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Resident old fart checking in here: From 1934 to 1976 The Chicago Tribune hosted the College All Star football game. A squad of All American seniors were pitted against the previous year's NFL Champs. By the 70's the professional game was becoming just that; a much more evolved game, a year round vocation with conditioning, film study, mandatory out-of-season workouts replacing the take-a-two-month-job-on-construction-to-get-in-shape-for-the-season lifestyle.
This was a college team of seniors, filled with many of the top draft picks of the NFL, not a single college team where you might well have a freshman or a sophomore going up against a 28 - 29 year old established pro.
Toward the end of the series the All Stars were getting creamed every game , but there had been some upsets and some very close games in the history of the game. I think it was a Miami U. grad Bob Jenk's field goal that either beat or tied a mid 60's Packer's team that brought about the wrath of Vince Lombardi and led to the demise of the game.
What had become obvious was that the coaches could not impart enough offensive or defensive knowledge in the two weeks the All Stars had to prepare. Further, NFL teams hated loosing their top draft picks for those two weeks. In short, the rising professionalism of the NFL killed the game.
My own opinion is that the age, size and speed along with the cohesion that any given pro team should have would make them proibitive favorites in a match up against the very best of college football... but I'd be tempted to take the spread if it was the All Stars against the Cardinals or the pre-Marvin Lewis Bengals.
This was a college team of seniors, filled with many of the top draft picks of the NFL, not a single college team where you might well have a freshman or a sophomore going up against a 28 - 29 year old established pro.
Toward the end of the series the All Stars were getting creamed every game , but there had been some upsets and some very close games in the history of the game. I think it was a Miami U. grad Bob Jenk's field goal that either beat or tied a mid 60's Packer's team that brought about the wrath of Vince Lombardi and led to the demise of the game.
What had become obvious was that the coaches could not impart enough offensive or defensive knowledge in the two weeks the All Stars had to prepare. Further, NFL teams hated loosing their top draft picks for those two weeks. In short, the rising professionalism of the NFL killed the game.
My own opinion is that the age, size and speed along with the cohesion that any given pro team should have would make them proibitive favorites in a match up against the very best of college football... but I'd be tempted to take the spread if it was the All Stars against the Cardinals or the pre-Marvin Lewis Bengals.
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