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A fair portion of these hits were legal at the time but most likely not legal now. The rules are getting stricter now about head to head contact but it happens anyway. Still brutal sport.

100% worse to get hit when you don't see it coming. We call it "blind-sided" or "ear-holed"

The tackle that you thought was a wrestling move and probably not legal is actually a beautifully executed old school, shoulders square to midsection tackle...with a lift takedown for emphasis. Those kinds of tackles, especially in the open field like this one was, are actually a rarity in today's football.

As has been mentioned, when most of these were filmed the hits were completely legal. Players are still trying to adapt to the new stricter rules because all of their football lives they were encouraged to go out and "Knock somebody's head off!"

I actually got a severe concussion from someone taking a cheap shot and hitting me in the head with the top part of their helmet. Played the rest of the game and felt fine. Long story short I feel asleep, woke up in a different state, and had to learn how to walk again. That was going on 18 years ago and I still suffer from that injury. Football is so much fun but obviously very dangerous!

As one High School coach once said: "If you knock the other guy's helmet off and his *head* isn't in it, you didn't hit him hard enough."

2:50 you absolutely *_COULD_* do that. 2:55 the padding isn't there to protect players, but to *_WEAPONIZE_* players.

You can hit people who don't have the ball. It's a "block" to protect your ball carrier.

In 1984, Chicago Bears vs LA Raiders, Bears' QB Jim McMahon had a season ending injuries: bruised ribs and lacerated kidney. This game was one of most violent games in NFL history.

Thing is, the pads make it less safe. Rugby because you wear nothing it’s more wrap tackle based. You put guys in armour and give them a big helmet at THEY are willing to launch themselves like missiles. You’re more aware when you’re unprotected and play as such.

When you realize the sheer size of these guys, it's all the more impressive. Most of them are about 2 meters in height and at LEAST a hundred kilos. And their speed and agility is just crazy, considering their size. Just top notch athletes all around. So getting hit by one of these guys is like someone driving past you and throwing a refrigerator at you.

The padding in football is a weapon. The helmets especially. They’re made of foam padded hard plastic, the face masks are made of iron covered with rubber. When you put on a football helmet it makes you want to use the helmet as a battering ram.

Think of the shoulder pads as weapons, rather than protection. You're not allowed to hit with the top of the helmet. QBs get extra protections from the rules due to their importance. Most important man on the team.

There was a guy named Jack "The Assassin" Tatum, who once permanently paralyzed a man in a *pre-season* (you know, practice) game. Football can be a very brutal sport.

As teenagers we used to play full contact football without Any padding but the clothes your wearing. I never broke anything in these games but I know others that have, a little Titanium bone bracing surgery and you're good as new, that is till you get older and start feeling all those hits when getting up in the morning.

American football (AF) evolved from soccer and rugby but developed into a completely different sport. The first AF game was played in 1869 between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time. A set of rule changes drawn up from 1880 onward by Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", established the snap, the line of scrimmage, eleven-player teams, and the concept of downs. Later rule changes legalized the forward pass, created the neutral zone and specified the size and shape of the football.

These big hits you are seeing is what we live on whenever it comes to football, with or without pads, since we was kids.

These were all clean hits. Part of the game is maintaining the ball through a catch, so hitting the shit out of a receiver or runner is really common.

Old football wisdom, "Keep you head on a swival." Avoid getting hit.

I have watched this football video over a hundred times legitimately

I had a couple of friends from the UK when attending high school in Houston, TX. They would often talk about how tough rugby players were for not wearing protective gear. In American football, there has to be gear because the men who weigh 250 lbs in the NFL run 4.5 second 40 yard dashes. The impacts of their hits are like small auto collisions.

Before even starting these "_______ reacts to American Football" style videos, I'm always looking forward to the first pause for "No way that's legal right?" 😂 Fantastic video gentlemen, thoroughly enjoy watching you guys learn the sport more and more as I go through the catalogue.

Just discovered your channel. I always enjoy watching British reacting to football hits. It's an absolutely brutal sport. I played in high school and a few years in the semi pros. At 40 years old, some days I struggle to walk just from the damage my body has taken.

Rugby: We want to see the injuries, but don't want to see the players hurt. NFL: We want see the players hurt, but don't want to see the injuries.

