Quote Originally Posted by Mark_Ross View Post
A different era, those far, far off days....
Crowds - unfathomably huge.
Player wages - remarkably small.

If he'd been around in the 21st century TL would've been a millionaire many times over.
Good post. It was more of a working class game then. With many sports people today, they've been giving deity-type status - at the end of the day they are just talented at their jobs and people like to pay a lot of money to watch them.