These were pretty mad. All I can say is American footballers are tough. I didn't expect the hits to be so hard in this sport but it makes the sport very exciting. What is the biggest hit you have ever seen? Are there any players who are known for big hits?
I think the worst hit I ever saw was in 1985, in RFK Stadium te Redskins vs the Giants. It is the time when Joe Thiesmann broke his leg. Then there is the, 1977 Vikings Fran Tarkenton vs. the Bengals, Fran set a one-game passing accuracy record the broke his leg. Warning; Watch only if you have a strong/ empty stomach. Enjoy the nightmares that are the NFL.
Ronnie Lott is an older player from back when they were allowed to kill each other, he was so hardcore that he had doctors amputate a broken finger so he could play in the playoffs.
Jack Tatum blindsides Daryl Stingley. Stingley was paralyzed for the rest of his life. American football in the 1970's was a totally different game compared to today. Players went out looking to intentionally hurt people. Brutal.
Here comes the boom is your standard NFL video that most non Americans start their journey with.Also we are near the end of the MLB season, the world series is being played now.Plenty of good videos to react to.
It's painful alright. The pads and helmet only prevents broken bones and the most serious of injuries (except concussions) but you feel the full force of the impacts.
Yeah that is what I thought mate. I was sure with the speed of impact and strength of the players it has got to cause some sort of injuries. Thanks for letting me know. Appreciate it
One of the biggest things about wearing the pads or "armor" is, we weaponized them - a helmet that was initially conceived to protect the head then allowed for a guy to turn his body into a missile running at full speed and spearing you with that helmet. Luckily for those of us who played, these types of maneuvers are mostly illegal now but even on my lightest day in terms of hits I still often left the field/pitch with a headache after my brain was jarred back and forth again and again
The average g-force of rugby hits is about between 18-22 g's. In the NFL the average g-force hit can be as high as 63 g's. Enough to turn the average man brains into jelly and crush your insides into pulp. That's because the size of these guys combined with their incredible speed is so lethal. Some of these hits are a bit soft. The best video for this is "NFL Biggest Hits--Here Comes The Boom".
That is a huge difference. It really shows the difference in speed of both sports. For sure my insides would be turned to pulp (probably worse) if I ever got hit by one of those guys haha.
@@mertsalih Yeah, as someone who played as a youth (middle and high school) on both offense and defense, the hits in this video are nothing special. You've already posted 'here comes the boom' at this time (I came to this vid to watch before watching that one) and most of the tackles in this video are love taps. To answer your question, yes the hits do hurt, especially if you get hit away from the padded areas. But when hit properly on the pads (something that players are heavily trained in both giving and taking hits properly) it's more like a hard slap. Sharp pain that fades quickly.
@@kovac2527 Absolutely. What people who don't watch the NFL also don't understand is that pads hurt. They chafe, the weight of it wears you down, and all of a players body isn't covered. Taking a helmet or pads to the gut, to the thighs, legs or back hurts like hell. Players also do their best to tackle you in the chest legally, then ride their helmets up into a players unprotected chin, all perfectly legal...and don't catch you fingers in another players face guard. They'll snap like twigs. However, pads or not, it's the concussion of the force that rattles your brain around in your skull causing concussions.
A lot of these are what they call Hospital Passes. It's when the QB throws a pass to a guy usually in the middle of the field and it sets the receiver up to get smoked.
A lot of football players suffer life-long effects of brain damage. It is genuinely brutal. The padding actually allows them to hit harder, the same way boxing gloves were invented to protect your hands, not to soften blows.
@@_itsmunah We cant know the exact number because CTE can only be proven with a brain autopsy after death, so the vast majority will go untested while alive. However, Boston University did a study on 376 football players, and 345 was diagnosed with CTE though, which is 91.7%. Other studies have been performed as well, and at multiple levels play (NFL, college, and highschool), and every single level shows VERY high amounts of patients with CTE. So yes, we can conclude its "a lot". Feel free to google the research paper and read it yourself, its publicly available.
I played football in college as a receiver, and coached for a while after. I've both hit people and been hit by people extremely hard. The padding helps, and there's a weird sort of thickening of the hide that happens the more you train and play, but the main thing keeping the pain away is the adrenaline. Clean, hard, hits rarely hurt in the moment unless there's a concussion or some type of ligament sprain or tear. Every once in a great while, you'll get the wind knocked out of you. To answer one of your questions about if the person doing the hitting is getting hurt. Sometimes, but 99 out a 100 times, it's better to be the hammer than the nail.
