Quote:<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Anybody watch the last few minutes of the Steelers - Ravens game...

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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I guess the ruling was made that the football is marked where the guy's helmet comes off.

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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Yet, the the Ravens' player applied the old fashioned can-opener tackle and the refs didn't call him for unnecessary roughness and/or targeting.

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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Again, the Ravens' player applied the can-opener tackle which specifically targets the head and has been around forever.

 

 

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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">There is no such thing as a can opener tackle and "targeting" is only NCAA terminology. Somebody told me in another thread plays can be blown dead if a player has an equipment malfunction such as the helmet coming off, but I have always seen the play continue when that happens. Can someone explain what happened to Jungle Cat?

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