You've got your pads and your disks - the pads wear down. The semi-abrasive compound only lasts a certain amount of time until you're down to the steel plate.

All of those foundries were running at capacity in the beginning of a real upsurge in the semi-conductor cycle, so I would expect it to have some impact,

When they first handed me my helmet and pads, I jokingly asked, 'Do I have to wear these?' ... Without being up close to the game ? television is so far away ? is that you don't appreciate how physically fast and tough and strong and how much more they can impact the body because they have got shoulder pads and helmets. Ours is a different physically tough game.

There is a certain amount of disconnect here,

There is just a certain amount you can deal with.

Taking dogs in certain areas you have to watch the pads of their feet.