The NFL is almost like all of the sports combined into one. America's fascination with sports is similar to the Roman empires coliseum without murdering people Americans are civilized but do it in a uncivilized way
When this sport began, most of the players involved were veterans of World War 2 and the Korean War! Each of them still had a lot of fight left in them! That is why they had that savage mentality!
Most of these hits were legal at the time. But lately they have outlawed helmet to helmet hits. After watching this video, you might understand why many Americans don’t think much of soccer. I hate it when I see a soccer player get get hit lightly and roll around for five minutes as if he’s going to die and then get up and start playing. In American football the player always tries to get up to show how tough he is.
@@chetsenior7253 A lot of people say that.. but most rugby players will tell you NFL is a LOT harder hitting. Rugby tackles are limited to hits in the torso only. And the lack of pads means the hits are a lot softer. Pads make you feel invulnerable so players tend to hit a lot harder. Much like how more and sever injuries occurred in boxing after fighters started wearing gloves. Go watch any rugby players react to this video.
Yes and no. I have seen a fair share of NFL players milk or fake injuries then pop up after they either get a flag thrown or are sure they aren't going to get one. Fake injuries are used all the time to stop the clock during hurry up offenses or to to get a breather when a team is out of time outs. I have also seen soccer players lose teeth, have bones broken and get stomped on. But yes, soccer does tend to reward players who make a show of a foul because any real contact is probably going to be whistled and the players want to make sure the ref sees they were hit.
Many of these hits were legal within the last 15 years, but have since been made illegal. Believe it or not, that black-and-white clip you saw of the guy being pulled down by his facemask was a legal hit at the time.
@@toemblem nah, there are a lot of hits on here that would be considered a defenseless receiver now. Contact to the head of a QB. Sure, there's a lot that's legal still, but there's a good portion that isn't.
In my town they start full contact junior league at five years old. You can go past the boys and girls club and it looks like a bunch of piles of gear rolling around on the field. Some of the kids are so short that the knee length padded pants go half way to their feet. Oddly enough up to about ten or eleven years old some of the most brutal players are girls. More than one boy had to be helped off the field after my daughter leveled them.
That’s how Aaron Hernandez got CTE and had the worst looking deteriorated brain under autopsy that many experts had seen….it was the brain of a 65-70 year old man. He started playing tackle football at age 10 and his father was insane about masculinity which made him more reckless and physical. It’s really not something to boast about.
Years ago I went to a 49ers/Cowboys game. I saw a Cowboy player get hit so hard he flipped in the air, landed on his back, and was knocked out for a bit. It was one of the first plays of the game. Football is a complex game with a lot going on. It can be brutal, but it can also be very elegant. It’s worth it to learn more about it.
Shit happened to one of my high school receivers 💀💀 except it was him going up for a pass and dude hit his legs mid air and he flipped straight on his back and had to go take a lil time out for a half hour or so 🤣
He's probably still messing around with his little European calculator trying to convert all that into decilitres per cubit or something. Though a good approximate translation would be the big tackling men are about two metres tall and 120 kilos. They can run 40 metres in five seconds.
A good amount of those hits, specifically the ones while they are trying to catch the ball, would be illegal now. Any helmet to helmet while catching now would be illegal
@@TheOnlyNofu you can’t lead with the crown of the helmet which is what most people are referring to when you’re talking about nasty helmet to helmet contact
Last year a guy got hit so hard his heart stopped for a few seconds. He was hospitalized for weeks. It's a bit safer but it's still like running face first into an on average 300lb mountain of rage and muscle going roughly 20mph.
Damar Hamlin didn't even get hit hard it was just some routine shit and his heart just stopped. That was one of the scariest things I've ever seen. I thought I saw a man die for a little bit.
Damar wasn't even hit that hard Commotio Cortis does not care about the strength of the impact so much as when the impact happens. I.e any type of impact to the chest at the wrong time can cause that to happen.
It wasn't a hard hit, it was a generally routine hit. Most reasonable people attribute his medical condition with the vaccination they were shoving down everyone's throat.
