This past week, the team we were playing, had two, flagrant targeting penalties to the head. In both instances, you could see parts of both helmets shatter and 'stuff' explode." As the play-by-play team stated in amazement.
The announcers were none to pleased with the reckless play. In fact one announcer, a former GSC coach, said :"If this continues, football will be a thing of the past."
Is he right?
In the NFL - this; "Earlier this year, Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict was suspended for the rest of this season -- amounting to 12 regular season games and the playoffs -- following a helmet-to-helmet hit on a player on September 29."
Targeting now carries this penalty;
"Targeting, or illegal hits above the shoulders, would still result in a 15-yard penalty and ejection of the player who committed the foul. Players ejected in the second half would still be required to sit out the first half of the following game."
Is this too lenient? Should players be suspended for games rather than a half?
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The announcers were none to pleased with the reckless play. In fact one announcer, a former GSC coach, said :"If this continues, football will be a thing of the past."
Is he right?
In the NFL - this; "Earlier this year, Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict was suspended for the rest of this season -- amounting to 12 regular season games and the playoffs -- following a helmet-to-helmet hit on a player on September 29."
Targeting now carries this penalty;
"Targeting, or illegal hits above the shoulders, would still result in a 15-yard penalty and ejection of the player who committed the foul. Players ejected in the second half would still be required to sit out the first half of the following game."
Is this too lenient? Should players be suspended for games rather than a half?
.
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