I think: how the team approved this jersey design without checking the NCAA rules...

Same. I was literally going to say the same thing

Every time there's a roughing call they need to say it just like he did

I know, Right, THAT was HILARIOUS!

Best officiating call ever in any league!

Aw, gee Wally.....

Freaking hilarious. What a candid

And the emphatic pointing while he's calling it. He's thinking "don't pull that sh*t in MY game!"

@@adammitchellclark5127 The sad thing the dude did make contact with his leg (not enough for a penalty, but enough to roll with he contact so you don't hurt your plant leg) and as a kicker you are taught to roll with the contact and kinda roll to not hurt your plant leg. It was a bullshit call and it seemed like the ref just doesn't like kickers.

@@robertdouth8979 exactly. There was contact so the kicker wasn't faking anything. Lol douchebag ref.

Wrong call, right assessment. That's Unsportsmanlike Conduct, and should be assessed as such.

@@michaelfalkner1186 and who asked you

It looked like the punter just tried to protect his leg from what they showed. Don’t know if he said something or did something after the clip though

@@21jstreet5 I think it was because of the pirouette he did after the punt blocker barely touched him (or completely missed him). There was a bit of a pause between the "contact" and the leg whip.

@eauhomme No, the receiving team's leg hit the kicker's leg. Definitely a bad call.

I once auditioned for an EA sports title sequence as the referee. In my audition, I used this "giving him the business" call. I got the part!

That was friggin' funny. Yes, we need that to be a call.

😆🤘🤘

Larry Czonka'ed him in the head.

Yeah, you can stiff arm all you want, but throwing a punch at the tackler - not so much😉

@@jim2lane yeah, you're allowed to do anything to opposing players that they're allowed to do to you when you have the ball. But assault is slightly frowned upon.

Another one would be the simulating the snap count penalty between Arizona-Cincinnati in 2015. One of the Cincinnati players on defense tried to say "hike" that caused a Arizona player to false start. Because the umpire was behind the linebackers when this play happened (he's only in this position for the final 2 minutes of each half), It was a 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Cincinnati that resulted in Arizona being put in good field position for an easy field goal to win the game as time expired.

Detroit did it last season! I don't recall which game but it happened at the very end.

@@HzizsVynryn happened on thanksgiving

That happened in Vikings vs Cowboys this year on Halloween

Should have happened in 2015 to SEA v DAL as well

I'm pretty sure it started out trying to hurdle the punter, and quickly turned into doing it on purpose.

I thought he got away with that one.

@@Ebonzai nope, he was flagged

"Hurdles! Kicks a man!"

@@Ebonzai he got a huge fine for that one.

Nah it'd be called the way it was. Forearm shivers can only be delivered to the body. Even in csonkas day a forearm to the head was illegal. The reason it was made illegal was how open the eye slot on a lot of older helmets were. If you threw a forearm to the head you stood a good chance of splitting someones nose open. Because that's what happens when a forearm hits somebody's face; it splits open. It's intentional injury. That's been cut and dry for 50 years. Linemen were taught to block with forearms but they didn't get 15 lateral yards to build a head of steam and use their forearm like a hatchet. But even linemen sometimes ended up slipping one through, intentional or otherwise, which is why so many guys ended up with bloody faces in spite of having a helmet and facemask. Helmet designs got changed and blocking rules and practices changed. And the whole point of helmets was to stop all the facial bleeding in the first place, besides being dangerous and generally unhealthy the bloodiness of the game was the number one reason people didn't want to see football played prior to facemasks being developed. Made it hard to argue football wasn't just a bloodsport when every jersey and every face was covered in two or three people's blood. Just wanted to point out football has always been a sport with evolving rules. Kinda like stock car racing, baseball, basketball, soccer, track and field, and literally every sport. And I have to respect nascar fans for getting behind safety changes every time somebody gets hurt on the track. They'd rather still have dale Earnhardt around than complain about new safety rules and features. And their sport is inherently dangerous. They aren't there for the horror, they wanna watch races.

Same

That was RIDICULOUS! Zeke was in the process of being Tackled! What Should he have done... Turn his head to the Right and get Paralyzed by the Late Hit?

not hard to figure out bud. He led with his helmet

@@Luke-cu7bf they both did

@@sevenwonders1717 that hit was dangerous for the both of them. I think they called it on Ezekiel because his helmet was the one that actually made contact.

I once used that line in an audition for EA Sports ... and I got the part!

@@MultisportOfficial that's awesome!!

I'm not, it shouldn't be called at all, for either side. These calls are why I rather watch Hockey or even Rugby now. I mean when you duck to cover up, then you are ALWAYS leading with your helmet. I get why they call on the defense, but to be honest, a lot of people watch American football for the big hits.

@@puppethound Cool story bro, enjoy your CTE

@@IrishWeegee "my" CTE? makes no sense.

@@puppethound well yeah, if you think that its cool for them to run head first into each other and screw up their brains or end up paralyzed then surely you're manly enough to hop in there and take a few shots yourself.

@@puppethound SEE you’ve got CTE

I agree. That was a penalty. Refs are over paid ($150K+ a season) and have too much influence on a game. They should be fined for dumb calls like this one.