If you could see the moments after these plays, many of those hit would pop right back up to keep playing. And fi you watch a collection of plays with actual serious injuries, the hits would appear relatively mild. A lot of the real injuries result from luck, how someone falls, or who falls on them, or how their body is stressed as a tangle of players goes down.
And, it really seems like the career ending hits are broken legs that got twisted the wrong way, aren't they? I mean after concussions which are pretty much expected with certain positions?
Yes, like when a quarterback plants a foot to throw and then gets hit and turned. People get that sort of injuries just walking around, much less playing NFL football. @@lindajohnson7675
@@lindajohnson7675Career ending injuries are very rare, even in football. When they do happen, it's usually reoccurring injuries more than a single serious one. People who suffer from things like multiple ACL injuries or too many serious concussions. Most of the others are older players nearing the end of their career anyways who suffers a serious injury and don't want to deal with the rehab and recovery that comes with returning to NFL form, so they retire. Occasionally a freak injury, like a few years ago when Ryan Shazier broke his back and was left partially paralyzed, will end a career early, but those are pretty rare. Of course, I'm not trying to downplay any of that, because it is terrible to see happen, but even things as serious as Nick Chubb's injury from this season are probably not career ending
Fun fact: A quite high number of those hits were in high school football games, so kids in the 14-18 year range. Some of these hits are now fouls, for example almost all helmet to helmet hits, but most are perfectly legal and seen in games all the time. After seeing this video you can understand why one of the primary reasons soccer is not highly regarded in the US is all the flopping and acting going on.
I was playing high school football, I was a linebacker and during a practice our running back was running through the A gap and I came up to tackle along with our strong safety. The 3 of us collided our safety had lowered his head right before we collided. After the play I get up stuck out my hand to help him up and he is looking straight up with eyes WIDE open saying he couldn’t feel his legs. They airlifted him to the hospital right from the field. Fortunately he had surgery and was able to walk again. Came back to school with a metal contraption that went from his shoulders up to his head and had screws securing his head so that it wouldn’t move. Needless to say that was the end of his sports for him. Just glad that he was able to walk again. It was one of the scariest things I ever saw playing sports.
Former highschool player, can confirm from my many lists of injuries and years of experience including two years of peewee, that most those hits were legal up until very recently, I wasn’t even a running back or anything that touched the ball but still got hit by guys so hard I couldn’t do anything involving contact for two weeks as I got hit illegally by a huge dude. Also got bodyslammed once legally somehow, sport is weird
Back in the early days before helmets and when it was only a college game, it was not unheard of to have a few fatalities during the year due to head trauma like cracked skulls. In 1905 I believe there where 18 fatalities in the season. At one time you were allowed and probably expected to punch the ball carrier in the head. We had to slowly make the game safer over the years so we barely have fatalities anymore.
I believe it's been 50 years or something around there since a death has occurred. But we still have plenty of other injuries. Which should be expected. These guys knew what they signed up for when they 1st put on the pads and helmet.
As I guy who ran a lot of special teams in college, it is truly a constant mine field and really kill or be killed every time. Sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes the bug! It is great dropping the hammer on someone, not so fun getting it dropped on you, and the thrill of it is never knowing which way it is going to go each time.
These clips were from NFL, college/university, high school, a little pee wee football, and CFL (Canadian Football League). College/university ball is a lot more popular and older than NFL. Some of the largest stadiums in the world, are college football stadiums.
Thank you.. I don’t know who created the video he reacted to, but they obviously didn’t know what they were editing when they labeled the video only NFL
You're right that pretty much all the hits involving the head are penalties, though they weren't always like that. If you hit someone in the body with your shoulders it's usually fair game though and you can hit them as hard you want. They've changed the rules a lot recently to emphasize player safety, like penalizing players more for hits to the head. Which is overall a good thing but that's actually sparked some controversy too, because now they sometimes call automatic penalties if someone's hand lightly touches someone in the head which is pretty much impossible to avoid sometimes. And you're definitely not allowed to pick someone up and body slam them, it looks cool so they put those in the video but yeah that's totally a penalty.
