Old Tiger
03-15-2013, 10:39 AM
*** -- if this proposed rule goes through they will be radically changing the game. One of the great things to watch is seeing a RB bull his way through a defender or group of defenders. NFL football would become too mambi-pambi with this kind of ****** rule in place.
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/N...d=rsssportsnfl
New NFL rule would bar helmet hits by the rusher
A rule proposed by the NFL’s competition committee would make it a foul for a ball carrier to smash into a defender with the crown of his helmet in open space.
It would be the first rule in American football history limiting a runner’s contact with a defender, outside of egregious acts such as punching a tackler, or grabbing his facemask while stiff-arming.
Owners vote next Wednesday at the league’s annual meeting in Phoenix on whether to approve this and five other proposed new rules, announced Thursday by the competition committee on a conference call with NFL writers.
Sure to be the most controversial of the six proposed changes is the runner-contact rule. It reads:
“It is a foul if a runner or tackler initiates forcible contact by delivering a blow with the top crown of his helmet against an opponent when both players are clearly outside of the tackle box. Incidental contact by the helmet of a runner or tackler against an opponent shall not be a foul.”
Emmit Smith is spot on in saying the NFL is losing its mind.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/03/14/e...lost-its-mind/
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/N...d=rsssportsnfl
New NFL rule would bar helmet hits by the rusher
A rule proposed by the NFL’s competition committee would make it a foul for a ball carrier to smash into a defender with the crown of his helmet in open space.
It would be the first rule in American football history limiting a runner’s contact with a defender, outside of egregious acts such as punching a tackler, or grabbing his facemask while stiff-arming.
Owners vote next Wednesday at the league’s annual meeting in Phoenix on whether to approve this and five other proposed new rules, announced Thursday by the competition committee on a conference call with NFL writers.
Sure to be the most controversial of the six proposed changes is the runner-contact rule. It reads:
“It is a foul if a runner or tackler initiates forcible contact by delivering a blow with the top crown of his helmet against an opponent when both players are clearly outside of the tackle box. Incidental contact by the helmet of a runner or tackler against an opponent shall not be a foul.”
Emmit Smith is spot on in saying the NFL is losing its mind.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/03/14/e...lost-its-mind/