the-nfl-bans-customized-facemasks-because-football-isnt-supposed-to-be-fun
Now let me take you a little further down the rabbit hole. I'm just going to present the facts, then let you make your own conclusion.
The NFL league offices which reside in New York, favor the northeast teams.... especially the Giants/Mara family, Patriots/Kraft Family, Steelers/Rooney Family.
A little history of the NFL "new rules":
1. Emmit Smith taking off his helmet after scoring TDs in the '90s which at the time broke the record of most Rushing TDs in a regular season at 25. Next year, NFL bans players from removing helmets..... became known as the "Emmit Rule".
2. Eric Williams, Cowboys Offensive Lineman, who dominated all opposing Defensive Lineman, and as described by Michael Strahan...."Eric makes you have a real bad day". So the NFL put in the "Eric Williams Rule", No Hands to the Face.
3. Patriots/Billicheat - film opposing teams' practices and use the tape to prepare. During that period the Patriots won 3 Superbowls. Since being found out, the Partriots have won ZERO Superbowls. For punishment, Patriots lose no draft picks, no suspensions and all of the recorded evidence is BURNED by Goodell and the NFL NY offices. Move forward a few years, the Saints have a little internal bounty pool, where if defensive players knock an opposing player out of the game they win some money. NFL suspends the head coach for one year, several players are suspended for multiple games (after which this was overturned by a judge in a court ruling), defensive coordinator banned indefinitely..... which by all accounts destroys and negates the Saints season in 2012. So to Summarize - the NFL Northeast biased offices found that cheating to win a game is OK by the Patriots, but an internal pool with some defensive players' money, deserves a full year knocked from the Saints....... uh yeah, like I said, I will let you make your own conclusions......
But now we get to the new rule..... No Custom Face Masks. I find it amazingly coincidental that this becomes an issue, 2 weeks after DeMarcus Ware, Cowboys DE, announces he is going to use a new facemask (aka grill) to keep defenders hands and fingers out of his face (which is odd, because I thought there was a "no hands to the face" rule, see #2 above..... I guess this only applies to teams not playing the Cowboys, because apparently Ware has been having problems with people getting their hands under his grill and in his face, but with "no calls" by the refs.... but I digress)......So DeMarcus Ware shows up in training camp with a new grill and the NFL/NY Offices, 2 weeks later announce "NO CUSTOM FACEMASKS"..... yet if you read the article, they conveniently have already excluded players Chris Canty/Ravens Lineman and Jason Tuck/Giants Lineman. How convenient. So The Giants and Ravens Lineman are allowed to keep their custom facemasks, but not DeMarcus Ware. It's so sad and biased, it's almost laughable. Yet this northeast bias continues, year after year. The other owners not in this special little North East Bubble need to stand up to Goodell and demand it stop.
Again, I'll let you draw you're own conclusions, but I call NFL NY NorthEast Office B@#$&*$T.
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