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Old Sat Sep 10, 2016, 05:57pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie View Post
The defender is to not hit the player in the head or neck area and not to hit him with the crown of the helmet. He clearly did the former. He launched. To say this wasn't targeting is ridiculous.

Besides, hardness of this hit IS a consideration: read FORCEABLE in the rule. Hard isn't defined in the physical science world, thus, the word forceable was chosen. Effectively for our purposes, they mean the same thing.
I do not see a launch. I see a hard hit, but not a launch. And launching is not in itself a foul.

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