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Originally Posted by MadCityRef
Block, yes. Flatten? No.
Always get the safety fouls.
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Whether a player is "flattened" is a function of his own action as much as that of the blocking player's form. Contact that might be perfectly legal could, depending on how the opponent plays, result in a player's being flattened as much as a KO punch. You can't officiate based on how a player reacts to being hit, only on how they hit.
The rules of the game are designed to discourage many forms of cheap shot by allowing players
a chance to defend themselves against a hit; they don't guarantee that all players
will effectively so defend themselves.
In this case it seems the player of team B ran a loop around the kicker, but the kicker just didn't see him coming. He may very well have been focusing too far downfield, plus the helmets do restrict vision. As with bicycle & motorcycle helmets, there's a safety tradeoff there.
Robert