The body slams were legal up until recently as long as the player wasn't a quarterback and had the ball. It was legal even on quarterbacks if they were past the line of scrimmage and still in possession of the ball. Most of those hits likely didn't even result in injury or concussions. Turf is one of the biggest culprits in causing concussions back in the day. Normal tackles would cause the head to bounce off the turf and bam a concussion. Turf is also big in causing non-contact injuries. The most prevalent issue caused by big hits is getting the wind knocked out of you, which can result in disorientation as you were just in a car wreck and can't breath...
Honestly, a lot of people not familiar with the sport often find it to be slow-paced. There is a lot of planning/coordinating/getting into position in between plays, and the plays only last a few seconds. It's still pretty fun though. When I was in my early teens we would play pick up games without pads. I was pretty big as a kid, and literally got knocked unconscious by my friend's brother when he tackled me. Jumped at me shoulder-first and clocked me right in the jaw. He was maybe half my size.
There are some experts who claim that with better pads and protection the hits have gotten worse because it’s harder to get hurt when making a hit. You don’t get hurt as easy so you hit harder.
And now you know why we laugh at rugby players calling us weak because we wear pads in American Football lol. If they took hits like this in a game they would die without the pads.
Tbf, I'm an American and always made fun of football players for using pads. Still do. Only sport I actually have respect for is Muy Thai fighting since they just go in with no protection.
@@nono-ch8oy One is fighting, the other is a violent sport, you do see the difference right? As a former player I can assure you the pads reduce injuries, they dont stop them, and they dont give nearly as much protection as people think. They are plastic with padding beneath, thats it. A typical NFL hit is the equivalent of a 35 mph car crash.
I think the best way I've heard American Football explained is as a gladiatorial lifestyle. These people are trained from a young age, basically given a free ride through college, fight for a few big spots in the NFL, then their retirement is generally more for injury/physical reasons than age. When something breaks too hard or too often, they're done...and usually set for the rest of their lives monetarily. That said, it makes perfect sense why it's such a huge spectator sport. Not just seeing these tackles, but potentially seeing the end of someone's entire career in real time? That's what jousting and gladiator arenas existed for and why American Football exists today.
@@kylewoodowens4488they weren't always illegal though. In fact the power bomb tackle we see early on in the video the ref just marks the spot, because it was a **legal** tackle at the time. Compare that to a few years ago when a LB for the Dolphins picked up an Atlanta RB and ran with him for several yards before setting him back down on the ground to avoid getting a penalty for slamming or dropping him.
Another thing to keep in mind is that these hits are even more violent than they look - you're seeing a bird's eye view of the action and you can't really get a full grasp of how HUGE these dudes are or how fast they're going. An elite Linebacker is generally at least 1.9 meters tall, 115kg and can run 40 yards (36.5 meters) in under 5 seconds. The force involved is INSANE to see up close. Just standing near a full speed NFL tackle can sound like a damned car crash and has an almost physical punch to it, like standing near a really large drum. Absolutely bonkers sport when you think about it
when i was little my brother always played football and i remember going to one of his high school games, and one of his friends that played football with him since they were probably 6 was hit by his own teammate and broke his neck. he was paralyzed, now he can slightly walk but he still has a wheelchair. this sport is pretty crazy
accidents happen, the amount of paralyzed is very low considering how many play and how many hits happen both in practice and in games I played for 8yrs and never once saw a super bad injury. The worst was a broken forearm in 8th grade, and it wasn't all narly, just a little floppy like a skateboard accident.
That happened at my high school. We were playing the Lynwood High Knights. I don't know how the hit happened but the football player Knights was permanently paralyzed from the neck down. So sad. More so as he was only 17 years old.
Knockouts happen quite a bit in the NFL. There are 12-15 games per week and usually at least 1 player gets KOed or at least stumbles off of the field from a concussion each week. Concussions are very common.
There's a somewhat famous story I believe Art Donovan told about a player being checked on the sidelines after suffering a massive hit...the coach and the doc asked the guy, "What day is it?" and he confidently answered, "Harry Truman!"...then went back into the game. I think that was fairly normal for that time...
And don’t forget that statistically in any state that has amateur football there will be an average of ten players who receive career ending injuries and at least one player in each state will die from injuries.
