.
Everybody hated Rominowski. I doubt his own mother liked him. He is not a representative of the norm. He was to the NFL what Bill Laimbeer was to the NBA.
Romanowski played football like us old guys use too. You had to or get destroyed. We played thru injuries of any kind . I played and practiced with concussions now I'm paying for it like so many others . A broken arm ,sprained ankles ,boke ribs and a knee injury. It was a different time. Every game was war .
That "punk" shattered Marcus Williams face with ONE PUNCH... only punk here is the keyboard warriors calling one of the roughest meanest men on earth a "punk".. 🤡
you guys are from a different era because IF you went further back with Mike Curtis, Dick Butka, etc and you would find that Romo fit right in -- it was what it was -- Romo was awesome
Roid rage is mostly a myth. Sure there is a small percentage that you would say have it, but from my experience being around guys if you are an a-hole then you'll just be a bigger a-hole. If you're a nice guy then you'll just be a bigger nice guy.
Oh please, I was a white boy playing football in the day and the black players would try to hurt you. No one says it here, but speak up other enforcer white guys on here. They tried him and he was the wrong white player and they either didn’t or found out the consequences. Black players tell me you did not try to weed out the softer players. I am not against black players at all I am just telling you how it was. I had the swag and the toughness the black players respected and I them. Made me a better man.
Bill was old school. You have to play sports with a warrior mentality and if you don't then I'm assuming you're just out on the field to kill time/enjoy a hobby instead of actual win for your city
This video shows to me how much the game of football has changed because those hits were not illegal back then. Salaries in those days we actually still quite low because free agency was quite new back then. I will admit I hated him and I was never played in the NFL because his attitude. It was like he enjoyed being a psychopath and in a game where you are only one second away from a possible life threatening injury players like him should not be allowed to participate.
These titles are stupid---"...in history"--sure if history started with your birth. Conrad Dobler makes Romanowski look like a boy scout. And there were others during and after Conrad. Eye-rolling lack of knowledge about the past, but I guess for the guy who made this video, Romanowski was a long time ago. Sheesh.
@gregcable3250 He's correct..There were countless dirty players in the 70's and 80's..Jack Tatum paralyzed a receiver...please go watch Lyle Alzado's ""football life" episode ..You will see how brutal the game uses to be.
I don't get the comparatively heavy outrage with the spitting compared to the broken jaw, dislocated elbow, etc. Hell, he can spit at me all he wants if it means I don't get a broken/dislocated whatever. Oh, no, he spit in my face! I just don't get the comparative level of outrage for this--oh, he disrespected me!! Well what is he doing when he breaks your jaw with the crown of his helmet? Huh?
You’re an idiot. Do you seriously not get the hatred and disrespect someone has to spit in your mouth. They have just degraded you to the point that you are nothing but the scum of the universe. Are diseases spread by saliva alien to you as well?
It's the fact that spitting in or near your mouth? Nevermind in general is f*cking disgusting, the texture/bacteria in that for some and the complete disregard for you as a person, (the act itself rather then the result,) for some that's going to be worse then physical pain. It's the other way around for you? Sure but for others? The disgust and the added offense of spraying bodily fluids at someone like an animal is going to be worse. It's adding insult to injury. But also its not like they were okay with the physical hits he did.
@@elazybelleorr2472 First of all, you get more bodily fluids from someone's mouth when you are kissing your partner. So, the bad hygiene aspect is overblown. It is really a socially repulsive thing to do--it is a learned behavior to take insult to spitting in many, but not all, cultures. For example, the Massai of Kenya have a tradition of spitting on others and it is considered a blessing and a sign of respect. Really. So our strongest part of the response to someone spitting on us is the culturally learned response that it is a sign of great disrespect--I have that response, too, of course. But to break someone's jaw with the crown of your helmet (intentionally, that is) or to break someone's finger intentionally during a game, or to strike someone after they have clearly stopped fighting (a "sucker punch") is a univeral sign of disrespect and exponetially more harmful than getting spit in your face (unless the person knowingly is passing on disease--which is not the case here). Moreover, Romanowski, having grown up in our culture knew full well that he was showing disrespect--his full intention. In summary, intentionally causing physical harm the way Romanowski worse physicially than the spitting and is universally more harmful and disrespectful than a culturally learned response to spitting. If you can find me a single example where what Romanowski did physically to these players is considered socially acceptable in that game context, please do. I have an open mind, but you won't find it. Again, spit in my face instead of breaking my jaw, finger, orbital ridge (with the vision and memory problems that followed that).