Growing up playing football as a Tight End and Defensive End. getting hit is just part of the game. As a ball carrier you have to know how to “fall” and put yourself in a position where the hit isn’t as bad. Just a normal tackle where your knee or elbow hits the ground first; is the best case when getting hit. Worst case is any hit around the head, neck and back. Truly any hit you can’t see coming.
Thanks for the reaction. These plays are not uncommon, but they don't happen every play. Offensive plays are not designed to leave players totally exposed to be hit on their blindside. You correctly commented upon some of the players jumping back up immediately after getting knocked halfway to tomorrow. I do not mean to disparage the game of soccer, but the fortitude we must display in football means we have to get back up. Writhing in pain is a sign of weakness and gives incentive to the opposing team to hit even harder. I appreciate the ball movement and passing angles of soccer, but I abhor players acting like they're about to die from a gunshot and then jump up as soon as the ref pulls a red card. I just don't understand that. But I'm sure the acceptance of the level of violence in American football and some of our behavior seems bizarre as well. If you rewatch the video, you'll notice yellow cloth flags flying into view after many of the hits. That means the hits were illegal. I would bet that a number of these hits actually caused the league Commissioner to fine the offending players. Multiple fines can result in suspension. A player cannot lead with the crown (the top of the helmet) to hit an opponent. Neither may a player use the shoulder pad to target the opponent's head. All head to head targeting is taboo. But it's such a bang bang game, big hits are inevitable. I played at a small high school in Kansas. That's about the lowest rated level in America. I suffered a concussion, as did many of my teammates. We had a number of broken bones. Sprained ankles and wrists were a dime a dozen. The bruising on my arms and my constant limp during my senior season, caused my mother some heartache. One of my teammates took a helmet to the groin and had to have a testicle removed. You also made a fantastic point about the amount of gear and the rise in safety technology. Theoretically, the equipment makes it safer. But because the equipment is better, the players depend upon it more and achieve higher speeds for impact than is safe. Because the rules protect the quarterback and receivers (the players catching the ball) more and more they also tend to put themselves into more perilously exposed positions. I appreciate your honest response to what you see.
The lineman stand at 6tf 5in and can run 40yds in 4.5sec. the ball carriers are often trained as sprinters.. many Olympic 100yd runners play these positions
I played for 22 years. The only part that ever really hurt was getting into "game shape". Basically that's the first time you're going full contact in practice before the season starts. Before that generally there's a week or two of walkthroughs in shorts and t-shirts. Those first few days of pads are constant day long headaches and shoulder pain. I played kind of a bandit position on defense on my teams, I was technically our middle linebacker but they let me read and line up where I wanted after we were set, did that most of my career. I played running back in high school as well as bandit. I was a "two way player", you don't really get to do that in college or higher so I stuck with defense because I like hitting people. I've broken all my fingers a bunch, one is still not fully straight because I just taped 2 fingers together. I never actually hurt a knee until I was fully done and retired and stepped in a hole my dog dug. Knees, shoulders, and ankles are common injuries. It's gross but infected toes from your toes constantly smashing into the front of your cleats during change of direction and stopping quickly. I busted my radius and ulna and my tibia and fibula in back to back games. I thought I'd use my cast as weapon and took a bad chop block. I never really realized how often I was in autopilot during games until I really started to pay attention to film in college and there'd be entire series I didn't remember. BUT, unless you break your femur or get a compound fracture you don't really notice the pain because your adrenaline is so high constantly. My favorite example of this is when I was a freshman I made a tackle near the goal line and everybody it seemed like or felt like dogpiled and refs were pealing people off the pile and I was saying "get the fuck off me!" and it got down a few players and someone on my team has their leg on my facemask and I'm trying to move them but there's still someone on us. The guy gets off us and I realize nope that's not a teammate, I dislocated my leg lol. I slapped it down off my face and I was fine, it went right back in. There's so much adrenaline and testosterone is peak in games, you don't feel a whole lot. Usually when you watch guys get injured, knocked out, etc and they have to be carted off they're probably in some pain depending on the injury but it's more about their career and team if you see tears. You hate letting your team down.
