Throwdown":2sxxu1yh said:
I wanna know how that wasn't a clean hit though? Dude lowered his shoulder into the Punter chest, he should've been fair game if he's trying to get in on a tackle, no?
The "unnecessary roughness" tag is just too arbitrary. I think it's loose definition actually makes things tougher on the refs and God knows they struggle with clearly defined rules, as it is.
But based on other UR calls we've seen, some ridiculous, this one I definitely feel should have been called because the hit was clearly excessive (under the circumstances) and IMO, unnecessarily so. Payback's a bitch and the culprit here better have his head on a swivel the next time the 2 teams meet.
Laying out a punter, in such fashion, is hardly a manly act. He could have yelled at him and the guy would have folded. Instead, he got a good look at the punter, saw he was unaware and defenseless, then nailed him with everything he could muster. I thought it was cheap and was surprised a hockey game didn't break out immediately following.