Scott Purdy: Since you started many years ago, there have been a lot of rule changes and . . . especially in football. How do you feel that that’s affected the game? Or as you see it, maybe as a trainer, do you feel like it’s caused a decrease in some of the . . .
Martin Broussard: Some of the injuries?
Purdy: Some of the dangers?
Broussard: Yeah. Well, you know, I wanted to believe that the rule changes have always been for the better. For instance now, Scott, the . . . you can’t block below the knee, you know. Of course we still have knee injuries. Of course we have knee injuries now, as you know, when there’s no contact made. Some say that the artificial turf has contributed to that. I don’t know whether it has or not. But, you know, you do have injuries, knee injuries now, when nobody receives a lick. But usually the rule changes that have been made to protect the athlete and to speed up the game and make the game more interesting. That, to me, has always been beneficial.
-- Martin Broussard, interviewed by Scott Purdy, 1992