Below is a bit from NFL Players React To Crackdown on Illegal Hits
It seems they got it. Changing the rules and creating real penalties, in this case fines and suspensions, seems to have gotten the message to players. Make a note that not only did the players not get called for illegal hits, no player seemed to score a touchdown because they couldn't be tackled in a legal way.
In the case of youth ice hockey. Immediate game suspensions have to take place when head contact occurs. Significant consequences are needed to help teach the proper way to check and manage hits. It is within USA Hockey to in force the current rules and expand the punishment. Our kids safety is at risk. There is no need to wait. Look at how the NFL changed its culture.
HERE is a bit of the article:
With all of the day's 13 games complete, there were no cringe-inducing hits to replay on the highlight shows - nothing the likes of what James Harrison, Brandon Meriweather and Dunta Robinson delivered last weekend in a spate of vicious plays that brought about hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, along with repeated reminders that the league would be watching more closely from now on.
By sending out its various warnings - a memo from Commissioner Roger Goodell, a video showing can- and can't-dos, lists sent to coaches letting them know which players have multiple unnecessary roughness penalties - the NFL is looking for more certainty in a sport that has many shades of gray.
One bit of black and white: No players were penalized for illegal hits to the head in any of the 13 games, giving the league every reason to believe its message got through.
"I've seen a change in players' behavior in one week," NFL officiating chief Carl Johnson was quoted as telling Peter King on NBC's "Football Night in America."
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