League mulls suspension for LB Von Miller. What's your take?

[smuggler]

Yeah, the problem with those hits is that they are against the rules now. I like football, and reckless plays like this are going to destroy the game.

[Zool]

1974: Hits like this do not cause brain damage.

2014: Hits like this do cause brain damage.

[mraynrand]

1974: Great hit, man! That'll make that QB think twice next time he drops back to pass!

1994: NFL partners with DirectTV to launch NFL Sunday Ticket.

2014: Fine him and suspend him for a game.

FIFY

It figures you'd blame DirecTV for the pussification of football.

[mraynrand]

1974: Hits like this cause spine damage.

2014: Hits like this do cause spine damage and we're gonna stop it, even if it means killing the game.

FIFY

[mraynrand]

I vote to execute Vonn Miller. Send a message of intolerance.

[Zool]

FIFY

Repeated hits to and with the head cause CTE

[mraynrand]

Repeated hits to and with the head cause CTE

This just shows you care more about Miller than Smith. Hater.

[Freak Out]

Those kinds of hits were always cheap shots....it really doesn't mater if they were called or not. He could have held up and not drilled him directly in the spine.

I understand being competitive and the benefits the defense gets from sacking or hurrying the QB...but there is no need for that. I don't want to see Smith or anyone else paralyzed or killed because of a deliberate shot like that. It's dangerous enough out there already.

That said fine him but no suspension.

[Freak Out]

Derp.

[Maxie the Taxi]

+1

[smuggler]

Without putting to stop to hits like this, the lawyers really will destroy football.

[Patler]

1974:

Great hit, man! That'll make that QB think twice next time he drops back to pass!


2014:

Fine him and suspend him for a game.

1964: You let up and didn't drive through into the ground. He'll stand back there all day if you don't put a better hit on him.

[Fritz]

1974: Hits like this do not cause brain damage.

2014: Hits like this do cause brain damage.

1974: I think he took a big hit to the mellon!

2014: This hit causes brain damage.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Without putting to stop to hits like this, the lawyers really will destroy football.

It's happened before. This from Wikipedia:

Early [football] games appear to have had much in common with the traditional "mob football" played in England, especially on Shrove Tuesday when they used a lemon instead of a ball. The games...remained largely "mob" style games, with huge numbers of players attempting to advance the ball into a goal area, often by any means necessary. Rules were simple, violence and injury were common. The violence of these mob-style games led to widespread protests and a decision to abandon them. Yale, under pressure from the city of New Haven, banned the play of all forms of football in 1860, while Harvard followed suit in 1861.

[esoxx]

2024: Yes, I got your flag! In your face!!!