Man, just the little comments between you two while important things are being said is annoying.. even what they are showing on screen. Sometimes the guy to the left doesn’t catch it because he’s too busy looking somewhere else for some reason.. even if it’s for two seconds.. 🤦♂️🤷♂️🤫
I'm not certain but I highly doubt he was punished for breaking Meggett's finger. It's hard to discern who is doing what, and hearsay isn't good enough, even with a broken digit to show the ref. It could have happened during the play, they need to SEE Romo trying to do it in order to penalize him. Also it isn't your fault obviously because you aren't as familiar with the sport and it's history but the hit on Collins was not even seen as that dirty. Probably didn't draw a flag, and I can promise you he wasn't punished further than the fine. If Collins jaw didn't break, he probably wouldn't have been in any trouble at all. You guys consistently underestimate just how ruthless and violent the NFL used to be, in particular before the 2000s. That was just a normal thing in those days.. now, not everybody aimed at your face, but lowering the helmet and trying to killshot people was totally normal and accepted. It was part of the game, if you wanted to play offense and make big plays, there was always the chance you could end up losing your teeth. I miss it, to be honest. I understand why it had to be abolished, but it's not nearly as fun to watch anymore.
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Dude was so mentally unbalanced. I am a fan of playing hard and hitting hard, but Romo just left his soul in the locker room.
When he wasn't playing dirty, he was one of the best Inside Linebackers. 😂
Bill Romanowski was in a Non-NFL Football Video Game too, the game Blitz: The League had a linebacker name Bruno Battaglia, who was a notorious cheap shot artist, in a league filled with them in-universe, and an absolute psychopath more worried about injuring the opposition then actually playing. When they updated the game for XBox , Bill Romanowski portrayed Bruno Battaglia, and it wasn't just a Voice over Bruno's character model was even changed to look more like Bill,
The crown of the helmet only became illegal in the last 15 years or so. To be fair, Romonowski was an excellent linebacker. The issue is he took things too far. His intensity was really good until he took things too far, which he often did. The rules were a lot lighter back then. One of the famous sayings, I believe by Marcus Allen, "you have to be a little crazy to be great in this game".
Amazing quote
Agree with 100%. I'm old school football from the 60's but that wasn't old school at all. Players like Dick Butkus was hard nosed and wanted to put people out of a game or make them remember who hit them. It was all by hitting as hard as possible for him. Not this stuff. He went half over the line but never that way. Great reaction! Merry Christmas!
Glad you enjoyed it! Merry Christmas!! 🎄
I think Vontaze Burfict deserves some honorable mention for this category too
Players like Rominowski have been weeded out of the NFL. He was so damn scary. You never knew what he would do.
Merry Christmas.
When I saw the title I though, "Romanowski!"
When I saw the title first time (I saw it before this somewhere else and knew who it was about) I thought, oh, Conrad Dobler--still do when I hear this phrase--he was much worse than Romanowski because much more was allowed when he played in the 70s. But history only begins with the birth of the maker of these videos.
You two are the best at breaking down game film. Even though you say you don't know much you guys are smart enough to figure out rules that you don't understand and articulate enough to express it to everybody. Keep up the good work and thanks. I do have to add I love your moral stance.
Thank you Tim, really appreciate this comment, we appreciate you 🙏
The mental place Romo put himself in before games in unlike anything I’ve ever heard of. I can’t repeat it on UA-cam but if you look it up his playing style makes a lot more sense
Targeting was not illegal back then and fans actually wanted to see more “big hits” like that. When I was growing up they actually had cheers encouraging the team to injure other players to take them out of the game. It’s only since discovering the extent and seriousness of CTE that things changed.