Regarding picking a team: The NFL finance and wage structure makes it so that all the teams are quite a bit more equal. It's much more like every NFL team is like a solid, mid-table Premier League team. No "Big Six" (or seven now with Newcastle). And no Relegation fodder. Everyone is like the West Ham-Villa-Wolves-Palace, mid-table range. So when you do have an Everton (or Sunderland or West Brom) that drops waaaaay low, or a Brentford or Fulham (or Blackpool or Huddersfield) that skyrockets waaaay up, it's pretty normal. Like in mid-table where you win one week and those three points move you up 5 places and you think Europe is possible -- and then next week you lose three points and drop and are afraid of relegation. In other words -- You will NEVER be able to pick an NFL team because you think they're Real Madrid or Barcelona, Bayern or PSG. That's not how the NFL is set up. So, really, you should pick the MINNESOTA VIKINGS! The greatest team in the universe (arch-rivals to the bears and packers). But only if you support Arsenal. If you pathetically support the totty chickens or manch-divided then we don't want you supporting the Great VIKINGS! And Welcome to the NFL!

Today, a player is considered defenseless at a certain point so a lot of those hits would be illegal today. With the players becoming stronger and faster over the years, also with retired players developing CTE, new rules and equipment have been introduced to American football.

I played football through High School and rugby through College. Rugby is definitely the harder sport overall - even the big boys in the pack need to be fit enough to run up and down the pitch. But, what you get in Football that you don't in Rugby is the hyper-specialization of skill and physical training. A 250lb MLB isn't going to to keep up on the pitch, but that's because he's been training since puberty to turn his body into a machine designed to deliver one explosion of force in a split second. A rugby team is made of athletes that can lean into a specific role, but everyone exists within a tighter band of overall strength and fitness standars. A football team is a machine made of tools designed to do specific jobs so theres a broader variance in skills, strength, fitness. The other difference is the common-sense tackling rules that Rugby's always had which Football is slowly starting to move towards. My highschool football coach encouraged us to play rugby in the Spring because rugby teaches you how to properly execute an open-field tackle. In a similar way that gloves encourage harder hits in boxing over bareknuckles, football pads encourage players to throw their bodies like a human punch as opposed to properly getting low and wrapping-up. Rugby gave me stitches and scars, but football gave me broken bones.

Rugby and American football are both sports requiring an incredible amount of toughness. The best way I've heard it explained is rugby is a physical, contact sport and football is a collision sport. Football is about who can be the most explosive and violent in 5 seconds, whereas rugby is about who can be consistently physical and tough over a grueling 40 minute half.

As a Polynesian born and raised in the US, we Islander's grew up playing both rugby and football heavily because we're first generation American. Rugby as tough and as brutal as it can be, is much more safe because of hitting regulations. I've had to explain it to my family overseas who used to make fun of football. This is why we wear gear. And the gear don't really do much to be honest haha. But rugby is a contact sport. A gentleman's game. Football is a collision sport. A sinister game. We dont play to hurt other's.... sometimes. Lol 💯💯💯 thank you for sharing!!! Much love! Your Tongan friend from the US! 🤙🏾 Ps. The head to head collisions have recently been stopped because players over recent years have developed CTE and committing suicide as a result. And yes, the hit you don't see coming is always the one that hurts more.

A while back, I was watching a sports science type show that measured the tackle force between American Football, Rugby, and I think the third sport was Australian Rules Football I'm not sure. But the test revealed that American Football players hit with much more force than the other sports. It was said to be because American Football players are padded and the subconscious effect of that was that they're more likely to play with reckless abandon. Hockey pads have a similar effect. After some of those guys get enough momentum built up, you can potentially skate faster than you can run, the hits are just...WOW!!

Who ever made this original video did a great job syncing the hits with the music!

One of the crazy things about football to me is the younger guys who play in junior high and high school, there are some nasty hits even at that level. I saw a lot of broken bones, (usually arms) and lots of people down for the count after getting stuck!

When you play football, the best way to think about a hit is that each one is about as traumatic as a small car accident. If you can just let yourself go limp in a hit, you don't really feel it, and you can pop right up. So for like a running back, they have the equivalent of 20 or so small car accidents per game. These men play 18 games a season, and often play injured. Football destroys the body and brain, but it's the greatest game on earth. It's a war game.