He held his leg up much longer than normal and tried to get it hit. The fact that the announcers knew he was getting penalized rather than the defensive player before the call was made is a pretty good clue.

I too thought it was a bad call. To me it does not matter how he drew the penalty as receivers are always stopping and jumping into defenders to do the same. Did he embellish…sure, but the defender did make contact.

I agree. Should have been a 5 yarder for Running Into the Kicker. However definitely not Roughing (15).

@@SBphd youve clearly never been a ref at any level. Also he didnt hit him, google the other angle.

Once again, it is AMAZING to see absolute fucking NOBODIES on KZfaq that have NO education, NO skills, NO experience in football no value to society at all, thinking they know more about the rules of the NFL than professional referees with DECADES of experience AND the announcers with decades more who both knew what the call was going to be before it was made. Sorry, fucking idiot. but the kicker clearly initiated the contact. Holding his leg up longer than normal kicking motion would dictate. And then HE moved his leg into the defender to get hit ever so slightly so he could fall like a stone. It was the most obvious flop. Believe it or not, that referee is superior to you in every way you could measure a human life. And once of those ways is knowledge of the rules of football.

Sure was!

haha, most likely

I mean, you basically HAVE to lower your helmet somewhat to tackle someone. Whoever moves their head last would get the penalty. Now if you spear the guy in the chest, that's a different story.

I was one of the ones looking at the grass trying to figure out what the "grass" rule was lol

Flopping like that should exempt you from any future roughing protection. And after the game, a lifetime ban. This isn't soccer, or basketball, pussies need not apply.

One of the rusher's legs did hit the kicker's extended leg, causing him to fall. It was a rushing the kicker/illegal contact penalty.

Of course, let's not forget. There was one of the great NFL refs, Ed Hochuli. He did love explaining the penalty to the finest details.

Or as John Madden was saying, picking up his player and throwing him into the end zone 😂.

Punter's probably like "You think I can turn my whole body midair after I jump straight up? F you, man." That's a blown call.

Yeah..And HE initiated the contact. He held his leg up longer than usual AND deliberately moved it into the defender. I can't believe how many morons here are arguing the most obvious flop attempt. It is why both announcers knew the call before it was made. You can't alter your kicking motion to try to make the defender lightly tap your toe that you left hanging in the air longer than usual. It truly is fucking amazing that total nobodies with absolutely no education or experience in football thinks they know more about a professional referee with DECADES of experience AND both announcers who knew before the call what it would be since it was so obvious. You know how your mommy told you we you were the smartest little boy at everything and the whole world would cater to you? She was lying. You are the dumbest fucker at everything, and that makes thinking you are smarter than anyone even worse.

@@FUGP72 Jesus christ bro are you OK?

@@tylerdegreef1575 I'm fine? You pick out your suicide method yet? Gotta end that loneliness somehow.

If you look at the 2:26 mark, contact was actually made. His leg was clearly hit.

@@Cutterman62 I think the difference is that he was making sure it would be hit.

@@Cutterman62 clearly that was obvious

Not even a Cowboys fan, it is a stupid rule and a stupid call, made by people who never played football at any level.

@@puppethound well I for one played Pee-wee, Junior league, Highschool and 2 years of college and I can tell you they have been calling that since I was in Pee-Wee. Anyone ( Offense or defense ) that lowers their head would get a flag. They just sort of phase it out and call it less the "bigger" you get for some reason when in fact it should be called more. A kid in my Highschool broke his neck doing this stuff on tackles. He was known as a big hitting Strong Safety but he ended up not playing another snap of football. If you watch some clips from the 70's and 80's you see RB's spearing people all the time with their helmets. It needs to be called more and removed from the game.

It's allowed for the running back within the tackle-box up to 2 yards downfield. (At least that was the rule as of a few years ago, to be honest though the NFL has lost me as a fan so I have no idea whether that's still the rule.)

Yeah, I agree. The NBA got that way due to the huge influx of European players coming into the league the last 15-20 years, so it became common place.

Agreed the last thing we need is to become like soccer.

@@George_M_ too late :P

If they called fouls for foul baiting in the NBA, James Harden would cease to exist.

I 100% agree, omg I was just thinking this. I mean if you can fake slide, the next time I am telling my defense to knock you out. Period!

They must have changed the rule. Because you can push, you just can't pull.

@@LarryTheBassplayer Yes, they changed the rule. Today you cannot pull or carry the runner. A rule you'll probably never see is goaltending in the NFL. It's illegal to stand by the goalposts and knock down a ball that's about to go over the crossbar. The officials can award the field goal in that case. It would be called either "unsportsmanlike conduct" or "Palpably Unfair Act". The latter is extremely rare, and as far as I know has never been called. There was a possiblity of it happening in the Super Bowl between the Ravens & 49ers. Ravens took an intentional safety rather than punting from their own end zone. Before the safety kick, Ravens' QB Joe Flacco told his teammates to illegally run on the field to tackle the returner should it look like he was going to score. It's likely that the officials would have awarded the 49ers a touchdown had that happened. I can't be sure of that.

I think it's specifically for subbing out, you can't dodge a 12th man penalty by leaving the end of the field.

I think if you enter from the sidelines you have to at least reach the hashmarks before setting to your position to participate in the play.