Will the ‘Tush Push’ Be Banned in the N.F.L.?

Jumping on the scrimmage line to block a kick. Standing in the score zone to get a field goal. Openly slapping an opponent in the head.

Once upon a time, you could see the NFL players do all those things. And they were legal. But over time, they have all prohibited the leg.

And perhaps the “push of Tush” or the “fraternal thrust” will be joined to them, the perfect movement for the champion of the Super Bowl Philadelphia Eagles.

In that play, which is executed when the team only needs one patio or less, the offensive rulers of the Eagles become close together, break the ball and push forward. The field marshal, Jalen hurts, keeps the ball and throws forward, while other great players push him from behind.

The work has been remarkable for Eagles in recent seasons, almost always winning the patio more or less necessary.

Now a complaint has filed a leg with the league asking him to prohibit the game. Althegh, the Complaints team was not revealed, several media sources have identified it as the Green Bay Packers.

The president of the Packers, Mark Murphy, said on the team’s website: “There is no skill involved, and it is almost an automatic first time in the playing plays or less.”

But the Eagles coach, Nick Sirianni, and others say that the movement to ban the thrust has the smell of sour grapes. It is not that other teams avoid the play because it is unfair; They cannot execute it as well as the Eagles.

“We work very hard on that play,” Sirianni said in NBC. “I know that the teams are trying, and I know that if they succeed in that they would use it.”

Others have suggested that the work could be dangerous. But a study of the League found no conclusive evidence that the work captivated a higher risk of injuries.

It was thought that with the retirement of Jason Kelce, the center of the Eagles, which was a key factor in the work, the Eagles would not be so successful with the impulse. But only without him, the team continued to press and push all its way to the championship this season.

These are some of the other plays that you can no longer see on a NFL grill.

The loose ball

Sometimes, a single play causes a rule change.

In a 1978 game against the San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders lost 6 points with 10 remaining seconds. They were 14 yards from the final area.

Field Marshal Ken Stablr was about to be fired and the ball came out of his hands, advancing. Another player pushed him a little more and then Dave Casper kicked him in the annotation zone and fell on him, scoring a touchdown and winning the game for the Raiders. The work became known as the Holy Roller.

A new rule was adopted after the season: in a loose ball in the last two minutes, only the clumsy player can advance in the ball.

Jumping on the line

Blocking a field goal can prevent the opposing team from scoring 3 points. So why not prove what is necessary to do it?

In the 2010, some athletics players, particularly in the Seattle Seahawks, tried to jump on the scrimmage line to get a better opportunity to block that kick. Sometimes they successfully. But in 2017 the NFL stopped it in most cases. (On that occasion, it was the Eagles who proposed the change of rule).

Goals congregation, NFL style

How about making a really tall guy stay right in goal posts and tried to eliminate the field goal attempt? Yes, that is the proven leg. And that is prohibited the leg.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Kansas City chiefs parked a 6 -foot and 10 -year -old player named Morris Stribus right in front of the goal posts and tried to block the kicks of less trajectory. It worked from time to time.

But the NFL soon modified its rules to prohibit, borrowing a basketball term, “there is a defensive player who goes out to defect a kick, since it passes over the crossbar of a goal post.”

Dangerous plays

Whatever you think about these plays, few would argue that it would be a good idea if the players could still slap each EA after the head (prohibited in 1977), appearing on the back of the shoulder pads (the so -called height necklace, Banhehel (prohibited in 1996).

The NFL has a reputation of being heavy and slow to change. But almost every year, some rules are adjusted, and the game is, a hope, improved.

If prohibiting the fraternal thrust would be an improvement depends on its view of the vision and its interpretation of the complexities and nuances of the voluminous NFL rules book.

Or maybe about whether or not you are a fan of the Eagles.