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To: USS Alaska

The difference between the Steelers run and the Patriots run is that the league changed the rules in the ‘70’s to hinder the Steelers (Mel Blount Rule), but changed the rules in the 2000’s to help the Patriots (Brady Rule).


41 posted on 01/18/2019 1:40:11 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

but changed the rules in the 2000’s to help the Patriots (Brady Rule).


The big change was anti-Patriots, by the Colts GM who was on the rules committee (Contact with a receiver was now to be called even if it didn’t create an advantage). Messed up a big part of the game.

The Brady rule was the lunging from the ground at the knees of the QB. You probably mean the Carson Palmer rule which was in place before that.


52 posted on 01/18/2019 6:24:12 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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