SmashMouth

darksoul35

It keeps getting worse.

foreverfan

RENAME THE NFL THE PFL...




The GFF League is looking mighty good.












If she is the center, does anybody want to be the QB coach?

K Major

burningmetal

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.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.

jeanpierre

The Pussification of America is nearly complete...

Nikita Khrushchev was right - our foreign enemies will walk in without firing a shot...

SmashMouth

Rugby seems to do OK.

Rugby Saint II

Thanks for sharing Smash.

*Here's the deal with the low injuries to the head that cause concussion and neck injuries.........Rugby has tightened up their protocol tremendously for safety at the tackle. No more head hunting is allowed.

Too bad.....in the 70's and 80's I played with a nasty streak. Each team was allowed one sub. If you took out two players then you gained the advantage. I was down right border line dirty.........but it was legal at the time. I was an intimidator and enforcer. Of course I was also one of the smaller players early on. Although, that was then and this is now......


No tackle is allowed above the arm pit. EVER!
Every tackler must wrap with the shoulder to make a tackle. If he doesn't then it's a penalty.....do it twice and a red card is issued.
You can not lift a player off the ground to tackle him anymore.
You can not hit a player in the air that is jumping for the ball.
No more dump tackles. His shoulders shoulder never hit the ground before his hips do.
You can not grab a player by the jersey and sling him down. You must wrap him up with your shoulder and take him to the ground.


There is no first down in rugby......so a small territorial advantage doesn't really effect the game when a player falls forward the length of his body. We use the slide tackle a lot. Start the tackle at the navel and slide down and wrap his ankles. He's not going anywhere.

Goal line tackling is different.....and that is where good rugby players excel! We get low and tackle with our shoulder while driving the ball carrier up and back! The key is to tackle with your shoulder not your helmet!

This new tackle with your helmet tight to your shoulder pads introduced by the NFL is idiotic and is going to create more concussions!

Edit: If ya'll are looking for a good sport then women's rugby is awesome to watch and referee.

Srgt. Hulka

Soooo, when the ball carrier lowers his head just before he's tackled, is that an offensive penalty?

K Major

My thoughts as well. This is beginning to become a little too complicated for me to grasp. The "old school" league is long gone.

Forget this new rule for second ... I still don't know what the hell a catch is anymore in the NFL .