John Lynch once said Steve Tasker twisted his jock at the bottom of the pile in his rookie yr and said welcome to the league rook.
he was a beast you loved him when he was on your team cause he impacted the game but hated him when he played against you he scared the shit out of people
He played in an era before concussions were heavily recognized and targeting was not a rule yet. Horse collar tackles weren't even illegal yet although that wasn't Romanowski's style. Either way though, he got away with a lot more than he could have in today's game
i cant believe cowherd was joking with him like he just made a little mistake
His Wikipedia page also has a section of all the times he was accused of racism, and he was sued by the IRS for unpaid taxes. An all-around jerk, basically.
A report from June 2023 stated that the IRS were pursuing BR and his spouse for over $15.4 million in unpaid taxes.
Fuck the IRS
I think a different, former Raider, was the dirtiest player in NFL history was Jack Tatum. He made a receiver a quadriplegic with a viscous hit in 1978.
And it happened in a preseason game. 😳
Tatum was just a hard hitter.
hear one story, "He's a psycho!" BUT WAIT! There's more!
Would love to see the juxtaposition of watching the one Ive put in discord, covering defenders taking the full blame for hits today, even ones that are more the QB/WR fault
So happy you gave my man the shout out! Romocop!
Merry Christmas!
Thank you Erik, Merry Christmas to you too!
Lyle Alzado was pretty dirty too.
So were most players in those days (sorry Raiders fan :)
@@lodeywhat, you think we don't know? 😂
Another case of roid rage which contributed to his early death.🙁
Romanowski is the type of guy who would have ended up in prison for murder if he didn’t have football as an outlet. What a sick man.
To your guy’s joke about hygiene, you should check out Romo’s former team mate Mark Schlereth, nicknamed “Stink”
It is funny. I watched him play and considered him a hard-nosed, old school LB - a few questionable "heat-of-the-moment" plays, but never thought of him as a sociopath. This video was an eye-opener. That being said, there are a lot of NFL players with rap sheets full of infractions and fines like Romanowski's. Truth is that you have to be a bit nuts to play in the NFL, and some are more nuts than others. In no way condoning this guy's behavior - just acknowledging that there are more guys like him in the NFL that we care to admit.
I would love to see your reaction to the last 20 minutes of "Friday Night Lights "( the movie)..
Great video, would like to see you react to 10 Dirtiest NFL players of all time. 👍
And to think... I saw almost all of these live...
Bill was not the only guy that way. He was one of many . Kill or be killed was the rule in old school football.
Love watching you guys. I played Highschool football in Texas. Then the game was much different, I graduated in 1997. Our coaches taught us that football was a privilege, a rite of passage. It's a game of imposing your will on the man across from you. Football is not a contact sport; it is a collision sport and a combat sport. We play football when we are not fighting a real war. This is where we wage war in peacetime. We knew what we were getting into.
We could lay a receiver out in the first 5 yards from the line of scrimmage, and he was free game as soon as a finger touched the ball. Quarterbacks could get hit just like everybody else. They were praised for their toughness and bravery for standing in the pocket an taking the hit to complete the pass. A proper tackle was plating your facemask in the numbers on the jersey of the opposing player, wrapping your arms around his waist, driving your feet pushing the crown of the helmet upwards into the chinstrap and driving the player into to the ground.
Some coaches did preach dirty play, but our coaches never taught us, nor did I ever believe in trying to go for a knee and taking someone out of the game that way. Thats cheap and weak. You hit him hard and clean, and if he doesn't want to get back on the field with you, then you did your job. Blood makes the grass grow. "He didn't belong here anyway. Go play baseball or something else and stay off my field."
I understand trying to make the game safer, but for me football was THE sport where we could test ourselves, test our bravery and our limits as a young man becoming a man alongside our brothers. If you remove too much of the risk, you cheapen the reward. Keep doing what you guys are doing, God bless you and Merry Christmas.
Football was violent in the 80’s, heck basketball too.
Man if you threatened anyone then in a basketball court or football field you would bet exactly what you asked for.
