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15 posted on 12/24/2017 6:58:57 PM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)

28 posted on 12/24/2017 7:09:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

no fair catches? - BenLurkin

Kickoffs and punts.

I’m not impressed with that change, and IMHO they should keep the rules requiring facemasks - which only date back to 1960 or so, but are de rigeur for avoiding (inobviously, but . . .) spinal cord injuries.
Otherwise, to make the roughness of the game less limited you would go back to immediate post-WWII rules. Meaning, for one thing, that you had to stop a runner, not just touch him before his knee hits the ground. I was very young then, and could not tell you precisely how the rule was enforced - but I know runners would crawl forward even after being tackled.

72 posted on 12/25/2017 11:19:42 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)