Do You Remember?



Do you remember when football was football? When the defense was allowed to basically punch a guy in the face as long as they weren't headhunting. This entire season which was both exciting and hard to swallow for me as a 49er fan. The one thing i kept thinking to myself was........REALLY? that was a foul? REALLY? that's a 15 yarder? This is very hard for me to do because as i type this i know that I sound like my father. The image above is clearly a penalty and should be flagged. This is the kind of penalty that John Madden dreams about. The one we have heard about for over a decade, you know the "BOOM, there's a helmet on the field-lets hope there isn't a head in that helmet, BOOM-fast acting tinactin, boom ACE is the place, Boom!" Sorry, years of Madden ringing in my head took over, back to my point.

This is not the type of penalty that bothers anyone. Earlier this year the NFL (no fun league) took away the 5 yard incidental face mask penalty and made any face mask penalty 15 yards and a potential drive changer. Similar to the one that happened this year in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl. When a player drags someone down by the face mask that's fine, flag the heck out of that little cheater, but if a guy touches a face mask while trying to bring a player down......come on..........are you serious? put the flag away. While I'm on the subject, can we stop with the running into a kicker or holder penalties? This is freaking football!!!!! stop already, really? you ran into the punter too hard? How about the you tackled the Quarterback too hard penalty?

When a defensive end is flying around the corner at 150 mph and he is a step late and still runs into the QB, DON'T THROW THE FLAG. Especially if he puts on an Academy Award winning performance with the flop. Don't reward that kind of behavior, if anything flag the QB for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Well I do love football and i personally feel that the Steelers were handed the super bowl, I do feel there could be some changes to make football - football again.


P.S. Love ya Dad
P.S.S. Ben, at least Tebow is going back to school right?