Rugby is a rough sport, lotsa respect for you guys. Football is different in that we have two lines that oppose each other instead of following the ball down the line laterally. Enjoyed the video!

I’ve read a comment that someone said that rugby is a CONTACT sport and American football is an IMPACT sport. Those guys are hitting each other with the force of a literal car crash.

In college football there's a rule called Targeting, where one player deliberately targets the head. In most conferences, if they catch you doing it you're ejected from the game and could miss half of the next game.

That’s a classic video!! 🔥🔥 Song brings back memories

The 'wrestling moves' were probably the most legal hits in this vid, lololol.

There used to be a saying for these hits. Not sure if I've heard it in a while but..."de-cleating" a player is pretty much what you see. Hitting so hard you remove their cleats from the ground. Many of the hits you see in this video, the ones where someone is running to tackle and doesn't see the blocker coming, are now illegal.

They have OUTLAWED All of these types of HITS in the NFL.

The rate of CTE for american football players is off the charts. Basically, back in the day in particular, they didn't really understand the compounding effects of concussions nor did they realize how easy one can get them especially in a contact sport. So when most of these hits were legal and when helmet hitting was somewhat encouraged you would see some pretty devastating consequences. They have done a couple movies on the CTE rates in the NFL.

It wasn't in this video, but a major hit that motivated rule changes or increased fines for hitting defenseless wide recievers happened to a player for the Cardinals named Boldin. Two players on the opposing team (Jets) dove at him like missiles and basically sandwiched his head with theirs. It caused a facial fracture and a broken jaw. Boldin had to get wires put into his mouth to fix his bite so he could eat/drink normally again.

The best part o being at a NCAA or NFL level game is hearing the hits. There is a loud crack of the pads and the whole crowd goes oooohh! You can hit a player who is chasing the ball carrier. He has to have a good chance of tackling the runner. You must keep all your eyes wide open at all times. Good job guys!

Just an aside all the "Wrestling Moves" the one where the player pogo sticks the offensive player that jumped (a Spinebuster in Pro wrestling) and the Belly to back style suplex (which has many names but is normally called a German Suplex in Pro Wrestling vernacular) are both legal, and encouraged at every level of football.

American Football perfectly demonstates what happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object.

Some of these hits make you feel like your going to be called as a witness in a murder case! LOL

American football is arguably the most brutal contact sport and we start Ballin at like 8yrs old 😅🤣 anyone can catch it so you better keep your head on a swivel

it’s called a conversion if u attempt to get into the end zone or “goal” again by carrying or throwing the ball it’s worth 2 pts or can choose the kick after a touchdown is called a field goal

Enjoying the reactions! Great job!

You could "DRAG by MY HELMET" Anyday, big fella!! Lol

"I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately. Unless it was, you know, important-like a league game or something." - Dick Butkus, Linebacker, Chicago Bears

Lost my whole memory tooo this sport and still love it🤣💯

There was actually a game played once called the body bag game. Was between the Eagles and Redskins. The game used to be a lot more violent. They have made lots of rules to make players safer now.

That old film of the neck tackle was coined a "clothes-line" tackle. Which was legal for long time in the NFL.

The funniest part is nowadays 2:45 is the most legal hit and they thought that was the worst one 😂

Head shots used to be totally legal and even encouraged. The rules have changed a lot over the years to protect players. This game uses to be absolutely brutal.

The main push for more safety rules in the NFL came in the last decade or so, so any clips that appear to be before that time based on camera quality are much more likely legal hits at the time

Goldberg was a football player and was in the NFL for a brief minute. The "spear" is directly pulled from his football days which is why you guys thought of it lol

Goldberg was an NFL player, that's why his signature move is named after a type of personal foul. As for the guy in the white and green that you asked if he was out, that hit broke his back and ended his career. A lot of those hits were legal at the time, including the facemask tackle, but are now illegal.

headshots are generally illegal but there is leeway given when it cant be avoided. however in recent years they have really been cracking down on targeting the head. previously it was just a 15 yard penalty but in recent years players have just been getting ejected for it

Man playing football in USA in highschool championship is an atmosphere when you’re there, it is fucking intense. I’m a speedy running back and returner but running into some people was def scary but you gotta try to run through them and utilitlize your body as an advantage. I took some crazy licks tho 😂

Look up Major Wright's hit on Oklahoma.Rumor is the receiver nearly bit his tongue in half.

