I always hear people say that the new rule with the crown section was added to prevent someone from breaking their neck. Does anyone know how many people have broken their necks by leading with the crown of their helmet? Genuinely curious because it doesn't make sense that the same stipulations are not enforced for offensive players.

The new rule was added to prevent so many concussions and brain injuries caused by CTE. What are you talking about???

Read the game posts. Everyone keeps talking about breaking your own neck. What are you reading?

trueaggie2782 said:

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I always hear people say that the new rule with the crown section was added to prevent someone from breaking their neck. Does anyone know how many people have broken their necks by leading with the crown of their helmet? Genuinely curious because it doesn't make sense that the same stipulations are not enforced for offensive players.

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Leading with the crown of the head can cause compression fractures in cervical vertebrae, or displacement. It was common enough for the rule.

In old rules (back when I was in high school ~15 years ago), this was a separate rule called spearing and could be called against both offense and defense. They combined that with targeting and because of that, it's pretty much only called on defensive players now.

Ejecting needs to go.

TxAgPreacher said:

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Ejecting needs to go.

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Needs a tiered system like soccer. Red card/ejection only if truly egregious, otherwise a warning 1st.

Trigon Jin said:

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TxAgPreacher said:

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Ejecting needs to go.

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Needs a tiered system like soccer. Red card/ejection only if truly egregious, otherwise a warning 1st.

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Not a bad idea. The first one on GA was egregious, but the second one was incidental

Me! Saw one live…they carried the kid out on a stretcher
straight to the hospital…. kid never took another step in his life, living in the chair for a big hit. Could never feed hisself… use the bathroom, take a shower. That needs to be removed from football.

Tergdor said:

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trueaggie2782 said:

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I always hear people say that the new rule with the crown section was added to prevent someone from breaking their neck. Does anyone know how many people have broken their necks by leading with the crown of their helmet? Genuinely curious because it doesn't make sense that the same stipulations are not enforced for offensive players.

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Leading with the crown of the head can cause compression fractures in cervical vertebrae, or displacement. It was common enough for the rule.

In old rules (back when I was in high school ~15 years ago), this was a separate rule called spearing and could be called against both offense and defense. They combined that with targeting and because of that, it's pretty much only called on defensive players now.

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An axial load to the top of the head may result in a burst fracture of C1, called a Jefferson fracture. That can be life ending. And I agree with the above - compression fractures and even extension/distraction injuries (such as a hangman's fracture) can occur by leading with the crown.

The Uga targeting was horse shyte. Running back was going full speed into the defender. Both used the crown and both hit the helmet vs other players shoulder pad

How is it any less or more dangerous for the defense than the offense player to do it ?

Was not this initially sold to us as a launch or a strike at a defenseless player ?

The enforcement of this rule has become ludicrous and arbitrary at times. So much so that I think it's unfair to DQ the player it's called on.

They should drop the rule or at least drop the DQ component.

And it goes without saying that tonight the refs were weaponizing the rule to help resuscitate the sips offense from uga domination