Big Hits of the Past: Targeting or Not? Your Be the Ref!

[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

Basically an offseason excuse to show a bunch of your favorite hits from years gone by.

I think this would be called targeting even though it isn't just because the hit was so incredibly violent...Sometimes I think force of the blow gets the penalty whether or not the letter of the rule was violated.

Clearly leads with the crown, but it is not head to head, and the concussion seems to come from the back of poor Joe Ferguson's head bouncing off the Silverdome Astroturf.

Targeting, 

or not?

Edited December 12, 2021 by MaybeACoordinator

[Dnaguy 12643]

[hornian 5296]

Not targeting. Rule didn’t exist at the time. 
 

Neither did seatbelt laws. 

[Underdog 29201]

Earl/Robertson. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

I thought ‘targeting’ was just ‘tackling’ back then

[Underdog 29201]

 

[deadshank 24654]

[Underdog 29201]

That hit sent Joe all the way back to Buffalo, the turf probably did more damage than the hit itself. 

[Gidnik 3496]

the only acceptable answer. 

 

[Gidnik 3496]

 

 

there are at least 3 pixels in this video

[Gidnik 3496]

also, 

 

[Gidnik 3496]

 

[WBT 20989]

One in OP looked textbook facemask (not crown) to chest.  No targeting.

[Coelenterate Fuccboi 13435]

Oh, can we do old movie/TV scenes and sexual assault next? Or evolve, 

[Sgt Hulk 14466]

24 minutes ago, Gidnik said:

the only acceptable answer. 

 

I remember this shit plain as day lol. It also is a fun reminder of how Lou Holtz fucked up Ron Powlus prob the most unstoppable QB I ever saw play in highschool. Lol 

[Sgt Hulk 14466]

Also all of these hits would be tried for attempted murder today 

[Bullneck 19543]

aggy loves this more than life itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jza8J3Hi_Jo

 

[Bullneck 19543]

 

[The Triple Lindy 56]

 

[cabowabo 4692]

Ah…before we became a nation of pussies.  

[Steelers Roll Left 1299]

 

[Deej 77852]

 

[Underdog 29201]

The Arrington hit on Aikman was pretty brutal from what I remember, Troy took another viscous shot on his chin his rookie year vs Phoenix. 

[tbone_ 14455]

I was in the stands for that Coryatt hit when I was in grad school at TCU. As brutal as I ever recall. Think I remember hearing it broke the dudes jaw.

[tbone_ 14455]

Also pretty sure everything that shows up in this thread would be a penalty today.

[Gidnik 3496]

 

[Jkwellborn 7043]

The Arrington hit on Aikman was pretty brutal from what I remember, Troy took another viscous shot on his chin his rookie year vs Phoenix. 

Didn’t he bend his face mask?

[Underdog 29201]

From the looks of it from these videos, some of the players came to with their dicks in their back pocket. 

[Bullneck 19543]

5 hours ago, cabowabo said:

Ah…before we became a nation of pussies.  

Where did you play your college ball?

[tfoolry 8353]

 

 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

19 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

Where did you play your college ball?

@cabowabo doesn’t even wear a seatbelt.

[Parliament 14599]

7 hours ago, Underdog said:

 

They need to bring that back.  

[AUinHsv 584]

This was the hardest hit I ever saw and one of the worst calls ever. OU/Nebraska. The Nebraska guy get a 40 yard sprint and destroys Kelly Phelps. You can see his back bow out it shape of a helmet.  The worst call is they said it wasn't a fumble - forward progress had stopped. The forward progress part was correct.

Got to the 1:25 mark to start

 

[Bullneck 19543]

^^^ Ouch.  

[Underdog 29201]

Miss those days.

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

I watched a Ronnie Lott highlight video once, and none of his hits on that video would be targeting today. Have to admit, that surprised me. Jack Tatum, on the other hand….

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

56 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

^^^ Ouch.  

