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10 hours ago, jimjimbo said:

I've been asking myself the same question for the last several years, right around Thanksgiving.....

 

Football teaches us humans the ability to circumnavigate the rules as much as possible and still be legal. Does anyone really understand holding? an incomplete pass? a completed pass? outside the (where is it) pocket? defensive pass interference? offensive pass interference? the degrees of (what is) concussion?

JJK

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4 minutes ago, JJkizak said:

 

. . . Does anyone really understand holding . . . the degrees of (what is) concussion?

JJK

 

I certainly don't.  My family is weary from hearing, "In my day . . ."  On offense, we would grab our own jerseys and use only our arms to block.  Actually touching the defensive player with your hands was "holding."  That's why I preferred playing linebacker; it was like wrestling with shoulder pads.

 

Today, holding calls are as subjective as figure skating judging.  "Holding" could be called on every play.

 

Regarding concussions, it's good to err on the side of caution.  When I signed up with the Boston University CTE study, they asked me how many concussions I'd had.  I estimated 6 from years of sailing, football, wrestling and life.  After hearing their definition of a "concussion" I said, "Then I've had 100."

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49 minutes ago, JL Sargent said:

 

That is a fact. Few plays are truely clean these days and inside holding is taught for the O line now.

 

I would love to see an explanation of holding by Neil Degrasse Tyson using Quantum Physics entanglement theory.

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7 minutes ago, derrickdj1 said:

Jim, Michigan should be healthier and do well.  Nebraska is playing terrible against Tennessee.  These bowl game will show if the Big Ten was has strong has the polls in the season.

Wolverine defense has to win this game.  FSU is fast, with a very, very good running back.  

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