So Many Rules because of Dallas Cowboys!

[Reid1boys]

Harvey Martin head slap rule.
Irvin didn’t create the push off but he did bring it to the foreground to be enforced.

And Erik Williams wasnt the fiirst to put his hands in someone's face. Emmitt wasnt the first to take off his helmet after a touchdown. Roy Williams wasnt the first to do a horse collar tackle.....

BUT Cowboys games are the most watched, most publicized so when Emmitt scores 74 Tds in a season and immediately takes his helmet off, it garners attention.
When Erik Williams kicks the living hell out of Reggie White in a nationally televised playoff game, it garners more attention.

 

[Reid1boys]

just watch...if the cowboys lose to the 49ers this week there will be something put in about teams in the playoffs having to play their games in a certain window to prevent an unfair competitive advantage due to one team getting extra rest (aka a monday playoff winner vs a sat playoff winner)...

This rule should be in place. It is absolute BS that we played on the road Monday night, then arrive hom Monday at 2am, Tuesday morning, get to be home clean for 3 days then back on plane to fly to SF.
How bout this? We always play on Thursday for Thanksgiving, and in the previous several years we got stuck playing the following Thursday as well. Not a big deal since we had just played. But this year, we played on Thanksgiving, then back to Sunday games, then 4 weeks later back to Thursday again. Name me another team that played on Thanksgiving that also had an additional Thursday night game.

 

[tyke1doe]

Yep, the first 3 are defitnitly correct.
The last one is speculitive on my part.

I think the Dez no-catch ruling and Megatron's no-TD-catch against the Bears (I think) were the two most controversial plays that had an impact on that rule being changed.

 

[tyke1doe]

Thought Decon Jones was the most famous head slapper!

No, that was my momma.
"Boy, get your A-over here!"

 

[john van brocklin]

No, that was my momma.
"Boy, get your A-over here!"

Yikes !

 

[IceBowler]

I think the push off rule was initiated due to Irvin as well. It does seem like it would've been there all along, but I seem to recall the league changing something directly because of how 88 was eating up dbs.

The original 88, Drew Pearson, was doing it long before Michael used it. (See the Hail Mary miracle pass, MN 1975)

 

[Nickyd2208]

I would go as far as saying the salary cap which was implemented in 1994 in the middle of the Cowboys dynasty.

 

[RonnieT24]

Laurent Robinson sort of ran towards the huddle and then went right back to the sideline. We were called for too many men in the huddle - something the announcers hadn't seen called since the 1970's. He never made it half way to the friggin huddle. That cost us dearly.

That was Brice Butler not Laurent Robinson. Robinson had been long gone from Dallas by 2014.

 

[ConstantReboot]

1. No hands to the face: Eric Williams
2. No Horse Collar Tackles : Roy Williams
3. No blows to the head: MB3
4. No markings for kick attempts : Maher ???

We seem to be the most heavily policed team in the entire NFL !

Has any other team even come close?

Comments, thoughts or any venting ?

Also the push off rule against Michael Irvin.

 

[RonnieT24]

Don't forget the "Thou must escort the receiver gently to the ground if he catches the ball over the middle" rule (aka the defenseless receiver) which was pretty much brought into existence after Darren Woodson broke that dude's sternum in the Seattle game way back when. There was no helmet to helmet contact (which had been how the rule had been interpreted previously) he just blew him up.. and drew a 75,000 dollar fine for his trouble.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Witten heel tap continuation rule meaning toes drag is not enough if you are catching a pass near the sideline but are going backwards out of bounds rather than forwards.

 

[CWR]

The original 88, Drew Pearson, was doing it long before Michael used it. (See the Hail Mary miracle pass, MN 1975)

Well I guess the league didn't hate Dallas as much back then, because it was Irvin they changed the rules for. Maybe Jerry came in and made enemies right away. Lol

 

[Gorgon]

1. No hands to the face: Eric Williams
2. No Horse Collar Tackles : Roy Williams
3. No blows to the head: MB3
4. No markings for kick attempts : Maher ???

We seem to be the most heavily policed team in the entire NFL !

Has any other team even come close?

Comments, thoughts or any venting ?

Wasn't the "crack back block" directed at Landry's Cowboys?

 

[john van brocklin]

Wasn't the "crack back block" directed at Landry's Cowboys?

Now , that's a little before my time.

 

[CowboyStar88]

One of the reasons we’re America’s Team. Most loved, most hated, most polarizing, most everything! Daily topics on all sports shows:

1)LA Lebrons
2)Dallas sucks
3)Current most trendy ratings grabber

Rinse, repeat!

Disrespectful

 

[VaqueroTD]

Gentlemen, you are forgetting our team’s most important contribution to the NFL - hot cheerleaders.

 

[PeeKZ_333]

1. No hands to the face: Eric Williams
2. No Horse Collar Tackles : Roy Williams
3. No blows to the head: MB3
4. No markings for kick attempts : Maher ???

We seem to be the most heavily policed team in the entire NFL !

Has any other team even come close?

Comments, thoughts or any venting ?

Dont forget Salary Cap was put in place to stop us or we would have reeled in some more hardware.

 

[Chuck 54]

The kicking rule seems stupid to me. So some holders have been marking the spot with markers or cloth, and the NFL decides to make it a point of emphasis right as playoffs begin, not during the season? Anger was using blades of grass….how is that not allowed? He should just spit on a spot and see what they say.
He definitely popped the ball down and reset it twice. Not making excuses, but why do anything in the playoffs that weren’t being done all season?

And if the ref told him he couldn’t use the grass right before the game in warmups, it probably messed with his head more than Maher’s.

 

[ESisback]

Disrespectful

To who?

 

[john van brocklin]

Dont forget Salary Cap was put in place to stop us or we would have reeled in some more hardware.

No doubt!!!