Is there any other sport where players headbutt each other?

MITCH BLATT

With players suffering from concussions and from permanent disability after retirement, the NFL made the right move to finally enforce their ban against helmet-to-helmet dirty hits. Naturally, some defensive players–who play on the boring side of the ball, I should point out, just to shame them–are whining about it and making up lies out of thin air. Brian Urlacher, who apparently isn’t good enough at linebacker to tackle anyone with his body, has taken the lead:

“It’s freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don’t understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can’t understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it’s a bunch of bull (crap). … We should just put flags on everybody. Let’s make it the NFFL.” (Chicago Tribune)

No, this move is against “big” hits. The NFL didn’t do themselves any favors by initially referring to their policies relating to “devastating” hits. The new possibility for suspensions is for helmet-to-helmet hits. Who gets the idea to put their head down and run into somebody at full speed and hit them head-to-head? Ironically, helmets have made the NFL less safe in some ways.

The videos of the hits from last weekend aren’t available on YouTube, but if you have watched ESPN at all this week, you must have seen them. Anyway, Jim Rome was also against the new regulations, so if Jim Rome was against them, they must have been a good idea.

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