The WORST thing to ever happen to the NFL

[j-off-her-doll]

"You can't make forcible contact to the head or the neck area, even if the contact starts below the neck and rises up," NFL's VP of officiating Dean Blandino said on "NFL Total Access" Tuesday. "If there's force to that contact, it's a foul. Watch the initial contact, maybe around the shoulder, but it rides up into the neck area and brings the quarterback down with force."

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000285060/article/ahmad-brooks-fined-by-nfl-for-hit-on-drew-brees

If this is the correct interpretation of the rule, then just **** everything. Brooks made a great play, hit him chest-to-chest, and because Drew Brees falls down and Brooks' contact "rises up" (which is a faulty way to phrase it - because the contact didn't rise up; Brees just fell down) it's a penalty and a fine?

Hello flag football.

 

[Namor]

I would hate to play defense in the NFL.....those fines would get old,quick.

 

[LandShark13]

The worst thing to happen to the NFL is Roger Goodell.

 

[utahphinsfan]

The NFL is becoming more like the Nba.

>hiphop culture (oxymoron I know) is more & more prevalent
>You can't come anywhere near a "star" w/o a penalty being called

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

They need to just make it two hand tag on the QB. Expand the 'in the grasp' rule so that it's called any time a player has two hands on the quarterback. Would solve a lot of stupid penalties, IMO.

And with all the rules that now favor the offense, it's one that certainly favors the defense.