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Big Hits of the Past: Targeting or Not? Your Be the Ref!

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Basically an offseason excuse to show a bunch of your favorite hits from years gone by.

I think this would be called targeting even though it isn't just because the hit was so incredibly violent...Sometimes I think force of the blow gets the penalty whether or not the letter of the rule was violated.

Clearly leads with the crown, but it is not head to head, and the concussion seems to come from the back of poor Joe Ferguson's head bouncing off the Silverdome Astroturf.

Targeting, 

or not?

Edited by MaybeACoordinator

I thought ‘targeting’ was just ‘tackling’ back then

That hit sent Joe all the way back to Buffalo, the turf probably did more damage than the hit itself. 

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the only acceptable answer. 

 

 

 

there are at least 3 pixels in this video

One in OP looked textbook facemask (not crown) to chest.  No targeting.

24 minutes ago, Gidnik said:

the only acceptable answer. 

 

I remember this shit plain as day lol. It also is a fun reminder of how Lou Holtz fucked up Ron Powlus prob the most unstoppable QB I ever saw play in highschool. Lol 

Also all of these hits would be tried for attempted murder today 

The Arrington hit on Aikman was pretty brutal from what I remember, Troy took another viscous shot on his chin his rookie year vs Phoenix. 

I was in the stands for that Coryatt hit when I was in grad school at TCU. As brutal as I ever recall. Think I remember hearing it broke the dudes jaw.

Also pretty sure everything that shows up in this thread would be a penalty today.

The Arrington hit on Aikman was pretty brutal from what I remember, Troy took another viscous shot on his chin his rookie year vs Phoenix. 

Didn’t he bend his face mask?

From the looks of it from these videos, some of the players came to with their dicks in their back pocket. 

5 hours ago, cabowabo said:

Ah…before we became a nation of pussies.  

Where did you play your college ball?

This was the hardest hit I ever saw and one of the worst calls ever. OU/Nebraska. The Nebraska guy get a 40 yard sprint and destroys Kelly Phelps. You can see his back bow out it shape of a helmet.  The worst call is they said it wasn't a fumble - forward progress had stopped. The forward progress part was correct.

Got to the 1:25 mark to start

 

I watched a Ronnie Lott highlight video once, and none of his hits on that video would be targeting today. Have to admit, that surprised me. Jack Tatum, on the other hand….

7 hours ago, cabowabo said:

Ah…before we became a nation of pussies.  

Back in the good old days, when retired NFL players drank a bottle of Drano to commit suicide at 46.

Fuck you, tough guy…

7 hours ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

 

I was there. DKR fucking exploded when Kindle hit that guy.

7 hours ago, Deej said:

 

I was there for this play too. Nelson knocked the shit out of Joel.

Should have been targeting when Mackovic got knocked the fuck out by his own player.

The play that effectively ended Marcus Dupree’s career:

Dehelmetates… love it. 

Edited by ImissWallyPryor

1 hour ago, AUinHsv said:

This was the hardest hit I ever saw and one of the worst calls ever. OU/Nebraska. The Nebraska guy get a 40 yard sprint and destroys Kelly Phelps. You can see his back bow out it shape of a helmet.  The worst call is they said it wasn't a fumble - forward progress had stopped. The forward progress part was correct.

Got to the 1:25 mark to start

 

Damn. Hardest hit I’ve ever seen was similar to this. The Colts were playing someone and a dude just absolutely killed the returner. It was so violent.

Props to anyone that knows what I’m talking about and can find it.

Remember when the NFL used to peddle a Hard Hits VHS video every off season there for a bit? 

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3 minutes ago, tfoolry said:

 

 

Middle school on kickoff team I kept knocking the shit out of the guy who was blocking me so on the last kickoff the game he kind of backpedaled ten yards and then came charging at me. My friend's dad told me I knocked the chinstrap buttons out of his helmet....some hillbilly team in Tennessee so it was probably just a cheapass Rawlings helmet. 

A few years later I would try to repeat that feat against a linebacker for CE King....did not go so well for me, but at least I held on to the ball, lol. 

The first game I played after i moved back to Texas was against Channelview, whose freshman QB was like a slow Tim Tebow. He ran an option keeper and I came flying over from LB and took him on head to head....He had about 40 pounds on me but he went down and stayed down. And so did I. I was stuck in deja vu, laying there in the grass smelling the refinery stench, thinking I remembered that same exact moment...or was it in my future? That would happen to me again and again when I'd crack my heaad badly, once in bicyle accident but mostly in football. Somebody told me once deja vu is caused by a hitch between what you take in with your senses and your brain's ability to process it, and that makes sense. (But I used to also get it without a violent crack to my dome.)

We played in a game like the one above -- little White kids against bigger Black kids in junior high -- and that happened to our star RB. That was the first severe concussion I was ever around. Our RB was just addled out of his mind on the sidelines for most of the second half. Looking back, I am surprised they didn't put him back in the game; today, he would have been hospitalized.   

32 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Back in the good old days, when retired NFL players drank a bottle of Drano to commit suicide at 46.

Fuck you, tough guy…

Pretty sure it was antifreeze but point taken.

Speaking of Tony Brackens, have a friend who swears that he saw him at some little rodeo or something several years ago, that Brackens was doing team roping.  I don't think the friend would lie, but it was just an odd-as-hell thing to hear.

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Speaking of Tony Brackens, have a friend who swears that he saw him at some little rodeo or something several years ago, that Brackens was doing team roping.  I don't think the friend would lie, but it was just an odd-as-hell thing to hear.

Didn't he grow up on a farm in East Texas?

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