IN CASE YOU NEED A LITTLE HIT TO KEEP YOU GOING

That’s a “clean hit”? Then what do “helmet to helmet” and “spearing” mean?

Courtesy of the man who registered a sub-5 Wonderlic. Must be tough to stay academically eligible at Auburn.

“spearing” and helmet to helmet" are both NFL terms. There is no penalty for hitting with your helmet in college unless they flag you for unnecessary roughness.

Given the choice between watching Reggie Brown get clocked — or pretty much anything from the ‘04 UGA-Auburn game, for that matter — and watching this chick, even if it involves ice dancing, I’ll take the ice dancing. By the way, for forcing me to relive Brown’s near-decapitation, you’re now officially on my list. In pen.

I remember seeing that hit and uttering with great joy, “oh—Junior just killed that bitch.” Then, after realizing Junior might have killed that bitch, I was ashamed. For a few minutes.

He drops his head, and spears the man. If it was the NFL, that’d be a 6 digit fine.

That’s just wrong. Why not link the Quentin Coryatt demolishing, the pee wee killer, or one of many other big hits. That link alone just brought y’all down a peg. It was wrong, and ruthless.

I post this with all sincerity. Immediately after the hit, when I saw the way, Reggie’s head was awkwardly resting on the ground, I honestly thought he was dead. I even told my wife, they just killed a man, out there. I was scared for him.

Later he and Reggie became friends.

And BTW, the Wonderlic score wasn’t valid, he didn’t finish the test for some reason, it was said later.

Damn Orson. The sound on the rest of that clip is off b/c they said “it wasn’t a clean hit” and an Aubie deleted the rest of it.

It wasn’t intentional, but it sure as hell wasn’t clean either.

I thought Reggie was dead when it happened. To the AU student section’s credit, they did too. Never heard another team’s fans chant an injured players name before that night.

I linked to this one because it is the one I found this morning. It is a long off season and we need lots of reminders of the game we all love.

They kept referring to Junior Rosegreen as playing a ‘money game’ if memory serves. He must have found all kinds of dough in that kid’s earhole. If not before, then certainly for the few minutes after when his gray matter was recongealing, a la Terminator 2.

Never been less concerned about a key fumble. And I’m just proud Reggie could understand the concept of Wonderlic, let alone score on it.

Stranko’s already posted a great response to this, but the feel-good portion of the story not mentioned was this: Brown not only lived, but got up and walked off the field (albeit with a couple of normal sized people supporting him under each arm.) Auburn fans, like the rest of us, sat convinced that someone had just been killed on the field. Their chanting of Brown’s name and the subsequent ovation they gave him on leaving was one of the warm and fuzzy outcomes of a potentially lethal scenario. We’ve said it before, but Brown punched his NFL draft ticket for large numbers that day by surviving a hit that would have turned other players into pudding.

Rosegreen WAS spearing there. That’s debating gravity for us. It is almost unspeakably violent to watch. Yet we watch football for that violence, stomach-churning as it may be. And more perversely, we miss it when it’s not there.

It’s small here, and if someone wants to google Quentin Coryatt, I’m sure they’ll find a better version, but if you’re wanting a hit Stranko, it’s hard to get any more viscious than this.

http://www.aggies9496.com/Images/AggieGifs/TheHit.gif

Another hit which, while clean and legal, was apparently career ending for hitter and hittee was a collision in the ‘97 PSU-UM game. I couldn’t find it on the web, but if you try “Dadrian Taylor Hit” on a file sharing service of some sort you might find it. I’ve only ever seen a really short clip of it, but it’s an extreme lessons in that “equal and opposite reaction” stuff. Basically two bodies each moving at 20mph converge and become two bodies flat on their backs.

I was about to mention the ‘97 PSU-Mich. hit, but you beat me to it. I remember watching that game on TV. I think both players were knocked out by the hit. Simply b/c of that fact, it’s always been the biggest hit I’ve ever seen in my mind. Still unbelievable that both players in a one on one hit ended up unconscious. Definitely scary to watch though, as you never know if someone’s neck is broken in the process.

Darth__Sc00ter is dead wrong in his entire post. See the following:
“National Collegiate Athletic Association to Change Rule in Time for New Season
DALLAS, TX, August 4 – When college football preseason practices begin in August, players, coaches and officials throughout the country will receive instruction on new changes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules on “spearing.” According to the NCAA Football 2005 Rules and Interpretations – “No player shall use his helmet (including the face mask) to butt or ram an opponent or attempt to punish him. There shall be no spearing. No player shall strike a runner with the crown or the top of his helmet in an attempt to punish him.”

“The spearing rules were revised to help prevent head and neck injuries,” says Ron Courson, ATC, PT, NREMT-I, CSCS, director of Sports Medicine, University of Georgia, who headed the 32-member task force which the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) co-sponsored in January 2005."

This change in the rule represented a broadening of of the “spearing” rule which already existed in college ball.

cheap, dirty hit. obviously.

Yeah – that Dadrian Taylor hit was sick: ended his career. I am pretty sure the PSU tight end played again. What an incredible hit early in such a huge game. I can’t help but think that the injury time-out and the bodies laying on the PSU sideline took some wind out of their sails and put some fear in their hearts as the end result 34-8 UM did not live up to the billing set out by the ranking #4 M @ #2 PSU.

btw, COWolverine, did you happen to stay at my place in State College that year?