You must not have seen the same video I did, or you’re too busy waving your “Terrible Towel.” The defender clearly launched himself at the player head first. Left his feet to do so.
Played a little football in the day. It’s not figure skating, but it’s not a blood sport. Then again, both the Steelers and the Ravens have enough thugs to go around the league twice.
There’s no way to launch yourself other than head first, when the human body goes into flight like that it leads with the head. The question is was he aiming for the head. And we really can’t tell because video doesn’t come with thought captions. What he can see is that until McGahee scrunched up to brace for the hit it wasn’t going to be helmet to helmet, that doesn’t mean that wasn’t Clark’s intent, but if it was he would have missed.