[quote]And a mile is only a mile but it sure is hard for a decathlete to break 5:00 despite being better trained for endurance races than any NFL guy.
This argument has run its course. You have realists on one hand and NFL fan-boys on the other and that's the way it will probably stay.
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exactly right -
decathlete's train for the mile and are built a bit more like endurance athletes and they still have trouble breaking 5 min/miles
BUT nfl players are machines!
yes machines at doing things that makes them good in the nfl -
that has NOTHING do to with aerobic endurance - repeat NOTHING!!!!