NFL bans hip-drop tackle despite NFLPA's objections

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ORLANDO, Fla. — The NFL has officially banned the hip-drop tackle after a vote at the spring owners meetings.

A source confirmed the news to Yahoo Sports shortly before the announcement.

Momentum has been building for months now to ban the hip-drop tackle, which league competition committee executive vice president Jeff Miller said “results in about a 25 times rate of injury as a typical tackle.”

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Though there's been scrutiny over what exactly constitutes a hip-drop tackle, competition committee chairman Rich McKay played a video compilation of examples during media availability Monday:

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[Chainfire]

1. It would be a lot safer if they banned tackling altogether. ;)

Play it like basketball where any contact is a foul!

[Cuthbert Allgood]

2. Absolutely false that not all contact is a foul in the NBA.

Just look at when a player bodies their way into the paint and the defensive player pushes back. If you hit the ball first on a defensive play, there is often a LOT of contact after that ball hit. Defensively if you have your arms straight up, you can put a lot of contact on an advancing offensive player. Basketball is a very physical game.

That said, the swivel hip drop is very similar in what it does to the body as the horse collar. Lets save these guys knees.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. You Said It

Since the 50s, the bumping, forearm shoves, hip checking have been happening in the paint every possession.
Slashers who attack the lane draw contact nearly 100% of the time. Fouls are called on about 20% of such moves.
That's true even now with more restrictions on hand-checking & hooking & the wider court (defensuve coverage-wuse) due to the three point dominance.
Basketball was never intended to be a non-contact sport. It was designed as a no collision sport.