NFL Owners to Vote of Outlawing The “Tush Push”

It’s been illegal in the college game most of my life. If you want to watch rugby then watch rugby. We left that stuff behind with the forward pass, and football is a more exciting game for it.

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for more than 50 years.

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you think pushing and pulling offensive players has been legal in the NFL for 50 years?

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we’re going to outlaw what football was for more than 50 years. Pathetic

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Except this hasn’t been what football was for more than 50 years.

I understand the logic being used to have it banned, but agree that it is very weak because no one else has been able to mirror the success.

For those that don't know, there are specific rules for defenses & STs that do not allow them to use the same concept to move the offensive line back in the name of player safety. Because they are citing player safety, I believe the league will have to ban the move.

Teams just need to carry a couple of DT’s like this and be ready to deploy them.

pushing tushes is not entertaining football.

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Because one team has a qb that can squat a house and can’t be stopped on short yardage, we’re going to outlaw what football was for more than 50 years. Pathetic

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What is pathetic is your lack of football history.

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At the turn of the 20th century, America’s football gridirons were killing fields. The college game drew tens of thousands of spectators and rivaled professional baseball in fan appeal, but football in the early 1900s was lethally brutal—a grinding, bruising sport in which the forward pass was illegal and brute strength was required to move the ball. Players locked arms in mass formations and used their helmetless heads as battering rams. Gang tackles routinely buried ball carriers underneath a ton and a half of tangled humanity.

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With little protective equipment, players sustained gruesome injuries—wrenched spinal cords, crushed skulls and broken ribs that pierced their hearts. The Chicago Tribune reported that in 1904 alone, there were 18 football deaths and 159 serious injuries, mostly among prep school players. Obituaries of young pigskin players ran on a nearly weekly basis during the football season. The carnage appalled America. Newspaper editorials called on colleges and high schools to banish football outright. “The once athletic sport has degenerated into a contest that for brutality is little better than the gladiatorial combats in the arena in ancient Rome,” opined the Beaumont Express. The sport reached such a crisis that one of its biggest boosters—President Theodore Roosevelt—got involved.

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Football, however, was fatal, and even Roosevelt acknowledged it required reform if it was to be saved. With his son Theodore Jr. now playing for the Harvard freshman team, he had a paternal interest in reforming the game as well. Fresh from negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt sought to end violence on the football field as well as the battlefield. Using his “big stick,” the First Fan summoned the head coaches and representatives of the premier collegiate powers—Harvard, Yale and Princeton—to the White House on October 9, 1905. Roosevelt urged them to curb excessive violence and set an example of fair play for the rest of the country. The schools released a statement condemning brutality and pledging to keep the game clean.

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The game is always evolving. Always has & always will. Rules get changed & certain style of play gets regulated sometimes. Stop crying over a play that 5 years ago didn't even exist. If it gets outlawed so be it. 10 years from now no one will even remember it because it wasn't around long enough to be remembered.

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If you want to watch rugby then watch rugby. We left that stuff behind with the forward pass, and football is a more exciting game for it.

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It's why Teddy Roosevelt had to get involved to save the game. The forward pass came from that & so did the advancement of the game. I'm with you. Let the game progress forward & not backwards.

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The only problem I have with outlawing it is that the only team that has been successful with it is Philly.

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Qb sneak is one thing. Pushing or pulling by offense should be illegal.