NFL is going to suspend for leading with helmet

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NFL is going to suspend for leading with helmet

posted by Draft Day Suit
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 10:58pm PDT

A (usually) humorous look at sports written by popular parent bloggers and some of their friends.

The NFL has had it with your shenanigans. This is your final warning. NO MORE LEADING WITH YOUR HELMETS.

After the brutality of week 5 – James Harrison knocked out two Browns, Dunta Robinson lead with his head and knocked himself out and he took DeSean Jackson out with him, and Brian Meriweather knocked the crap out of Todd Heap – the NFL decided that this cannot go on. It is too dangerous.

Brandon-Meriweather_hits_Heap_helmet

The word on the street (and by “the street” I mean ESPN) is that tomorrow the NFL will announce that effective immediately, even first-time offenders face suspension for “devastating hits” and “head shots,” or so says Ray Anderson, the league’s executive vice president of football operations.

I believe him.

James-Harrison-helmet-brutal-hit

No warning. You do it once – you are out.

I like hard hitting games as much as the next guy, but at some point you are just endangering people’s skulls for no reason.

Concussions are bad, but it can be even worse. A defensive tackle from Rutgers was paralyzed from the neck down this weekend while making a tackle of a kick-off return. Eric LeGrand may never walk again, making DeSean Jackson and Dunta Robinson’s concussions look like paper cuts.

Good call NFL.

[photos: Dwyer, Srackoic]

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Football, Sports, SportsPLUS, NFL, Rules of the Game, Men's Sports

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Phoenix5

Great rule to implement. If you have to hit head to head to make a tackle you shouldn't be playing in the NFL. There is plenty of chest and torso to hit to make tackles. I accidently hit a QB head to head and it knocked her out. Definitely the scariest moment for me on the field.

Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 8:09pm PDT

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