Played a league basketball game and 2 times that game I had to take a step back. Man, it is tough dealing with kids that dealt with zero consequences.
for sure basketball was a lot different too. Bad boy Pistons@@advancedchiropractic667
@@advancedchiropractic667...We all played football in the 1980s and we loved it. We never complained about violence. It was just normal, real man football. You hit the man in front of you as hard as you could on every play. Not this grabbing that they teach nowadays.
I was at first conflicted as to whether I should give this video a like. However, it does acurately convey BR's disgraceful story. D&N and the video creator do a good job here.👍
Lifelong Broncos fan and I hated that he was on those Super Bowl teams. Romo is one of the most disgusting players in history. They don’t even touch on his use of racial slurs here either.
Jack Tatum wants a word!
I agree with you Nick. If you spit on me it's a declaration of war regardless of who
Romanowski eventually became too much for the Raiders. As you continue on your journey into the NFL history it will become clear how awful of a human being you are if the Raiders can no longer deal with you.
I am surprised that opposing teams would not decide revenge is a dish best served cold. I'd spend the rest of my career hunting down his knees. Not right, yes. But if the League wasn't doing anything about it... He'd have to hurt people from the DL.
I absolutely hated and loved Romo! He was so good and dirty at the same time.
Ndamukong Suh is like the modern day Bill Romo... guy has been involved in his fair share of dirty play, but he remains in the league through it all
Suh has flown off the handle and done a few not-okay things, but he isn’t/wasn’t even on the level of dirtiness of a Rodney Harrison (lol for some reason I typed Dangerfield at first - I almost didn’t even notice before posting either) or Hines Ward, let alone the genuinely unhinged Romanowski (incidentally, is Suh still in the league? feel like I haven’t seen or heard about him in quite awhile)
Couldn't imagine being a team mate of Romo's. I'll bet he was the biggest bully in the schoolyard as a kid. I'm with Nick though, you spit in my face and its on!! ♣
That’s what I’m talking about! Awful behaviour!
most of the stuff he did was not illegal at the time most of the rules in the nfl are lesss than 5 years old after safety became a main priority
No debate hes one of the best ever. That said, without football he would have been a serial killer.
One of the best ever?....😂😂...lol
@areguapiri You must not football very good huh?
He was a good player @@areguapiri
@@areguapiri At his position, Romanowski was definitely one of the best.
You should react to Vontaze Burfict
And I thought Lyle Alzedo was a terror!
Damn, those complete breakfasts sure make a person moody. I wonder if thats what makes Draymond Green so crazy?
Let’s gooooooooo
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First one 🥇 great video
lifelong broncos fan, didn't like him even on our team, and you did romanowski before elway =:(
Bill is actually in the movie "The longest yard" starring Adam Sandler. He portraits a dick prison gaurd.
He was perfectly cast!
I think I’ve seen that film possibly! Does seem like the perfect role 😅
No acting was needed, they just told him to be himself lol
Funny thing is he's not even the biggest dickhead out of the guards, Stone Cold is an even bigger dickhead in the movie. Although, the difference is Stone Cold was acting and Romanowski was just being himself.
The original movie was from 1974.
Going back to the 1970s, Conrad Dobler an offensive lineman was noted for his dirty tactics. Going back even further, Art Donovan a defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts in the 50s and 60s was noted for some of his bad on field behavior. Years later he made an excellent guest on talk shows telling stories of the good old days of the NFL.
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check out Dick Butkus Hard nosed middle linebacker, my Dad's fave player
People always talk about how soft leagues today are but guys like this are the reason because they had no restraint and it couldn't go unaddressed.
Put on your pink panties.
I can proudly say that I was hit over the head with a trash can by Bill Romanowski. At least I'm pretty sure it was him. Or him and another player. I grew up in Brookline, MA, and my best friend lived right down the street from a bar called MaryAnns. It was just down the street from BC, so it was the big BC bar hangout. One night, in around 1984 or so I was in the bar and the place was full up and a lot of the guys were BC football guys. Naturally, someone started a fight, and it turned into an all out drunken college football player fight. We tried to get the hell out, but got swept up in it, and although I was hammered, I distinctly remember being shoved out of the door onto the sidewalk. Then I see Romo in the crowd throwing an old aluminum trash can which hit me enough that I don't remember anything after until I woke up the next morning in the Brookline PD in protective custody. Thank god the sergeant in charge was my best friend's father, so in the morning he just let me out and I took the T home. But they won the Cotton Bowl that year with Doug Flutie and the miracle throw to Doug Phelan, so it was worth it.
