I love it when sanity returns.

You have to protect QB's (when not running) There's only a handful of starting QB's on the planet, nobody want's to watch 2nd and 3rd string QB's playing this game, atleast I don't. ymmv

Last time I checked QBs have a helmet, pads and large contracts. They should be fair game like everyone else.

Tell us how you really feel....

Whoever thought pink shoes, ear rings, long braids, and "defenseless" would define professional football?

What next?

Is it legal to grab a handful of dreads and swing them to the ground?

I can't stand looking at dudes that have earrings, it instantly screams metrosexual girly boy! Earrings are for women!!!

If someone's earring or hairstyle is enough to ruin your day...your day sucks already. Sorry about that.

Fish on...

Todd

So that is what Merg has been up to...



I haven't watched football since high school, which has been more than just a few years. Seems like back then a guy used to get a pat on the back for laying down a hit like the one detailed above though. I thought that was kind of the goal?

Seems things have changed a bit.

Ruin my day? hardly..todd must have a earring....he does act like a little bish. lol

It used to be legal to tackle someone by grabbing their hair.
The way the NFL is now, it would likely draw a flag and a big fine.
Might considered a horse collar tackle as well.

its still legal stone, any hair protruding outside of the helmet becomes part of the uniform, in the NFL and NCAA...

funny part about that, you could get hurt far far worse by someone tackling you by your hair at 800 mph than you would by a horse collar tackle...

I forget which game but recently saw a nappy hair tackle and whilst I laughed my as.s off the ref thru a flag for horse collar.

I have an idea...why not build airbags into the helmets? Have sensors that will deploy an airbag around the players helmet at certain impact levels. It would cut down or eliminate concussions on the players....who's in on the IPO ?

it wont cut down anything... as said before, you do not need head contact with anything to get a concussion... if you are moving 5 mph and get hit right in the stomach and stopped, your brain inside your your skull will still be moving at that momentum, then when your head stops moving forward, your brain smacks the inside of your skull, causing a concussion...

blatent helmet to helmet sh!t is bad, but you cant take everything out of tackling... things ARE going to happen, regardless of what you do to try to stop it...

With all the helmets that come flying off those empty eggs I see no benefit.

I didn't know you were a neurologist.

What a bunch of dummies.
I mean fer chrissakes!

Just drill holes in the sides of their heads (use those ear ring holes for a template) and mount cans of whipped cream that expel their contents directly into the "defenseless" player's skull upon a "vicious" impact. No space in head = no brain bouncing around in there.

Recharge each player's helmet as necessary (or desired).

Added benefit.....

When a team loses......you could say.....













......wait for it.....
















THEY GOT WHIPPED!!!



edit: I just had to add........

Snork! 9.23