3 thoughts on “NCAA Weighing Ban On Keegan Brewer’s Incredible Trick Punt Return”
Sorry to break in with an off topic question, but I’m not sure when a better topic will come along.
In baseball, it has always bothered me that a pitcher can intentionally hit a batter. While it is officially against the rules, it does happen that pitchers regularly throw “brushbacks” or even “beanballs” intended to cause injury. While I don’t think a batter has been killed outright by a pitch since Ray Chapman in 1920, and batting helmets have continually been improved; brain injury in football is now widely acknowledged as a workplace safety concern, and surely concussions from getting hit by a pitch are similarly dangerous. Even if they are not, it is inevitable that another player will get killed sooner or later. No doubt, public outcry and investigations will follow. But why wait for a foreseeable tragedy? Why not reduce a pitcher’s incentive to strike a batter by changing the rules so that a “hit by pitch” results in the pitcher being immediately ejected from the game, even if the hit is deemed unintentional? The only problem that immediately comes to mind is that batters may take advantage of the new rule to intentionally get hit in order to remove a good pitcher early in a game. Problems like that could be dealt with as they are now by umpires, i.e. the umpire rules a hit was intentionally caused by the batter means the pitcher gets to stay and the ball is ruled a strike. Any thoughts?
Hmmm, how to put this… oh I know:
FUCK those cocksuckers!
First, they don’t want kickoffs returned. Then they don’t want sacks unless the linemen can finish it off by hovering in midair over the QB. Now this.
And do they lower ticket prices as the game gets lamer? Like fun they do.
I kinda agree with the ban. Or they change the rule to require the punter to also take a knee when he makes the catch. It’s an inappropriate use of the rules, much like those videos of those kid QBs to say ” wait, give me the ball” from the center, who gives him the ball, and the as everyone looks around he takes off for the end zone.
It was nicely executed, though. And it’s nice to see a power team go down like that.
Sorry to break in with an off topic question, but I’m not sure when a better topic will come along.
In baseball, it has always bothered me that a pitcher can intentionally hit a batter. While it is officially against the rules, it does happen that pitchers regularly throw “brushbacks” or even “beanballs” intended to cause injury. While I don’t think a batter has been killed outright by a pitch since Ray Chapman in 1920, and batting helmets have continually been improved; brain injury in football is now widely acknowledged as a workplace safety concern, and surely concussions from getting hit by a pitch are similarly dangerous. Even if they are not, it is inevitable that another player will get killed sooner or later. No doubt, public outcry and investigations will follow. But why wait for a foreseeable tragedy? Why not reduce a pitcher’s incentive to strike a batter by changing the rules so that a “hit by pitch” results in the pitcher being immediately ejected from the game, even if the hit is deemed unintentional? The only problem that immediately comes to mind is that batters may take advantage of the new rule to intentionally get hit in order to remove a good pitcher early in a game. Problems like that could be dealt with as they are now by umpires, i.e. the umpire rules a hit was intentionally caused by the batter means the pitcher gets to stay and the ball is ruled a strike. Any thoughts?
Hmmm, how to put this… oh I know:
FUCK those cocksuckers!
First, they don’t want kickoffs returned. Then they don’t want sacks unless the linemen can finish it off by hovering in midair over the QB. Now this.
And do they lower ticket prices as the game gets lamer? Like fun they do.
I kinda agree with the ban. Or they change the rule to require the punter to also take a knee when he makes the catch. It’s an inappropriate use of the rules, much like those videos of those kid QBs to say ” wait, give me the ball” from the center, who gives him the ball, and the as everyone looks around he takes off for the end zone.
It was nicely executed, though. And it’s nice to see a power team go down like that.