Maybe hockey, or boxing, or ultimate fighting.... Maybe if they say something that hurts the other team member’s feelings... /s
If the whistle has been blown, and an object is used to batter another player between plays then it should be up to the offended player to choose if he wants to press charges. You can’t hurt a player in full gear that much. However ripping off a helmet and striking another player in the head with it had the potential for serious injury. The other option should be suspending the player and the head coach for X number of games. The reason I add the head coach is to show the seriousness of the action to the whole team. In this case you can see the QB and the player scuffling on the ground. The player crossed the line when while the offensive lineman is lifting him off the QB he pulls the QB up by his face mask and rips the helmet off. The QB comes back into it to get his helmet back and the player reaches over and around the lineman to hit the QB with his helmet on top of the head. It was this re engagement after the separation that changes the incident into a possible crime. They weren’t in game mode at this point. The other Brown player that knocks the QB down from behind at this point could also face battery charges as well. After the whistle, and after the game coaches should be telling their players that it’s time to reset your mind and get ready for the next play or game. Also the head to head hit that left a player bleeding from his ear, that’s the kind of trauma you see in severe auto accidents or explosion survivors. Way to much kinetic force. This launching into someones head, especially a receiver who’s catching or just completed a catch should be a minimum 6 game suspension, and if there’s ear bleeding make it indefinite. My game was baseball during junior high and I played catcher. I expected runners to try and knock me down as they came home if I had the ball or was crowding the baseline to slow them down, just part of the game. But I never has a player try to intentionally hit me with a bat or helmet. And the umpire threw one guy out of the game for throwing his helmet down after a strikeout and another guy for stepping out of the baseline to knock me down so I wouldn’t be up to throw the incoming ball to 3rd base. There are rules and there’s sportsmanship. bring back sportsmanship.