That fines list that totaled $79,500 in todays dollars would come to just under $160,000.
Was he dirty, yes, but that wasn't that unusual years ago. Used to happen all the time. NFL used to be a lot dirtier and tougher than it is now
Tougher is absolutely fine, but this type of behaviour isn’t ok
You don’t F with Big Bill…
He was a savage (that crossed the line alot) played great football but it was just too much
"a lot"
Vontaze Burfict Next Pls
Romo shouldn’t be anywhere near the NFL in anyway.
Completely agree!
@@DNReactsdude was an actual sociopath
You guys talking about disrespecting opponents as the spitting incident is paused and about to be played is too perfect. I can't wait to unpause the video and see your reaction to it.
Everybody hated Rominowski. I doubt his own mother liked him. He is not a representative of the norm. He was to the NFL what Bill Laimbeer was to the NBA.
Romanowski played football like us old guys use too. You had to or get destroyed. We played thru injuries of any kind . I played and practiced with concussions now I'm paying for it like so many others . A broken arm ,sprained ankles ,boke ribs and a knee injury. It was a different time. Every game was war .
Nah Romanowski was a punk. There's hard football, and then there's what he did. He crossed the line.
That "punk" shattered Marcus Williams face with ONE PUNCH... only punk here is the keyboard warriors calling one of the roughest meanest men on earth a "punk".. 🤡
This Donco's fan was happy to see him move to another team... Yes, I said Donco's.
😂😂
Do Eli Manning
As a Bronco fan I loved him when he was on the team, but hated him when he wasnt
you guys are from a different era because IF you went further back with Mike Curtis, Dick Butka, etc and you would find that Romo fit right in -- it was what it was -- Romo was awesome
Ndamukong Suh is the DIRTIEST player in NFL history in my opinion.
Rom is close, but Suh is worse.
Roid rage is mostly a myth. Sure there is a small percentage that you would say have it, but from my experience being around guys if you are an a-hole then you'll just be a bigger a-hole. If you're a nice guy then you'll just be a bigger nice guy.
Not exactly make you more one way or the other. Although it is cheating if others are not on gear.
Exactly. Roid rage is a myth. And the dangers of steroids are a myth.
@@areguapiri I never said that there wasn't a risk to taking them or that it wasn't cheating. I wasn't making those points.
Oh please, I was a white boy playing football in the day and the black players would try to hurt you. No one says it here, but speak up other enforcer white guys on here.
They tried him and he was the wrong white player and they either didn’t or found out the consequences.
Black players tell me you did not try to weed out the softer players. I am not against black players at all I am just telling you how it was.
I had the swag and the toughness the black players respected and I them. Made me a better man.
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He's done.
Conrad Dobler was far worse.
Bill was old school. You have to play sports with a warrior mentality and if you don't then I'm assuming you're just out on the field to kill time/enjoy a hobby instead of actual win for your city
You can have a will to win and play hard without being an awful person with it
He was dirty as hell
This video shows to me how much the game of football has changed because those hits were not illegal back then. Salaries in those days we actually still quite low because free agency was quite new back then. I will admit I hated him and I was never played in the NFL because his attitude. It was like he enjoyed being a psychopath and in a game where you are only one second away from a possible life threatening injury players like him should not be allowed to participate.
Also,
Do not be in someone else’s face. Don’t put your face mask to mine threatening me and is what he was doing.
Bottom of the pile. No one saw it
These titles are stupid---"...in history"--sure if history started with your birth. Conrad Dobler makes Romanowski look like a boy scout. And there were others during and after Conrad. Eye-rolling lack of knowledge about the past, but I guess for the guy who made this video, Romanowski was a long time ago. Sheesh.
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Moan moan moan moan moan
Agreed. For most of the video creators, the 1970s and 80s NFL don't exist.
@@Dzaaaaa4332 Thanks for your logic- and evidence-free response. I accept your unconditional surrender of my point. Happy Trails, Roy.
