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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2375205, member: 289"]
I still think technique is a big factor. A few years back Danny Parkins had a local show and asserted that "Dick Butkus made his living with helmet-helmet hits. I looked on You-Tube at three different clips of Butkus tackles from three different seasons, (there were no repeats). There wasn't a single helmet-to-helmet tackle. Dick's tackles could have been used to illustrate a book on the proper way to tackle: head up, so you can see what you are doing, arms out to grab the player and lead with your shoulder pads: that's what they are there for. Butkus could get rough but that was after he'd hit the guys with the pads and wrapped them up to make sure they weren't going anywhere. I remember when Jack Tatum crippled Darryl Stingley. That was a helmet to helmet hit and there was much shock and criticism that he'd hit Stingley in that manner. Now you see someone trying to do that in every game. It's bad football and it's dangerous to both players.
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