[SamAdams76]

Joe Gibbs has class - in the early 80's when the Redskins where kicking butts big time - more than once, Gibbs did a kneel-down or a punt to avoid running up the score on a defeated team. Class versus the classless.

That might have been so in the early 1980s but in 2002, the NFL changed their tie-breaking rules which basically means that a team taking a knee when they have opportunity to score more points may be screwing themselves out of home field advantage in the playoffs later on down the road.

But the bottom line is that there is really no such thing as "running up the score" in pro football. This isn't Little League where the inning is over after 7 runs If an NFL team doesn't want to have the score run up on them, they ought to suck it up and make some blocks.

[ThePythonicCow]

TD - dang

[winstonwolf33]

TOUCHDOWN!!

[Last Visible Dog]

That might have been so in the early 1980s but in 2002, the NFL changed their tie-breaking rules which basically means that a team taking a knee when they have opportunity to score more points may be screwing themselves out of home field advantage in the playoffs later on down the road.

I will give that point. Good point.

But the bottom line is that there is really no such thing as "running up the score" in pro football.

I do not agree - but your statement is not "incorrect" - there is value in class - if you are up by two or three scores late in the game, you gain nothing by running up more score - although this is a fine detail and very rarely an issue.

In all aspects of life - class is always valuable