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Will the NFL become the 'modern NBA'?

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by Bubbahotep, Feb 13, 2026 at 4:59 AM.

  1. MojoUW

    MojoUW Well-Known Member

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    Here is another example that demonstrates it is more culture, economics, and access to resources than what people think of as genetics.

    When the doughboys got off the transport ships in Europe and moved from the assembly areas to trenches on the WWI western front...the armies of both sides were staggered by the size and fitness of the Americans. They figured they couldn't fight a proper war worth a darn...but they sure were big! Same reaction in WWII.

    Why? The average American....whose genetic ancestry is from the same places as the European combatants in WWI and WWII...had access to far more nutrition at a younger age than their European counterparts. The beginnings of industrialized agriculture were taking effect in America...while Europe was still farming in ways similar to the medieval period.

    Epigenetics and nutrition.
     
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  2. Joel Buchsbaum

    Joel Buchsbaum Well-Known Member

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    You are off base. Back then in the origin of basketball 1891-1950 most African Americans hardly played. In the USA players who did were of UK descent ( watch or play with a man from the UK in basketball for a chuckle ) or short Italians ancestry men on the east coast of the USA. The Jews had some small and quick men back then. But the way basketball is now, with the average height being 6'6" tall, a high very few jews reach height hence they are not likely found in the NBA.

    I see you don't belive in NFl bloodlines. I do.

    YES. Eastern Europeans are doing well in the NBA now but the # was very few of them back from 1891-1950 in the USA. But men form France, or the UK far from it.

    West Europe has had there chances to play USA football. East Europe nations boys age 14-18 have generaly not.
     
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  3. Steeldude

    Steeldude Well-Known Member

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    I thought this post meant is the NFL going to stop using the rule book like they have done in the NBA.
     
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  4. MojoUW

    MojoUW Well-Known Member

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    Here: https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...eotypes-explain-everything-and-nothing-at-all
    And here: https://theshabbatdrop.com/p/when-jews-ruled-basketball

    Red Auerbach was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants born in the tenement slums of NYC. It was a way out of the ghetto.

    Take, a look, it's in a book....the more you know....

    And bloodlines isn't really a thing in people. It isn't really even a thing in racehorses...but...that's a bit off track (get it?).
     
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  5. Joel Buchsbaum

    Joel Buchsbaum Well-Known Member

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    Thanks, but I am talking about 2026 football, not a man born in 1917. I am talking about the impact of athletes that did not get a chance to play football until very recently.

    Having said that I respect your knowledge on genetics.

    The term ghetto was slang by the way. Fairly aware of the history of sports, I am.
     

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