The smack of their pads on a big hit, there is no sound on earth more brutal, exciting and beautiful all at the same time. Especially when you're at a game. Vast majority of the hits were perfectly legal. I can probably count on one hand how many hits were penalties. It's amazing how one big hit can shift the momentum from one team to the other so quickly.
Most are legit legal hits. That's the insane part. Basically you can't intentionally go helmet to helmet, hit someone waiting to receive the ball before they touch it (either on a punt or a pass), can't grab their face masks or back of their collars, can't trip them with your feet on purpose, can't kick them in any form, and absolutely cannot clothesline them like Night Train Lane used to do all the time, in fact he did it so much that they nicknamed it the Night Train Necktie. As for the hits on people running without the ball, so long as you aren't hitting them from behind them its all good and called a "block". If a player has already lost possession of the ball you also cannot lay an extra hit into them as they are considered to be defenseless, and that is also part of the not hitting someone waiting to receive the ball. They've gotten really reserved on hitting the Quarterbacks, basically its gone from everything but actual Murder is OK to if you breathe on them you get penalized.
Football was Americans deciding that the core problem with Gladitorial games was that we couldn't see it again next week. So we made it just soft enough not to kill. God I love this sport.
Not sure if you were told yet but one of the worst moves a player can get ejected from the game is called “targeting”, where the tackler hits the opponent players head with their own.
What’s makes these collisions even crazier is when you remember these guys are all 6-7 feet tall and most of them 250-300lbs it’s legit like getting hit by a refrigerator.
“Mass X Acceleration = Force kids remember that and this game will be as simple as breathing” - Coach Satterfield (my pop-Warner coach from 25 years ago). The game is definitely a teacher.
I don’t know if anyone else has said this, but quarterbacks used to be called “field generals” and the games were characterized as “battles,” so the terms were used to contextualize the violence.
Hey I’m enjoying your reactions! LOL You got the big idea about how big the hits in Tackle Football can be on the very first hit when you rewound to watch it again. You will see hits like this in most NFL Games.
@ 1:10 in their video, that was called a 'facemask'. Because of that hit in particular, the technique is now illegal, and has been for about 40 years. The whole time you're watching this, you're concerned about concussions, and bodily injury. The technology that goes into the helmets for these guys is quite impressive, and most of it is to prevent concussions. Something worth looking into. As far as bodily injuries go, I believe there are more severe injuries in the WWE than from professional NFL. To put a finer point on that, the WWE once had a match between Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar, in which Lesnar broke Angle's neck. Angle finished the match, and was immediately transported to a hospital, and treated for a cervical injury. They played it up on camera, but at the time, the man really had a broken neck. And all the helmets you see coming off their heads, there needs to be a fine for the helmet coming off, but not to the person that knocked it off. They're improperly secured on the player's head. There are two snaps on each side of the helmet. Those players have only one snapped.
You have to remember that these are some of the biggest, strongest, FASTEST athletes in the world. There are other sports where competitors may outclass the average NFL player in one or another of those categories, but NONE that beat them in all three. For reference to safety in the game, there has only been one on-field fatality in the history of the NFL: In 1971, during the closing minutes of the annual Thanksgiving Day game between the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears, Lions Wide Receiver Chuck Hughes suffered a fatal heart attack while jogging back to the huddle between plays. He was 28 years old.
Some of those clips were also high school kids hitting eachother that hard. You have 16-18 year olds hitting eachother with every ounce of violence in their body. Crazy
Yeah, but some of my favorite stories are by rookies who thought they were tough from college football - until they found out that it's a tradition in the NFL for all the veterans to hit the rookies as hard as possible. Like a rite of passage. Every rookie is just blown away by how HARD those guys can hit!
It’s crazy that a lot of those hits were legal at the time. I’m pretty sure most are illegal now. There are a lot more rules protecting players but it is still a very physical/dangerous sport. I’m happy my son had no desire to play it. One tackle that stands out in my mind was someone tackling a defensive player who intercepted the ball by grabbing his long hair. Apparently legal at the time but not now. He was pissed! I can’t imagine running at full speed and getting dragged down by my hair. I suppose better than some of those hits….
