[sumo] Re: [now definitely off-topic] Police To Charge Tokitsukaze Oyakata

[Kuramarujo]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 08:40 +0900, Joe Petrow wrote:

> In football, the following penalties, often done as a result of
> malice, result in a fifteen yard penalty, with the offending player
> staying in the game in most cases:
> 
> * Chop block
> * Piling on
> * Roughing the kicker (intentionally)
> * Roughing the passer (intentionally)
> * Twisting, turning, or pulling an opponent by the facemask 

	Most of these penalties are unintentional.  Facemasking does have the
rare intentional perpetrator.  The chop block is only illegal because
the NFL, and subsequently the NCAA & HS Federation, didn't want players
to encounter career ending injuries.  In the NFL, this equates to a loss
of revenue.  And as we all know, money drives everything.

K-jo, who was a master at the chop and crab blocks

P.S. You might also be thinking of the crack-back where a split man
would run back towards the ball and hit the defender from behind.

-- 
Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer
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