Please be advised that when you're dealing wit any authority figure the authority figure is not into what's right. He's out for himself. The fact that the victim(Jennings) wasn't fined is after the fact and he misses out on his 1000 yard season.
Jennings did not have to fight back but he did have to get off of the guy who was looking for a fight and wouldn’t let go.
Oldest rule in contact sports:
action draws the refs attention
reaction draws the penalty
It’s not really the refs being out for themselves it’s just how things work when players out number refs, they can’t see everything.
But Nick Bosa WAS fined?
#MAGA
“Please be advised that when you’re dealing wit any authority figure the authority figure is not into what’s right. He’s out for himself.”
If you can figure out a way to stop the illegal violence and attack attitude in this sport and still have appeal to the public, you’d make a mint. This game is nothing more than violence as everything that is there to counter the actual success of a play is based on it. It’s what many sports have gone to, tried to erase, and either caused the failure of the sport to draw and reversed their actions. The NHL is a perfect example of another sport. These sports are gladiators, not players. And the tools they are given is what has generated the success of the game over the later years.
So when it gets to be too much for the game, the players are tossed to save face for the game by rule, not the officials. They are doing what they are told to make it look like there is control and it is a game and not the brutality it really is.
Example, something I have noticed lately:
Years ago in line play for the defence they were using a head slap, mostly just a belt to the head, to swim an offensive lineman aside. It was outlawed. Now watch the running backs with their “stiff arm” which has developed into nothing more than a punch to the head. But it improves offense and sells the popcorn and pennants.
Watching a game last week where a scuffle started in the back of the end zone between a receiver and a defensive back and another defensive back came in from behind using his body and knocked the offensive player about 10 feet. He joined the fight, not started it.
Back in 2023 the NFL stated it will enforce strong penalties for fighting. To enforce this message, the NFL outlined strict penalties for those who engage in altercations before or during a game. Players or club personnel involved in a fight may face ejection, suspension, and a “significant fine.” Very seldom is anyone ejected, fined, no one even talked to by the league office. It is ignored. And the defensive back that joined the fight in this case was instrumental in their winning as he later had an interception.
The fights sell. Pushing the rules and allowing their alternative results makes money. No harm, no foul, no losses of cash. Justifying taking actions for the fights is window dressing, not alternatives.
And this has leaked down into NCAA and National Federation games where the kids “play” this sport for recreation along with learning sportsmanship, teamwork, and fair play. That went out the window, didn’t it?
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It is a teachable moment. One that is very important for a post legal low trust society.
Jennings was the target. The actions were going to keep going in order for Jennings to not get his record. So in order to have some semblance of order, you remove the target.
Not because of rules, but because to keep him in risked a further altercation with men who can break the refs like a twig.
In a few years, you will see refs at the pro level get injured and the view be “Well, that zebra deserved it!”
You can not enforce rules in a society like ours is becoming. You can only curry favor.
Again, a very important lesson.