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Why NFL officials are ejecting players who don't actually throw a punch
Lane could be seen shoving his left arm into the chest of Packers receiver Davante Adams, after Adams had grabbed and twisted Lane's face mask, but that was the apparent extent of Lane's aggression.
Not even Adams could remember an actual punch thrown, saying that all he could recall was "a lot of hand fighting going on."
Let's be clear on how the NFL treats punching in its rulebook, the document that all players and coaches use to understand how to navigate the game.
Rule 12, Section 4, Article 1(a) lists throwing a punch or a forearm as among the acts that can trigger the league's multiple-foul automatic-ejection rule. In other words, if a player is penalized twice in a game for throwing a punch or forearm, he is to be automatically ejected.
Lane, Spain and Howard were all ejected after a single penalty, however. Why?
The rules give the referee power to eject in circumstances that are deemed "flagrant." For these purposes, flagrant is defined as a violation of rules that is "extremely objectionable, conspicuous, unnecessary, avoidable or gratuitous."
http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post ... ow-a-punch
What a crock of shit.
Lane could be seen shoving his left arm into the chest of Packers receiver Davante Adams, after Adams had grabbed and twisted Lane's face mask, but that was the apparent extent of Lane's aggression.
Not even Adams could remember an actual punch thrown, saying that all he could recall was "a lot of hand fighting going on."
Let's be clear on how the NFL treats punching in its rulebook, the document that all players and coaches use to understand how to navigate the game.
Rule 12, Section 4, Article 1(a) lists throwing a punch or a forearm as among the acts that can trigger the league's multiple-foul automatic-ejection rule. In other words, if a player is penalized twice in a game for throwing a punch or forearm, he is to be automatically ejected.
Lane, Spain and Howard were all ejected after a single penalty, however. Why?
The rules give the referee power to eject in circumstances that are deemed "flagrant." For these purposes, flagrant is defined as a violation of rules that is "extremely objectionable, conspicuous, unnecessary, avoidable or gratuitous."
http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post ... ow-a-punch
What a crock of shit.