…but clean. 

[Ignatius 4146]

7 hours ago, cabowabo said:

Ah…before we became a nation of pussies.  

Back in the good old days, when retired NFL players drank a bottle of Drano to commit suicide at 46.

Fuck you, tough guy…

[lilMAC25 4003]

7 hours ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

 

I was there. DKR fucking exploded when Kindle hit that guy.

7 hours ago, Deej said:

 

I was there for this play too. Nelson knocked the shit out of Joel.

[Deej 77852]

Should have been targeting when Mackovic got knocked the fuck out by his own player.

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

The play that effectively ended Marcus Dupree’s career:

Dehelmetates… love it. 

Edited December 12, 2021 by ImissWallyPryor

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

1 hour ago, AUinHsv said:

This was the hardest hit I ever saw and one of the worst calls ever. OU/Nebraska. The Nebraska guy get a 40 yard sprint and destroys Kelly Phelps. You can see his back bow out it shape of a helmet.  The worst call is they said it wasn't a fumble - forward progress had stopped. The forward progress part was correct.

Got to the 1:25 mark to start

 

Damn. Hardest hit I’ve ever seen was similar to this. The Colts were playing someone and a dude just absolutely killed the returner. It was so violent.

Props to anyone that knows what I’m talking about and can find it.

[tfoolry 8353]

 

 

[Underdog 29201]

Remember when the NFL used to peddle a Hard Hits VHS video every off season there for a bit? 

[Bullneck 19543]

5 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Remember when the NFL used to peddle a Hard Hits VHS video every off season there for a bit? 

Or ESPN's "Jacked Up"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdMFe-HKe5o

 

Edited December 12, 2021 by Bullneck

[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

3 minutes ago, tfoolry said:

 

 

Middle school on kickoff team I kept knocking the shit out of the guy who was blocking me so on the last kickoff the game he kind of backpedaled ten yards and then came charging at me. My friend's dad told me I knocked the chinstrap buttons out of his helmet....some hillbilly team in Tennessee so it was probably just a cheapass Rawlings helmet. 

A few years later I would try to repeat that feat against a linebacker for CE King....did not go so well for me, but at least I held on to the ball, lol. 

The first game I played after i moved back to Texas was against Channelview, whose freshman QB was like a slow Tim Tebow. He ran an option keeper and I came flying over from LB and took him on head to head....He had about 40 pounds on me but he went down and stayed down. And so did I. I was stuck in deja vu, laying there in the grass smelling the refinery stench, thinking I remembered that same exact moment...or was it in my future? That would happen to me again and again when I'd crack my heaad badly, once in bicyle accident but mostly in football. Somebody told me once deja vu is caused by a hitch between what you take in with your senses and your brain's ability to process it, and that makes sense. (But I used to also get it without a violent crack to my dome.)

We played in a game like the one above -- little White kids against bigger Black kids in junior high -- and that happened to our star RB. That was the first severe concussion I was ever around. Our RB was just addled out of his mind on the sidelines for most of the second half. Looking back, I am surprised they didn't put him back in the game; today, he would have been hospitalized.   

[jetsfan76 794]

Your be the ref is just going to slip by, eh? Awesome

[ElChupacabra 254]

32 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Back in the good old days, when retired NFL players drank a bottle of Drano to commit suicide at 46.

Fuck you, tough guy…

Pretty sure it was antifreeze but point taken.

[atomheartbevo 90660]

Speaking of Tony Brackens, have a friend who swears that he saw him at some little rodeo or something several years ago, that Brackens was doing team roping.  I don't think the friend would lie, but it was just an odd-as-hell thing to hear.

[Bullneck 19543]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Speaking of Tony Brackens, have a friend who swears that he saw him at some little rodeo or something several years ago, that Brackens was doing team roping.  I don't think the friend would lie, but it was just an odd-as-hell thing to hear.

Didn't he grow up on a farm in East Texas?