The first few pages of this thread are a good explanation as to how some of the oldies on the forum got so many posts.
The rest of it, with the football players with dirt in their wounds, is just fucking stupid. It seems like America was once really, really gritty, and eight out of nine guys died from medical treatment (which was based on Donald Duck physics) and the ninth was a tough son of a gun, and now it's just full of ***gy cake decorators who cry if they get frosting on their apron.
You don't need to be dumb to strength train, you just need to accept the fact that some things are scary and some things hurt and that's that.