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To: notdownwidems

Interestingly, an illegal block from behind used to be called clipping, but I haven’t heard that term used in years. Since the refs now announce the penalties over a mic, perhaps the terminology had to be dumbed down.


77 posted on 01/01/2024 8:12:35 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Actually clipping is a foul still. Clipping is an illegal block below the waist from behind. That rule changes around 15 years ago when the thought was a 15 yard fouls for a block above the waist was excessive. Agra ago, ineligible receiver down field was a five yard penalty AND loss of down. Thank God they got rid of that nasty little enforcement


85 posted on 01/01/2024 8:35:20 PM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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