Ask Times NFL writer Sam Farmer, and he will answer as many as he can online and in the Sunday editions of the newspaper throughout the season. Gerald Hill, Palm SpringsFarmer: There are as many pranks as there are players in the league, and maybe more. ::Why are shoulder pads players wear now so much smaller than they used to be? Old pictures show players with pads halfway to the tops of their heads but now the pads seem barely there. “It used to be in the NFL uniform code that you had to wear all the hip pads and tailbone pads,” Walsh said.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 17, 2019 12:56 UTC