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1 hour ago, linux said:

Reading up on how dangerous the flying wedge was enough to outlaw it I honestly thought it was about tossing a player over the line of scrimmage, probably the original reason why the Leach toss is banned as well you can not interlock your own teammates with your hands. Originally you could not even touch them  but then came the Bush push, but a flying wedge from players pushing a train seems as dangerous.

I've always wanted to see a goal line play where a big guy or two has some padding on his back, and the RB takes the handoff and takes about two steps up the big guys' backs and launches like he was coming off a two meter board.

I think it was Arkysaw who had a guy they used like that, called him the "High Diver" or some such - he was damned tough to stop. I also recall a game, I think it was 0U, where Shipley took a short snap on a fake punt and broad/high-jumped face-first about six yards for a 1st down.

Oh, yeah... RIP Pirate.

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I've always wanted to see a goal line play where a big guy or two has some padding on his back, and the RB takes the handoff and takes about two steps up the big guys' backs and launches like he was coming off a two meter board.
I think it was Arkysaw who had a guy they used like that, called him the "High Diver" or some such - he was damned tough to stop. I also recall a game, I think it was 0U, where Shipley took a short snap on a fake punt and broad/high-jumped face-first about six yards for a 1st down.
Oh, yeah... RIP Pirate.

You can jump off your own players can you? I know the defense can’t. Never seen the offense try. That would make a gnarly red zone fade route.
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2 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


You can jump off your own players can you? I know the defense can’t. Never seen the offense try. That would make a gnarly red zone fade route.

I haven't looked at all 7,588 rules, and you're prolly right, but I think it's not a foul to step on your own player but not allowed to be "launched" by that player. It would be pretty tough to call a foul in a "tush-push" type of crowd, where it appears to be fine for the QB or RB to more or less leap on top of his OL guys and be pushed/carried for the score. 

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3 hours ago, po elvis said:

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but the defense can get their own little man who they throw into the offensive little man while he is in the air. 

Why, they'd look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, tossin' out their own midget... don't matter how stumpy.

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I don't know if this has been mentioned, but the defense can get their own little man who they throw into the offensive little man while he is in the air. 

Like hitting a bullet with a bullet, man. But I like the way you think, midget projectile-wise.
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19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Like hitting a bullet with a bullet, man. But I like the way you think, midget projectile-wise.

Cheerleaders toss people all the time.  Get them to help work out a play where two squat defensive linemen in triple option formation hurtle some little dude at qb through space.  Think of it as an aerial qb sneak. Win.

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6 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

Maybe a double-amputee, midget dwarf, very-early enrollee. Imagine how far you could toss him. Are stripper's monkeys eligible?

I wouldn’t bang it.

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7 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

Maybe a double-amputee, midget dwarf, very-early enrollee. Imagine how far you could toss him. Are stripper's monkeys eligible?

No but he can be a bag in baseball.

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10 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

Cheerleaders toss people all the time.  Get them to help work out a play where two squat defensive linemen in triple option formation hurtle some little dude at qb through space.  Think of it as an aerial qb sneak. Win.

You have a good point. Why does it have to be a little person? Or even a guy?  Get one of those little bitty 90-lb cheerleaders and throw her over the pile with the ball. She doesn’t even need pads. The way the guy cheerleaders toss those little girls, I’m sure a P5 tight end could toss her all the way through the goal posts. All she has to do is break the plane. The net behind the goalposts could catch her. And she has longer arms to hold the ball in flight. 

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On 4/16/2025 at 11:41 AM, Wiler77 said:

That's fucking hilarious if true.

But I think you'd have 3 big problems:

1. Ball security.  Little arms and little hands would have trouble securing the ball.

2. Play would take too long to develop.  Picking up a 100lb human with the right grip after they take the handoff and then launching them over the line has got to take longer than a regular play.

3. I don't think you'd actually get enough momentum to get them over the top of the pile unless you did it like a hammer throw.  But then the ball security thing comes into play.

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