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Re:I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroye... by melq on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:16PM (#16293852)
>people are not trying to spear other people head first (there are rules explicitly banning this as well as any intentional helmet to helmet contact)

Really? Because someone did just that in the AFC championship a week ago in order to (successfully) take out Rob Gronkowski.

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Re:I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroye... by Thriptic on Friday February 02, 2018 @05:33PM (#16294749)
It happens and some people are malicious, but he was penalized and it was considered a dirty hit. The point is that is the only hit of it's type that was seen during the game which contained thousands of collisions.
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Re:I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroye... by poooogles on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:30PM (#16294347)
>...take out Rob Gronkowski.

Context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwALEoMUHrk.

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