Soccer balls only became black and white in the 1970s.
>>150497703cool story brah
>>150497703Those things used to absorb water and obviously get heavier in the wet. I never played with those but when I was a child some of those balls we’re still around at friends places with older parents than mine if that makes sense
>>150498077Same with hockey goalie pads. This discouraged goalies from going to their knees to protect the bottom of the net (where most goals are scored) since they would tire out quickly. So much of the "plumber" era in each sport is caused by technology.
>>150497703Yeah, it's the 1970 and 1974 World Cup ball, the Adidas Telstar, that changed the perceptionThese old leather balls were brutal. One of the reasons the game looked so different back then, especially when it was wet
today's lightweight high tech balls have changed the game - throw-ins with today's balls travel 3x as far as the black & white balls from the 70's-80's- can bend today's balls, couldn't do that until ...when? late 90's? - taking a long-distance ball as a header now is not a brain-injury risk- colours
>>150498761>the "plumber" era in each sportthe fuck?
>>150500162Yuros refer to pre-modern (whatever their definition of modern is) players as plumbers with the implication that they were plumbers during the week and only played sports on the weekends for fun. Rocket Richard for example spent his off seasons building train cars.
>>150499059Every header is a brain injury risk. They just don't want you to know that.
>>150500267ah, I see.like Grimsby Town, who just beat Manchester United.
These black and white balls are ridiculously rare to see nowadays so its funny how iconic they still are>>150500267Its cope to explain why their teams used to suck ass before the 70s
>>150500267Back when sports had soul
>>150500843have to say, a couple years ago I watched a bunch of Pele games (not the normal highlights, regular games) and it was a farce: either those games were rigged for Pele or they simply did not bother to play ANY defence back then.
>>150504000It is more of the disparity in skill and preparation between the top and average players at the time. Nowadays the gap is much smaller. It's not that guys like Pelé wouldn't be able to play nowadays or Messi wouldn't be able to play at the time, it's just that things were different. Shittier pitches, heavier balls, different tactics, and all that.
