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Originally Posted by dirtydiana73
BIG difference between hard hits and dirty hits
This.
Giving someone a good clean pop they'll remember is football and players seem to accept that. When you're making a conscious effort to actually injure someone though it's just more likely that you will, and this affects way how and where you might hit a person, encourage you to throw in a few more late hits, etc. I know that's not the old school of thinking but giving players incentives to ruin careers isn't needed to make football awesome.
Stop some dude in his backfield and I'll be plenty happy, you don't have to end his season or career too. It's like shooting a guy where an ass kicking would have done fine.