@gregcable3250 He's correct..There were countless dirty players in the 70's and 80's..Jack Tatum paralyzed a receiver...please go watch Lyle Alzado's ""football life" episode ..You will see how brutal the game uses to be.
I don't get the comparatively heavy outrage with the spitting compared to the broken jaw, dislocated elbow, etc. Hell, he can spit at me all he wants if it means I don't get a broken/dislocated whatever. Oh, no, he spit in my face! I just don't get the comparative level of outrage for this--oh, he disrespected me!! Well what is he doing when he breaks your jaw with the crown of his helmet? Huh?
Oh yeah because they condoned the rest didn’t they 🤡
You’re an idiot. Do you seriously not get the hatred and disrespect someone has to spit in your mouth. They have just degraded you to the point that you are nothing but the scum of the universe. Are diseases spread by saliva alien to you as well?
It's the fact that spitting in or near your mouth? Nevermind in general is f*cking disgusting, the texture/bacteria in that for some and the complete disregard for you as a person, (the act itself rather then the result,) for some that's going to be worse then physical pain. It's the other way around for you? Sure but for others? The disgust and the added offense of spraying bodily fluids at someone like an animal is going to be worse. It's adding insult to injury. But also its not like they were okay with the physical hits he did.
@@elazybelleorr2472Exactly my thoughts as well. OP acting as though Damo and Nick are cheering throughout the rest of the video
@@elazybelleorr2472 First of all, you get more bodily fluids from someone's mouth when you are kissing your partner. So, the bad hygiene aspect is overblown. It is really a socially repulsive thing to do--it is a learned behavior to take insult to spitting in many, but not all, cultures. For example, the Massai of Kenya have a tradition of spitting on others and it is considered a blessing and a sign of respect. Really. So our strongest part of the response to someone spitting on us is the culturally learned response that it is a sign of great disrespect--I have that response, too, of course. But to break someone's jaw with the crown of your helmet (intentionally, that is) or to break someone's finger intentionally during a game, or to strike someone after they have clearly stopped fighting (a "sucker punch") is a univeral sign of disrespect and exponetially more harmful than getting spit in your face (unless the person knowingly is passing on disease--which is not the case here). Moreover, Romanowski, having grown up in our culture knew full well that he was showing disrespect--his full intention. In summary, intentionally causing physical harm the way Romanowski worse physicially than the spitting and is universally more harmful and disrespectful than a culturally learned response to spitting. If you can find me a single example where what Romanowski did physically to these players is considered socially acceptable in that game context, please do. I have an open mind, but you won't find it. Again, spit in my face instead of breaking my jaw, finger, orbital ridge (with the vision and memory problems that followed that).
Man, just the little comments between you two while important things are being said is annoying.. even what they are showing on screen. Sometimes the guy to the left doesn’t catch it because he’s too busy looking somewhere else for some reason.. even if it’s for two seconds.. 🤦♂️🤷♂️🤫
Maybe you should pay closer attention as I followed it absolutely fine and didn’t miss anything important. I am here for their added input
Valuable feedback from someone who didn’t pay enough attention to even catch our names 🤦♂️
I'm not certain but I highly doubt he was punished for breaking Meggett's finger. It's hard to discern who is doing what, and hearsay isn't good enough, even with a broken digit to show the ref. It could have happened during the play, they need to SEE Romo trying to do it in order to penalize him.
Also it isn't your fault obviously because you aren't as familiar with the sport and it's history but the hit on Collins was not even seen as that dirty. Probably didn't draw a flag, and I can promise you he wasn't punished further than the fine. If Collins jaw didn't break, he probably wouldn't have been in any trouble at all. You guys consistently underestimate just how ruthless and violent the NFL used to be, in particular before the 2000s.
That was just a normal thing in those days.. now, not everybody aimed at your face, but lowering the helmet and trying to killshot people was totally normal and accepted. It was part of the game, if you wanted to play offense and make big plays, there was always the chance you could end up losing your teeth.
I miss it, to be honest. I understand why it had to be abolished, but it's not nearly as fun to watch anymore.