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

[Jeanne Hedge]

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:28:45 -0400
>From: Kuramarujo <klemmerj at webtrek.com>  
>Subject: Re: [sumo] Re: [now definitely off-topic] Police To Charge Tokitsukaze Oyakata  
>To: Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>
>
>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

As the daughter and sister of guys who played offensive line in college, I have to disagree that those are unintentional, at least to a certain extent. According to them, on the line the rule is "do whatever you can get away with," and that most certainly does include chop blocks, piling on, face masking (and holding, biting, kicking, gouging, punching (especially to the throat)). I'm not saying these things are *always* done intentionally, but rather that what's actually called is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg of what's actually going on and not called or seen.


Regards,
Jeanne Hedge