| burningmetal |
03-29-2018 09:45 AM |
Re: Goodbye Tackle Football?
This is why, at any level of football, there has to be a replay system for anything involving head contact (though high school football wouldn't be able to afford such a system).
The fact that the helmet to helmet foul has existed for years and, by the NFL' own admission, helmet to helmet contact is going UP, and significantly, at that, goes to show that these rules have never and WILL never make the game safer.
A replay should be used only to determine (as best as possible) whether there was intent or not. All other head contact should not be a foul, because it's just not realistic that rules will change the nature of a violent sport. You have to decide if you are going to play tackle football (to the OP's point) or flag football. If you choose to play tackle football, there is no such thing as a safe game, and rules will not cause people to change their natural reactions in the heat of split second decisions, in a game that moves at a hundred miles an hour.
The rules will only change how much officials will be allowed to decide games. This has been a growing problem over the years, as it is. It's ridiculous.
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