You’re short sighted on your focus. Sure the crowd @ the game goes crazy, until the player doesn’t get up, now you have to stop the game for 10 minutes, everybody has that kind of queasy feeling you get in your gut as you internalize the fact that a young man was just potentially seriously injured for your entertainment, and of course if they were injured they’re going to miss however many games, which reduces the entertainment value of all those games.
It’s 5 seconds of happy followed by minutes of unhappy and possibly hours of lower quality games. Which means those targeted middle hits fall wind up in the serious negative on the entertainment value spectrum. So they’re against the rules.
Funny how you suddenly need to run to insults. Nothing like ad hominems to show you know the facts don’t support you. Sports ARE entertainment. They exist SOLELY to entertain. The rules are there to INCREASE the entertainment value. Period. And you know that, which is why you ran to insults.
I would agree with you there. I have seen that in motor racing. A spectacular crash is eye candy. If you learn the driver or bystander died in it that queasy awful feeling hits you hard.