[Ice]

I think most of these rules are absolute BS. Put the violence back in football.

[Shooter]

Tackling with the crown of your helmet has always been illegal. Personally, I think they should all quit whining and learn how to tackle right, but I digress.

[the dude]

The problem is Shooter, no one knows how to tackle even the officials.

Are you just suppose to get run over? So then they will make that illegal cause dudes will be getting knocked out from when there back of there head hits.

It was designed to be a violent game. The rules are not decreasing the violence. They are doing nothing but increasing scoring which at the end of the day these players are caring less and less about because they are getting guaranteed money. Game is not what it once was. Maybe I sound old, but how many games have we lost by a ridiculous pass interference or roughing the passer or a questionable hit….

Hue Jackson is a loser.

[Shooter]

I guess I look at it like this, way back in the day they played in lightly padded leather helmets. When they changed to the hard shell helmets, it was done for extra “protection” of the head. However, after a while (I’m putting it right around the beginning of the 70’s), players learned that those helmets could be used almost as weapons, and could assist greatly in laying someone out when tackling. Instead of moving your head to the side or keeping it straight up when tackling, more and more players began lowering them because the hard shells gave them far more confidence at avoiding head injuries(more on that in a second). They were illegal hits, but because the game was considered and actually celebrated for being very violent, they were rarely called as penalties. Over the course of the following 3 or so decades, tackling fundamentals began a steady decline, ultimately culminating with most players not only accepting but flat-out being taught that lowering your head and delivering a huge blow was the best way to tackle an opponent. If you took what were considered “elite” defenders from the 50’s and put them in a time machine to allow them to step on the field and see players of the 90’s, 2000’s and later making tackles, they’d laugh in their faces.

There’s a very good reason why you don’t/didn’t hear a lot about old time football players struggling with scrambled eggs for brains at the end of their lives (linemen not included). This is an issue that has been affecting players since right around the late 60’s late 70’s. Exactly the same time when the weaponizing of the helmet and the decline of tackling fundamentals began.

The re-reinforcement of what actually was and has been existing rules on proper tackling and not initiating helmet to helmet contact isn’t “pussyfying” the sport at all or removing any violence from it, it’s just trying to institute how to play the game the way it was meant to be played. You can still destroy your opponent with a rib-cracking, wind knocking, debilitating snot bubble inducing hit. Just don’t do it with your fucking head.

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