I used to work in a hotel that the NFL teams stayed at. Some of these guys are so massive that they would only allow 5 players and a coach of some kind on an elevator at once. I was 190 cm and 145 kgs and the were far larger than I was.
“Idk how physical it is.” Hits play, gets milliseconds in. Well that escalated quickly! 😂 Perfect introduction to American Football! I am glad many of these hits have been banned. Even still, it’s a brutal sport. It sometimes makes me nervous watching it especially after what happened last season with Tua from the Dolphins and Damar from the Bills. Both were horrifying to watch. Thankfully both are ok, at least from what we can see. It’s the stuff we can’t see that’s concerning. Great reaction!
A lot of these hits the helmet to helmet defenseless receivers crackback blocks are no longer legla and they focus on proper wrap tackling technique today but they still lay guys out😊
As a former strong safety and corner...yea it goes down 😅 the majority were legal hits at the time. Riles have changed since but as my coach used to say, fly to the ball with wreckless abandoned
NIce mix of US and Canadian high school, university, and professional football (similar to premiere, national, league one, etc European football levels). Each of the leagues have different rules. As players learned to hit harder, many leagues have created rules to keep placers safer.
With a lot of these hits where they hit the numbers, the damage to the head comes when they hit the ground and the head bounces. Also, a lot of these the QB left the WR to get crushed.
As many have stated, many of these hits you are seeing have since been made into penalties. But these are a compilation of years of hits. If you watch a game you may very well not see anything like this. That isn't to say that there are not hits on every play because there are. But what is missed in all of this is the amazing athleticism that you will see by some of the finest athletes on the planet. Grab a beer and tune into a London game and Enjoy!
Yes, American football really IS that fast and violent! Blocking and tackling are basic elements of the game, and so is intimidation. Each player tries to execute the blocks and tackles against opposing players with as much speed and violence as possible. 🇺🇸
The game has changed a lot. At one time our main objective was to draw blood from the opposing team..It's a brutal sport but you are padded up and these hits don't hurt as much as you would think.
For clarification about the rules: It’s illegal to tackle a guy by grabbing his facemask, but back in the 1960s or whatever it was allowed Helmet to helmet hits are always illegal. Any hit that targets the head/neck area is illegal Body slam/supplex tackles are usually called unnecessary roughness, but not always depending on the violence of the hit Any hit made with the shoulder, no matter how violent, is legal unless the player is obviously defenseless or too far away from the play to have an impact. So you can’t level someone for no reason. You can’t hit the quarterback after he’s already thrown the ball You can’t hit a receiver who’s about to catch a pass before the ball gets to him. This qualifies as a defenseless player since he’s fully exposed to the hit as he tries to catch the ball Back in the day football was a much more violent and defensive sport. Now the game has shifted, with stricter collision rules designed to help offenses thrive and put up lots of points, making for exciting shootout games but also a softer version of football
A lot of these hits are not legal anymore, especially the helmet to helmet hits are personal foul penalties. But that doesn’t stop the players from doing it because it looks cool lol
Worst football injury I've seen was on a televised game. Guy got hit twice at almost the same time from two opposite directions and broke the hell out of his leg. We're talking I literally saw his knee bend the wrong way.
Call it dirty or illegal, you can just put a highlight real of the old school 60's/70's Oakland Raiders together. They had some insane hits. Yep football was brutal back in the day, it's cleaned up a lot since for sure.
Bit late to your video but; in the United States we use to have a show called "Fight Science". Shows scientific proof of just how hard people hit in combat and various fighting styles. One such episode, you might be able to find on RU-vid or somewhere else online, involved American Football players and just how hard some of these hits actually are. It was a long time ago but if I remember correctly some of these full speed tackles are the equivalent of getting into a car crash. Another study shows that severity of these tackles, in one game, is the equivalent of getting into 62 car crashes.
“It was a few linguistically creative University of Oxford students in the 1880s who first distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”) and the name quickly spread beyond the campus.”
"I know it's very physical sport, but...lets see just how physical." "Okay, very physical...innsoccer, that will be red card and guy will be banned for like 6 months, so...yeah..."😂😂😂
Almost all of these hits would be illegal today. Several of the college clips showed the guys leading with their head, which is illegal now but also in several cases caused more injuring to the tackler and not the person being tackled.
