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<blockquote data-quote="dressedcheeseside" data-source="post: 311072" data-attributes="member: 77"><p>No, you outlaw head hunting, which already is, but maybe could be taken a bit further. Maybe you make the DB's have to play the ball and not try to separate the receiver from the ball with vicious hits. </p><p></p><p>Football is a both skillful and brutal. But when the brutality of the sport is celebrated more so than the skill, something is wrong. A while back, ESPN had a Monday night segment called "Jacked Up." It featured the week's most bone crushing hits, it was a fan favorite. This is what I mean by celebrating, even capitalizing, on the games brutality. You'd never see a show called "Wrap Up" featuring the weeks best form tackles, would you? </p><p></p><p>It's not all ESPN's fault, it's what most fans crave, so they feed it to 'em. Now, it's all what kids on D want to do and/or be know for. Imo, the game won't be tarnished a bit to make efforts to protect players from excessive contact, especially when bodies are turned into missiles for the purpose of creating the biggest possible impact on a human target, many of them unsuspecting. Weirdly, some of the most vicious hits I've seen in the game have come on special teams: blockers getting a free shot on the blindside of would be tackler when the ball carrier reverses field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dressedcheeseside, post: 311072, member: 77"] No, you outlaw head hunting, which already is, but maybe could be taken a bit further. Maybe you make the DB's have to play the ball and not try to separate the receiver from the ball with vicious hits. Football is a both skillful and brutal. But when the brutality of the sport is celebrated more so than the skill, something is wrong. A while back, ESPN had a Monday night segment called "Jacked Up." It featured the week's most bone crushing hits, it was a fan favorite. This is what I mean by celebrating, even capitalizing, on the games brutality. You'd never see a show called "Wrap Up" featuring the weeks best form tackles, would you? It's not all ESPN's fault, it's what most fans crave, so they feed it to 'em. Now, it's all what kids on D want to do and/or be know for. Imo, the game won't be tarnished a bit to make efforts to protect players from excessive contact, especially when bodies are turned into missiles for the purpose of creating the biggest possible impact on a human target, many of them unsuspecting. Weirdly, some of the most vicious hits I've seen in the game have come on special teams: blockers getting a free shot on the blindside of would be tackler when the ball carrier reverses field. [/QUOTE]
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