Ah, sorry LaSalle, but no, they couldn't Even if LSU and Bama combined rosters, they couldn't beat the worst NFL team. That said, I wonder how an elite college team of today would stack up against an NFL team from the 70s. Not necessarily the Steelers because they were just plain nasty, but the conditioning of today's college athlete combined with the innovative offenses of the game makes me wonder if today's LSU team couldn't beat or at least hang with a bad NFL team from the 70s. Like the Saints. LSU would definitely have the speed advantage over them. And maybe even the power, if you look at the size of our O-line, compared to an NFL O-lne of that era.
Isn't that the truth, IMHO football is being ruined especially at the professional level. Have you actually watched some of these subjective calls about helmet to helmet when players have actually hit shoulder pads? Then they too kickoffs out of the game?
Someone mentioned the old college all-star exhibition earlier, and there's a key point to consider. The NFL player of those days was essentially a part-time employee. It wasn't nearly the year-round job it is these days. Of course, the same applies to the college football players of today compared to their 60's-70's counterparts. The pro players were still shaking off a lot of off-season rust when they went up against the All-Stars. That said, the Chicago College All-Star game was played from 1934-76 (no game in '74 due to a player strike). In 42 games, the College team went 9-31-2 (the pros were on a 12-game win streak when the game was discontinued). That's a .214 win percentage. BTW, the 1975 all-star roster included Saints WR Larry Burton, who burned the Steelers' Hall of Fame secondary for a long TD, and went on to become possibly the worst wide receiver in NFL history. Chicago College All-Star Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If a group of college stars can work together for a week and then go out and have a 1-in-5 chance of beating the defending world champs, I'd say the 2011 LSU Tigers' would have at least the same odds of beating, say, the Payton Manning-less Colts.