Great reaction to something completely different from what you're familiar with. Seeing your face after the first hit was hilarious. You should check out: PBR Total Bull: 30 Most Wretched Wrecks of All Time. Nothing like watching a 200 lb man riding a 2,000 lb bull.
Most of the tackles and blocks are allowed, there are a few that are illegal. Some illegal tackles are Unnecessary roughness, roughing the passer, roughing the kicker, spearing with your helmet or intentionally ramming your helmet into another players helmet, chop blocking, and grabbing the face mask.
Just fyi, this is all football not just NFL. Pee Wee, High School, College and NFL clips. To answer your other question yes, some but not all of these hits would be illegal now. But there are a lot perfectly legal hits in these clips too.
Now you can understand why we mock soccer players rolling and flopping around on the ground like they’re injured, then get up and run down the pitch like nothing happened. It got so bad there were memes of Neymar rolling around the world. And God forbid you touch them near their faces! They fall to the ground like they’ve been shot!
Yep. They barely get hit and they're on the ground like a sniper took them out. I like soccer (grew up playing it as the fall sport as my school was too small for football) but the way many of players act while trying to get a penalty called is pretty ridiculous.
I played Football (American Football I guess) from age 7 all the way to my Sophomore year in College. I love the sport. LOVE IT! However, I will admit, there are times when I got hit very hard, or when I was in on a tackle and 4, 5, 6 other players hit all at the same time... you cannot play the game without getting injured in some way. The worst hit I ever took was my Sophomore year of High School. Went to a smallish High School, so we only had 33 players on our entire Varsity (that included Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors) Anyway, I played both Defense and Offense, and was on the Kickoff and punt team. I was the punter on this play, and I actually drove the ball pretty deep. Well, we were playing a team that would eventually go on to win the Illinois State Championship, and they had a 5'7", 190 pound Running Back who was built like a tank. He unfortunately was also their kick and punt returner... The ball drifted left, and the play was for me to kick it to the right. My bad. Since I was the only one who knew it went to the left, it was me and him... alone. We met, head to head at the sideline... THEIR sideline. As soon as my helmet hit his, I knew. I was KO'd for a few seconds, and I woke to the entire Sideline cheering and the visiting stands screaming. I got hammered. Absolutely destroyed. I was only 5'11", 140 pounds at the time. When I stood up, their Head Coach was standing in front of me and he said "Good hit, kiddo!" I looked at him, said "Thanks Coach", and then I walked directly to THEIR BENCH, and sat down!!! 5 seconds later, there was a crowd of their coaches and players around me, and I guess they could see it in my eyes that I was not ok. Immediately after realizing I was on the WRONG sideline, I stood up, and vomited right there. Sat back down, and their Head Coach started screaming for an ambulance. I went to the Hospital that night and had all of the tests done. Concussion. Season over. I will never forget the feeling the next 2 days... It felt like I was asleep and dreaming, but still awake enough to just barely recognize what was going on. I didn't play another sport until Spring that next year. Skipped an entire season of Wrestling because I felt weird for weeks. I didn't stop playing Football, though, until my Sophomore year in College when I suffered a serious knee injury in practice before the season.
A few suggestions: MLB longest homeruns or best infield/outfield throws NBA best slam dunks NHL biggest glass breaking moments. And for something different try biggest skateboard bails fails and head slams.
The experts will tell you that on a full field run like a kickoff return, the players will hit together with the force of two compact cars hitting head on at thirty miles per hour. (48.28 KPH) That’s why they have done so much to change what could and couldn’t be done on kickoff returns. For your next adventure you should watch one of the videos of bad weather games.
Nearly all of these hits were legal when they happened, but most of them would be illegal now. There's been a big focus on brain injuries in the sport the last 10 years.
What was it that Dick Butkus said.." 6'2"@ 280lbs at full run , is like hitting a brick wall at 30 mph...you know you've been hit.." The receiver or anyone catching the ball is going to be hit when they are not looking, that is worst part. Knowing that you have to catch the ball, when a freight train is heading straight at you!!