I can 100% guarantee you wanna be running full speed toward someone rather than take a blindside hit. Those blindside hits are the most brutal because you don’t expect it, at least if I’m running full speed toward someone I can put my head down and try to barrel through them.

my old coach used to tell us if you think your stronger than em take em out the game, if your not take out their knees. he didn't realize how strong the team was until there were 7-8 injuries a game

The British actually were the first to call it soccer. The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association, which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football.

No head to head hits anymore. Not allowed to lead with the crown of the helmet. Most of the big hits occur because the defenders are try to separate the ball carrier from the ball, or the offense are protecting the ball carrier. The size of these players is often most spoken about. It is rarely spoken about the speed at which these large athletes are moving. In 2012 at the NFL scouting combine, Dontari Poe, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall, weighed 346lbs at the time, ran the 40 yard dash in 4.98 seconds. That's a very large man moving very quickly.

Back when football was football, you're not good if you play defense and never had a concussion. I only played corner in highschool and had a few, but then again I'm from Florida 😂

Quite a number are college & high school. They're a different breed. My son's an 8th grader & he's a 6 ft tall defensive lineman. And he's not the biggest on the team 🤣 Also most are ok...the head shots will get you flagged for targeting now. Technically that wrestling move was a clean wrap and put him on his back...so allowed 😎

If you haven't yet you should check out NHL's hardest hits. Hockey takes the power of NFL, stamina of long distance running, agility of a ballerina, toughness of bull riding,hand eye coordination of an elite gamer all rolled together while balancing on 2 thin 2mm thick steel blades on ice.

Helmet to helmet contact was outlawed in 1996. Lowering the helmet to make a tackle became a penalty in 2018. Tackling by grasping the facemask is the facemask is a penalty.

Some of these camera angles are hard to see well enough to know whether it's "shoulder to shoulder" or "helmet to helmet." Also, there are situations where a player is presumed to expect a hit and other where a player is presumed to be "defenseless." There is a category of foul called "unnecessary roughness" where it's clear that making contact would not have changed the outcome of the play. For example, tacking an opponent when they are already out of bounds, intentionally crashing into a player who is already down, tackling a player after they have obviously lost possession of the ball, etc. Likewise, certain hits and tackles are illegal if they come too early, like before the ball arrives to a receiver, though these are usually levied as "interference", "illegal contact" or the like. Much of the "used to be legal" stuff you were speculating on is covered by expanded rule definitions in the above areas. Sometimes teams decide it is strategically valuable to commit a foul because they are willing to pay the penalty yardage. Several new rules have cropped up making most of these punishable by additional "unsportsmanlike conduct" sanctions (including ejection) to further deter teams from committing too many willful fouls. You do see teams still take occasional intentional fouls, but these days it's mostly "delay of game" and generally not roughness. The league has even cracked down on abuse of game delays in recent years. As for concussion protocols, those mostly have to do with how a player who suffered a hit or jolt is evaluated to determine if they need to be removed from the game for further medical attention. In many injury situations, self-reporting players have incentive to "push the limits" to get back on the field. However, for some injuries this can seriously compound the medical danger, so the recent protocols call for an independent concussion expert to evaluate players according to strict guidelines. This hopefully removes the temptation for players to gamble with safety.

The first time you pause it and ask if it's legal. The guy that got hit was injured rest of season and they made a rule about "blindside blocks" because of it.

Welcome to the NFL Brothers! It ain't for the weak!!

Most were absolutely legal, it's changing a bit now where you can't target the head but it def is still brutal, rugby is a game of tackles and hard hits, American football is a game of absolute collisions and car wrecks basicly

I played Arena Football for a year, we were offered bonuses if anything we did got on ESPN. LOL

A lot of the bad concussions come from the head hitting the ground as opposed to the player v player contact especially in the 70’, 80’s, and early 90’s when the old Astroturf was still being used. That was nothing but a very thin carpet stretched over concrete.

