I have NEVER heard this called before in my history of playing and watching football. Must be coincidence, but please...let me know what kind of penalty this is, b/c I think it's B.S.

I thought it was similar to tripping. I am surprised that they didn't talk more about this play, well, really I am not surprised about this.

That was probably the most frustrated I've been in a while. No replay, no explanation...nothing, just silence.

I can take holding, but seriously, leg whip.......really?

its a leg whip - its when you basically use your leg as a whip

Didnt see replay so cant comment on the valdity of the call

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What he said.

Trip - hold your leg out and trip. 10yd penalty.

Leg whip - swing your leg and make contact. 15yd personal foul.

Sweep the leg, johnny.

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its a leg whip - its when you basically use your leg as a whip

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Sounds like...uhhh...kicking?

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have NEVER heard this called before in my history of playing and watching football. Must be coincidence, but please...let me know what kind of penalty this is, b/c I think it's B.S.

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You don't watch much football do you?

You get beat and whip your legs around to try to trip them.

Did anybody with a dvr replay it and see if the call was legitimate? I didn't understand several things

1) couldn't believe it wasn't shown again considering it negated a 30 yard play. typically that penalty is always shown to validate it

2) after the penalty, it was 2nd and 14 (i think). so if it is a 15 yard penality, that means that our offensive lineman would have had to perform a leg whip 15 yards downfield after goodson had already reversed his field, was well past the line of scrimmage and was trailing the play

3) considering the one sided nature of the commentary, I would have figured those guys would have loved a chance to bash A&M for being classless after showing the hits that took McCoy out two years ago.

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I could not see the foul either..........

heh. i remember that call. i thought it was holding... usually the case after a long play like that.

leg whip.... i knew then it was all about tu.

we did get our ass kicked, but they made sure it was an ass kicking. no doubt.

Either you're very young or inexperienced.


"Aggies don't lie, cheat, or steal, nor do they tolerate those who do!" - Aggie Code of Honor

looked something like this

Without that call, A&M wins the game

Whatever it is, #74 isn't very good at it - penalized 15 yards and helped off the field.

i dvr'd it - it was a leg whip - probably doesn;t get called the other way if you know what i mean... frustrating part it was a meanless block as it was away from the play... poor coaching imo...

Ha. Ok, right after that was called, we googled it b/c we were all like "WTF?????" Some site gave us the steps and so we acted it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4rxjQQwLLI

yah yah, make fun if you want, but we were already on a downward spiral due to a bs "legwhip" call that hasn't been used since the 1940's...so if you watch it, don't be rude or snarky...it was just for fun. We made a first video, but sadly the 5'2" girl took down a 6'2" guy, so it wasn't allowed to be posted.

Legwhip is such a bullsh*t call....doesn't even exist. Throat slashing does though!!! How about we call those load and proud...jeez refs.

Just want to say, in the Baylor-Mizzou game earlier this season, #75 Jason Smith, the left tackle for Baylor, got called for a leg whip twice in the same game. Briles said after the game he'd never seen that called in his entire career.

I'm kinda glad to see it called somewhere else, then I know it's not just a Jason Smith thing.

Back in the day when manly men played football, the leg whip was a tool that offensive linemen used as a measure of last resort or as a method of retaliation. Usually swung from the ground and aimed anywhere from the teeth to the shin with the bullseye located in the middle, a size fourteen EE shoe with long cleats can give a hard charging defensive linemen something to think about if he is pinning his ears back on a pass rush or if he thinks he is going to get a free run at the ball if he throws the blocker off balance or to the ground.

It was outlawed and has went the way of the "head slap". The last really good leg whips I saw came from Conrad Dobler who played for the then St. Louis Cardinals and who scored several direct hits on John Dutton of the Dallas Cowboys upper thighs.

Leg whipping has became a lost art.

Leg whip - cannibals' dessert topping?

Poor call. 1) Doubt a person with 2 bad knees would do it 2) If he did it right it would be the defensive player that got hurt.....If thats the case Sherman can't even teach our players how to commit a penalty correctly.

Welcome to college football?

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I have NEVER heard this called before in my history of playing and watching football. Must be coincidence, but please...let me know what kind of penalty this is, b/c I think it's B.S.

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you don't watch much football i guess. Leg Whips are quite common.

Now I always liked the leg whip.

It was legal back when I played.

If you're going after a player on defense, say you go to your left and try to execute a crab block (are crab blocks still legal?) and he goes to the right, you are essentially down on all fours and in one motion you whip your body around to the right and whip the back side of your legs and feet into the defensive player. If you were moving fast enough and had the momentum, you could actually get your feet into the defensive player's head and face and it was even more effective. Gosh that was fun!

It was much more effective when we had 3/4" hard nylon cleats with aluminum tips. It was like kicking someone while you were down on the ground and had missed your block.

I have used the whip in handball matches when playing against an opponent who acts like he doesn't know how to get out of the way. The guy stands in the way of a tough shot, you go down to get it and as your hands are on the floor, give him a whip, hopefully to the head, and thereafter he may back off and give you a clear shot to the ball.
It was dangerous, just like the chop block (which I also took great pride in executing) and that's why they both were made illegal.

Back then, mid fifties to early/mid sixties, at the beginning it was even legal to grab a face mask (they were just coming into style and you were considered a p---y if you wore one). Being able to grab the mask legally only lasted about 3 weeks before the rule was changed in mid season.

There are several things that are legal now that were not back then, but I thought the advantage definitely shifted to the offense when the rule changed to allow an offensive player to use his hands in blocking/pushing.

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In this case, the penalty ended up being that the player got hurt. He was on the ground a long time with a knee injury. There were calls missed both ways in this game. A couple of obvious horse collars that weren't called on TAMU and holding against both offenses.

I have sen the call several times. Just couldn't see it when I re-ran it.