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[nerd]

Just take away the helmets and shoulder pads.

make them all leather again. that will most likely stop guys from spearing people on the ground.

[RSE]

I wasn't the greatest football player, but one thing I always did well was tackle. I attribute that to playing no-pads pickup tackle football in the neighborhood, every day after school from age eight, and almost exclusively with kids bigger than me. There's no spearing when you don't have a helmet on; you learn to keep your head up and get it on his hip.

[RSE]

I'd be interested to know the incidence of concussions in high-level rugby.

That soccer players routinely are sent back on the field after having been concussed is a dirty secret of European soccer.

[DJCon57]

I think they could keep old school fans if they reintroduced the bump and run to make defense relevant again.

And, because the dback can stay closer to the receiver, I think it would reduce big hits on "defenseless" WRs because of less separation and more tackling closer in.

THANK YOU! I was saying this the other day to a buddy. Get rid of the fucking 5 yard illegal contact rule and make PIs a 15 yard penalty, not spot of foul.

There you go.