Fran Tarkenton
speaker
180 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3 Dec
Fran Tarkenton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But here's what happens.
If you're mobile, but you go down, you run out of bounds,
You fall down, and they protect you more today than they did in my time.
But I didn't take many hits because I either ran out of bounds or I fell down on the field, and they couldn't touch me.
So I missed five games in 18 years.
It's 10 yards, right?
Yeah, I wish they'd have done that in my time.
They didn't do that in my time.
Yeah, they protect the quarterback from that.
But the injuries in pro football have gotten out of control.
And I can't tell you how that happened.
But these guys are bigger than their bodies should be.
In my era, the offensive linemen were, the big ones were 230, 240.
Today they're 340, 350.
They're bigger than they're supposed to be.
Well, I worked all my life.
I worked in high school.
I worked in college.
In pro football, I was the only guy that had a job.
And I started building businesses at 25 years old because I –
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