When football was created over 100 years ago it was intended to be a violent, hard hitting, and a fun game to watch. Over the last decade or so the NFL has done everything in their power to take away everything great about the game. Not many people agree with all the rule changes they’ve made, but they continue to make them year after year. I’ve grown up watching and playing football my entire life. I hate how the commissioners are, in my opinion, ruining the greatest game ever created. Some of my least favorite rule changes are; the QB’s protection, the no celebration rule, and the brand new helmet to helmet rule.
Quarter backs in the NFL might as well play in shorts and a t-shirt, because of the all the rule that protect them. Here are two of the rules directly of the NFL website, “No defensive player who has an unrestricted path to the quarterback may hit him flagrantly in the area of the knee(s) or below when approaching in any direction “and “Officials are to blow the play dead as soon as the quarterback is clearly in the grasp and control of any tackler”. When anyone is taught to tackle the first times they play football, their taught to tackle by wrapping up the person with the ball around the legs and knees, so they can’t run. This rule pretty much throws all of that right out the window. The second rule is just as dumb, just because the QB is wrapped up doesn’t mean he can’t break away or fumble it. They need to let the play go until it’s finished. Another rule is you can’t hit the quarter back after he has thrown the ball, this rule would be ok, if they enforced it right. More and more every game I watch as defenders are getting unsportsmanlike penalties for hitting the QB late. When they show the replay it was maybe a half second after the QB threw it, and would be nearly impossible for a 300 pound man to stop on an instant like that. Or the defender would barley touch the QB and they’ll flop on the ground because they know the penalty will be...