01-15-2016, 08:41 PM
It beggars belief that a league run and owned by lawyers have managed to write a set of rules that say one thing while the officials and administrators interpret it as another.
The rule is exceptionally clear on what is a foul: non-incidental contact with the crown of your helmet on an opposing player outside the tackle box. However, since they brought the rule in, they kept talking about this concept of "lining up" the other player. Given that has always been their intent and their interpretation, it does make me wonder how a team of lawyers were unable to write it into the rulebook.
Unless, of course, they wanted to be seen to be doing something without actually doing anything.
The rule is exceptionally clear on what is a foul: non-incidental contact with the crown of your helmet on an opposing player outside the tackle box. However, since they brought the rule in, they kept talking about this concept of "lining up" the other player. Given that has always been their intent and their interpretation, it does make me wonder how a team of lawyers were unable to write it into the rulebook.
Unless, of course, they wanted to be seen to be doing something without actually doing anything.
