The NFL and Its Big Hit BS

The NFL has officially gone soft. You cannot hit anymore and at the moment everyone is wearing pink. I thought we were playing football not golf, if you want a non-contact sport.

However, according to Ray Anderson, the league's executive vice president of football operations. "We can't and won't tolerate what we saw Sunday," Anderson said Monday. "We've got to get the message to players that these devastating hits and head shots will be met with a very necessary higher standard of accountability. What we saw Sunday was disturbing," Anderson said. "We're talking about avoiding life-altering impacts."

The league and fans alike has put a premium on big hits and quarterback toughness. Yet, suprisingly as the NFL pushes its agenda to lengthen the season by two games and then pushes all these iniitiaves that promote player health come are coming to the forefront? The motivation behind suspensions for "vicious hits" is not player saftey it's greed! Keep players healthier for two more games and the playoffs and mamaximize the profit margains! There was a disproportionate amount of big hits that led to injury this weekend. Steelers linebacker James Harrison sidelined two Browns players, Josh Cribbs and Mohamed Massaquoi, with brutal hits. The Eagles' DeSean Jackson and the Falcons' Dunta Robinson were knocked out of the game with concussions after Johnson popped Jackson on a pass break-up.

Football is a brutal sport and you know that when you sign up to play. It takes away from the game with all these quite frankly "pussy" rules to regulate hitting. There are not many mandates in place for lineman who literally "bump heads" every day, every snap and every down of their life! Quarterbacks might as well be playing flag football unless your name is Vince Young or Michael Vick. I'm not saying I want Marshall Law in football, but let players play and penalize only those hits that are intentional, because the day is coming when a player is going to get hurt trying not to get fined or suspended.

I also believe a massive overhaul of helmet design should be considered to minimize concussions, players are bigger and stronger every year and the helmet changes little through the years. I don't care if everybody on the field looks like Don BeBe. The NFL needs a box of tampax for this last move because the issue is not the players it is greed, greed and greed. Let's look at the bigger picture people and remember its football not golf!

Slant Back Caddy Clayborne

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