I have found the ideal game. Few head injuries, forward passes, fast, exciting and quite good for TV.
Its called Association Football.
You do know that soccer is already a highly popular high school sport, right?
I have found the ideal game. Few head injuries, forward passes, fast, exciting and quite good for TV.
Its called Association Football.
It sounds like some of these coaches are trying to Gridiron-ize rugby.Rugby has its own problems with concussion and unfortunately the non wrapping tackle is becoming too common. Some of the tackles now the tackler just flaps an arm round to try and tell the ref he is going to use an arm and then bang goes in with the shoulder.
We were taught to go low and wrap the player around the waist down to his knees and use his momentum to go to ground and then get on our feet to play for the ball but defence coaches now want a runner stopped dead and even knocked back because of the modern obsession with stopping at the gain line and preventing a pass out of the tackle. Nowadays with the massive size of players its probably the only way to go.
I think if Gridiron wants to cut down on concussion player size has to change make the 11 starting players stay on the field get rid of the endless timeouts and the 300+ pound behemoths will soon disappear and less damage will be caused.
I'm assuming you're saying this because I'm envisioning a wide-open game with a lot of broken field running. So, even if we have a very strong norm against the 'charge' where the offensive player runs into a defensive player who has established position, and similarly for 'obstruction' on the part of the defensive player, with this much running around, inevitably . . . inevitably, players will run into each other.You've envisioned a game that causes far, far more injuries than current football.