It’s weird but the worst hit is when the neck whiplashes and hits the ground. And yes a lot of those hits resulted in knockouts and injuries

I was knocked out completely during a tackle while playing linebacker. And woke up with an excruciating headache a few seconds later. I never missed a play and played the entire game. That’s the way it was 25 years ago in high school. You were taught to walk off concussions.

Just for a little perspective, the average offensive lineman is 6’5” 314lbs while the average size for a defensive lineman is 6’3” 310lbs.

Many of these players get up and run back to the huddle. In soccer, the player gets kicked in the calf and is down for minutes, often rolling in "pain".

I got hit in the rib cage freshman year of high school (I'm 28 now) and still haven't healed. Also tore every ligament in my foot which also is still messed up. Beautiful sport but so dangerous

A note on your reference to "Soccer". The Brits have themselves to blame for that term. It comes from your tendency to shorten words. or groups of words. The game, as it's now known, was originally called, "Association Football", to differentiate itself from other, similar sports. That became "Assoc" in the lexicon of the day... which eventually evolved into "Soccer" a few generations, and generational dialects later.

Yes... we always lead with our heads back in the 70s.

The rules back in the 70's used to allow for ripping heads off. That changed. Some of those clips were old games back then.

Rugby is a contact sport. Football is a collision sport--AND the players are bigger, stronger and faster than rugby players (check out video on 10 current athletic freaks in the NFL). A famous Rugby player tried out for an NFL team as he had been a good runner in pro Rugby and he said that after the first practice--not actual game--he had been hit harder than anytime in his career playing rugby. Football is about smashing the guy, not just tackling him, as there are fewer opportunities than in Rugby to get the ball back in your possesion. Also, the equipment--should pads etc., are a basis to hit harder, they are weaponized. It is also why people playing football get injured more frequently and (much) more severly than in Rugby.

“That was naughty” lmao

The forces involved in American football hits are way more than rugby tackles. It's not even close.

"I don't know if you call it a conversion, but you get an extra point." So close! It's called an extra point.

These clips were compiled over a good number of years. Most of these hits today, would get you penalized, and or ejected, and or fined, and or suspended.

This is a compilation of NFL, college, high school and little league(kids 12 and under). These were before all the rule changes for helmet to helmet contact. Yes the hits were legal when this was put together.

Best jukes NLF don't really matter what you pick. And college football miracles part 1 that will blow y'all minds or yours if you by yourself

Wrestling moves are absolutely legal LOL

I played rugby and football in college. The difference is the size & speed of the players, and the collisions in football. The players are massive, fast, and when they collide, its brutal. Rugby is rough in a different way. There's a lot of "dirty" in fighting in those scrums and there are less refs to see the illegal stuff. There could be anything from punches, to biting, to head butting. Add to that the fact that there are no breaks in plays and you just keep running. In the USA, at first, a lot of the rugby players were former football players so we tended to play as if we still had pads sometimes but that's not good for longevity. You will see Rugby players playing longer because they tend to "turtle tackle", letting the player run into them and dragging him down. You don't see as many bone jarring collisions as in football. It doesn't matter if you have a helmet, because of the G forces, your brain still collides with the inside of your skull. Also, the pads protect your shoulders but not your abdomen or back. The helmet can be used as a weapon, but they have been outlawing hits with the helmet little by little for 20 years because the tackler can be paralyzed if he hits with the top of the head, or he can give himself and the other player concussions. Two great sports in their own way.

I got blindsided once, dude got me on my shoulder pads so it wasn't as painful as it looks. I was running after the ball carrier and out of nowhere I saw sky then grass. It was a bit fun spinning in the air like that, but then I hit the ground 😆

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At the time, 5hat piledriver was LEGAL. Technically, the defender had someone jump into his arms, sooooo... Gotta drop him.

Head to head contact is called targeting, grabbing the helmet is facemasking, grabbing the back of the collar is a horse collar, etc. They are all illegal now.

You can do the suplexs just as long as the play is still going and no whistles have been blow.

The "wrestling move" tackles you commented on - the first with the opponent's thighs wrapped up by the tackler and then driving to the ground is legal. It's a perfect "form tackle" in fact. The second where the QB gets suplexed is flagrantly not legal and will draw a penalty.