NFL Rule Changes
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:29 pmStarting with no more Wedgies....
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=t ... &type=lgns
1.)- No longer can huge players form three- or four-man wedges, sometimes linking hands or arms, then head upfield and knock down potential tacklers like so many bowling pins. Now wedges can consist of no more than two men together, with the next closest player beside them at least 2 yards away
2.)- Defenders knocked down by a blocker can’t lunge at a quarterback and drive a head or shoulder into the quarterback’s lower leg. They still can swipe at or wrap up a quarterback’s legs while on the ground.
3.)- The kicking team can’t have more than five players bunched together pursuing an onside kick.
4.) - A defensive player can’t hit a defenseless receiver in the head with a forearm or shoulder. It already was illegal to make helmet-to-helmet contact
5.)- An offensive player can’t make a blindside block with his helmet, shoulder or forearm to a defensive player’s head.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=t ... &type=lgns
1.)- No longer can huge players form three- or four-man wedges, sometimes linking hands or arms, then head upfield and knock down potential tacklers like so many bowling pins. Now wedges can consist of no more than two men together, with the next closest player beside them at least 2 yards away
2.)- Defenders knocked down by a blocker can’t lunge at a quarterback and drive a head or shoulder into the quarterback’s lower leg. They still can swipe at or wrap up a quarterback’s legs while on the ground.
3.)- The kicking team can’t have more than five players bunched together pursuing an onside kick.
4.) - A defensive player can’t hit a defenseless receiver in the head with a forearm or shoulder. It already was illegal to make helmet-to-helmet contact
5.)- An offensive player can’t make a blindside block with his helmet, shoulder or forearm to a defensive player’s head.
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I've been waiting for someone to pick up that ball and run with it. 