Thursday, April 15, 2010

No Eye Black Messages, Taunting, or Wedge blocking


For the people who don't know what wedge blocking is, I'll enlighten you all. On a kickoff return, you have to try to block for the man receiving the ball, so coaches in the past would put offensive linemen and come together and "wedge" block for the returner. This rule is no longer in affect due to injury and severe concussions. I 100% agree with this rule because I know what its like to have a concussion and its no walk in the park. Those are full grown men running full speed at each other, probably the most dangerous part of football as far as getting hurt. Its a good rule and should have been enforced a long time ago, okay now thats out of the way, heres my real beef. No eye black messages and no taunting? Why?!? What is the big deal? The reason these players are freaks of nature is because the have huge chips on their shoulders and wants everyone to know that they are the best and nobody will stop them. I mean I know thats what I would want if I were a football coach. Classy guy, respectful, hard worker, and just a nasty, cocky football player who knows he's the best, because he'll play like the best. There were never curses or profanities on the eye black, if anything it was area codes, bible scriptures or some saying someone told them many years ago that is significant to them. Its an ego booster, so why not have your stud football player not play to his potential because he cant have his favorite message on his eye paint? I played football and we're all head cases, we need to have any kind of edge that we can overcome the other opponent. This makes a player whole, and makes them feel invincible. Its like saying they cant get tattoos anymore, it supports individuality and makes it less stressful on Saturday. When you see yourself in the mirror and see what you have on your eye paint, you don't say, time to play football, you say, time to have some fun. This doesn't hurt anybody or effect any team. More and more rules are popping up for college football and more is being taken away from these players, let them have what they want and just let these head cases play awesome football.

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