Turning the helmet by grasping any of those openings is an expensive personal foul. All Chop Blocks are illegal , including in the following situations: Forward pass plays and kicking plays: A1 chops a defensive player while the defensive player is physically engaged above the waist by the blocking attempt of A2. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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Table of Contents. A fumble that only touches the hair of a player with a foot out of bounds is a dead ball. The casebook already has a distinction that a player can be down by contact if a defender only touches the hair of a ball carrier on the ground.
It is not down by contact. Embed from Getty Images. If they make it illegal everyone is going to be wearing their hair down the middle of their back and make it very difficult to NOT pull it during tackles another way for the whiners to get free penalties, NO WAY, your hair is long, it just makes you easier to tackle.
A few more of these stories and we will see a lot fewer players with long dreadlocks. And by the way simplify catches and get rid of the BS roughing tackles. Anther reason for me to stop watching the NFL. A large portion of the hair is not their own and is woven in so most players could have hair down to their knees if the rule was changed.
NFL football is getting to be unwatchable. The hair should be contained in the helmet or in a pocket inside the jersey. This is dumb and would only create the opportunity for more penalties. Maybe it would not be a fashion statement if they had to keep it tucked inside their jersey. They now have a rule requiring their jersey to be tucked in. Not hair pulling, what is next? No foul smelling breath. Keep it under the helmet. October 19, at pm Wrong. They only debate is whether this is a minor issue or a non-issue.
Just wait until a QB gets his hair pulled. The NFL will go into melt down. I see the end for me and football on the horizon. Time change and people do too. As to the NFL? Wait …. Lets just go ahead and make every play illegal that could hurt someone already.
Im still waiting for them to put in a rule to help teams with bad o lines. I wouldnt be surprised if they did something.
Leave the non-rule as is. Cut it before the start of the season, grow it as long as you want after the season. How hard is that? Everyone bashes Goodell, but Al Riveron needs to go!! Also Michel lowers his helmet and knocks out and concusses and hurts a player and no penalty. Goodell is being paid off by Kraft.
Only thing that kept Belicheat and Brady from being suspended for a year was Goodell. This is a step in the direction of saying the refs are not considered a part of the field when trucked over. Yellow flags will be everywhere soon. The NFL has become a Mr. Potatohead of new rules every weeks…rewind 20 years and leave it Alone!
Ridiculous what is being done to this game! This is dumb to even consider. They need to outlaw fake hair extensions like they outlawed tear away jerseys…Imagine a tackler being left with a handful of fake hair while the runner is still going AND a 15 yard penalty.
I would assume the penalty would be applied like the horse collar tackle, not the inadvertent hair pulling. The Chris Ivory tackle was a perfect example. He was pulled backwards just like a horse collar tackle and that is an injury risk. You can grab a jersey, but not the horse collar. The hair is an extension of the uniform. This league is reactionary and stupid. I say in encourage the hell out of it, they want it that long than let them deal with replacing their extensions.
If they want to wear the long hair and can also do away with the name on the back of the uniform. Can read them anyway. This can be done by pushing, pulling or by many other means. Good tacklers try to keep offensive players from gaining any more yards after their initial contact.
This rule is explained in the section below. The NFL and hair length Rules regarding hair length Prior to , the NFL did not have any rules regarding player hair length; some players had long hair, and there were no rules regulating tackles or blocks involving hair pulling. In , the NFL addressed players being tackled by their hair after Dolphins running back Ricky Williams was dragged down twice in one game by the dreadlocks in his long hair.
A blocking penalty consists of a loss of 10 yards and the repeat of the down. Defensive holding brings with it a 5-yard penalty and a first down for the offense. If excessive use of contact is penalized, it will result in a yard personal-foul penalty.
Ultimately, the use of penalties is determined by the referee staff, and is oftentimes later debated by both the teams and the viewers. Additionally if a player while tackling continues to hold and pull the hair of the ball carrier after the play is whistled dead by the referee, they will be penalized with a personal foul.
This hair data was obtained by reviewing the internet rosters from the official websites of all 32 professional football teams to determine which players had long hair that would be affected by the Ricky Rule If photographs were found on the official team websites, they were used in the determination of hair length.
When official team websites did not include photographs of the players, internet searches were conducted to find the most up-to-date photograph available for each player. The average age of players with long hair slightly older than the average age of all players, as shown in Table 4. The data were collected for the entire NFL as well as the American and National football conferences.
