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Originally Posted by Juxone
However, making a tackle while touching any part of an opponent’s face mask is illegal and, when called, results in a penalty against the offending player and team.
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That is not true. Touching a facemask is never a foul. You have to grab or pull on it on some level. Even grabbing the helmet is not illegal, but grabbing the helmet opening is. Do not make this so broad that any contact with certain things are fouls.
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Originally Posted by Juxone
While I have never a tackle like the one shown --despite the insistence of the occasion coaches screaming-- it did make me ponder the rule. If for example, the defender's arm came between the top of the face mask and bottom of the face opening (across the eyes) would this be considered an inadvertent contact with the face mask? AGAIN the question was posed simply for discussion. Not second-guessing anyone since the question was posted as purely hypothetical.
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Well we have rules that address this. And it is not a penalty to touch a facemask, you have to grab it on some level to have a foul.
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Last edited by JRutledge; Tue Oct 20, 2020 at 01:17pm.
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