While at some point it may have been the younger players that were the ones sporting longhaired styles, the data show that the average age of football players wearing long hair is one year older than the average of the entire population. This is true when looking at the entire NFL or individual conferences.
The trend of long-manned players has a current presence in the NFL. Albeit, the choice style of long hair shows considerable preference, it is evident that dreadlocks are a favored style making up the vast majority of longhaired players.
Approximately three out of four players with long hair wear them in dreadlocks, as illustrated in Figure 2. There are multiple techniques to achieve dreadlock hairstyle; however, the desired result is the same, where the hair is formed into rope-like strands.
Bundles of hair, typically the width of a standard number two pencil, are locked using a knotting technique. The result is a dreadlock consisting of multiple knots or locks. Others styles present are include loose, straight, wavy, and curly hairstyles. Few players have long hair that reaches past the low back or above the shoulders. Overall, two trends were observed: most players with long manes typically have their hair a past the shoulders, and b in dreadlocks.
Hair type and style is important for the engineering analysis because of hair strength. One hypothesis is that the dreadlocks will weaken the hair because knots create stress points in each strand, making it safer than other types of long hair.
In another hypothesis, dreadlocks may be less safe because a player may grab and pull more individual hairs because of the dreadlocks, which would cause an increase in the maximum forces transferred to the scalp. In some cases, players with long hair have segments of human or synthetic hair attached to their real hair to gain this long and full hairstyle, usually with dreadlocks.
This would be important as the hair will likely break more easily at the attachment point, reducing the occurrence of injuries. In this study, there was no way to make this determination based on the individual player photographs. Hair length as a function of player position The detailed analysis of the 2, players listed on the NFL roster as of July 1, was also evaluated by player position to see if any trends would emerge.
These statistics are important since some positions have an increased likelihood of being a ball carrier, and thus are more likely to be tackled legally, via the Ricky Rule while wearing long hair. For example, a running back is more likely than a lineman to carry the ball, and be exposed to a tackle. The roster information was divided up first by the unit: offense, defense, and special team.
This information was gathered for American and National conferences, as well as the NFL in its entirety. It is clear when comparing the data in Figure 3 that more longhaired players play defense than offense or special teams.
Defensive players are less likely to be carrying the ball, and hence are less likely to be exposed to the potential risks associated with hair tackling. Thus, the fact than fewer longhaired players are on the offensive team is a good thing. There is a similar reduction in special teams, but it is less dramatic.
A comparison of all NFL players to those with long hair was also evaluated for all offensive positions, as shown in Figure 4. The distribution of all NFL offensive players, regardless of hairstyle, was actually quite similar to that found of offensive players with long hair. Again, this is a good thing as the quarterback position handles the ball more than any other position, so the high frequency of short hair means less of a chance for hair-pulling injuries.
Additionally, more guards and running backs were found to have long hair. It is noted that although running backs are tackled frequently, they more commonly have long hair, which means an increased chance for injury due to hair tackling. A similar analysis was conducted of all defensive positions, as described in Figure 5. The distribution of defensive players with and without long hair was very similar. In fact, no significant differences were found.
Finally, the positions where the player typically handles the football were also investigated, as these would be the players most likely to be tackled.
It was hypothesized that if there would be any differences between the general NFL population and those with long hair, it would be in the positions where the player most commonly has the ball. As was described above, those are the positions that are governed by the Ricky Rule and open to hair tackles.
The following three examples are offered as case studies. In each case, video of the incident was discoverable from a simple internet search, and the study tells a dramatic tale.
The play was captured very clearly on video. Screenshots from the video of the interception and hair tackle are shown in Figure 7. The total playtime was 23 seconds, and a video analysis of the play showed the following five stages:. It felt good. The investigators consider motives that Polamalu may have had to minimize reports of discomfort.
Namely, he wears his hair as a symbol of his Samoan heritage. Also, Head and Shoulders, a key Polamalu sponsor, later insured his mane by Lloyds of London for one million dollars 2.
Clearly, Polamalu had strong reason to want to avoid the NFL disallowing long hair on their players. Personal freedoms of NFL players to wear their hair as they desire are described later in this paper. Ward, Jr. What was notable in this play was that while Lynch apparently only lost one dreadlock, he immediately felt that it was gone, found it on the sideline and put it in his waistband.
It is unknown if the dreadlock tore at the base of the helmet or at the scalp, but it clearly got the attention of Marshawn Lynch. Hence, it is assumed that even the loss of one dreadlock caused enough pain to get the attention of Lynch. Screenshots from the Lynch incident are shown in Figure 8.
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