Yea it did used to be more brutal. They make new rules about tackling all the time for safety reasons but they made a few big ones in the early 2000’s about helmet to helmet contact and grabbing shoulder pads that made a big difference.
I played football for two years in HIGHSCHOOL at ages 16 and 17. I walked away with a broken pinky finger, broken ankle, a couple concussions and a torn ACL. HIGHSCHOOL! It's brutal.
I played american football at school at tight end and defensive end, I got hit a lot. The pads don't really protect you too much when you get hit, that shit just hurts no matter what. They've gotten better but they really protect you when you hit other people LOL. So if you can square up and deliver a counter hit you can normally mitigate some of it but if you don't see someone you're just going to get whalloped and it's gunna hurt like a bitch. The padding is really designed to protect your shoulders so you wanna get your shoulder under the other guy's even if you're the one getting hit.
While rugby you can hit with your own body and weight, there are limits to the size of people In American football, people weighing upwards of 350 pounds can sprint at you nearing 22 mph and hit you with full force The pads don't stop all the force, they are just there so that you can hit everyone else as hard as possible and they don't die.
Love the reactions! Never played passed the high school level, but I did play running back all 4 years of high school. Never suffered any serious injuries or took any hits like in the video obviously, but I definitely got my bell rang at least once a game. 🤩 It hurts lol sometimes even after a couple of days.
every single one of these hits is probably hard enough to put your average person within an inch of their lives, if they were to get hit. I played high school football and after every single game you wake up the next day feeling like you been in a car crash. every inch of your body is in pain when you move. Football is seriously physical.
You were spot on. While the pads and helmets help reduce injury in some cases they make the hits more severe. Especially helmet to helmet contact which is outright banned but does often happen.
"There's got to be some serious injuries in this sport as well" (Austin Collie in the background getting his brain stem knocked into the third row of seats)
They say being hit by one of these guys is like being hit by a car going 25 to 30 miles per hr. It doesn’t matter where you’re sitting in the stadium, you can hear every hit on the field. It’s awesome!!!
You should react to the NFL top 100 Videos of the top 100 players, Maybe not all unless you want to but seeing highlights of certain players voted by other plays would be cool to see!
So as some who played safety in college the hits on catches for the most part are to make sure the receiver or whom ever is attempting to make the catch cant secure it or to dislodge the ball from the player, but i will also say that if someone came across the middle of the field I would try to flatten them to send a message to the qb that hes gonna get his players killed throwing it right there.
Yeah you are so right. I am in awe of the speed of American Footballers. They are explosive and it is quite a sight to see how fully committed they are going into tackles at that speed.
I hope you'll get into college (university) football too. Student athletes are often more fun to watch than professional. The support by the community of each team is amazing. Tens of thousands attend, some more than a hundred thousand, and many, many others watch on TV.
Man getting hit like that makes you forget where you are for a sec, I’ve been there a few times. And it hurts if you’re the one getting hit, but if you’re the one hitting it doesn’t hurt as much.
A lot of these plays came before a couple important rule changes, which are meant to protect players. Defenders can no longer leave their feet and/or lead with their helmet when tackling. They also cannot aim for the ball carrier's helmet.
Yeah it hurts. Often, adrenaline will temper most of the pain/soreness for a few hours but after taking a hit like this (aka getting decked) there is always a tingly sensation with some immediate head and neck pain in my experience. PS Just discovered your channel Mert, and I'm hooked. Will subscribe
sometimes those really hard hits don't hurt as much as it appears as long as its not to the head and there are no awkward twisting when you land. I usually got hurt catching my leg or ankle underneath somebody or getting twisted somehow more than solid hits. A solid hit can hurt for sure, but it goes away quickly (usually).
Besides the pads and all that, the reason why you're taught to hit so hard in football is that it is literally a game of inches. You get three downs to make only ten yards (or you're forced to punt the ball and give it up to the other side), and that space is fought over for every inch. So when you see some guy getting smacked and that completely stops his forward progress, that small amount of space refused can mean the difference between continuing with a drive or having to punt. Even if you're on first down, that little bit may determine that extra inch needed to make a first down in consequent plays).
@10:02 You have to know who and WHAT Jerome Bettis is to understand the significance of that moment. Bettis was a tank. It wouldn't have happened that way if Bettis had another 1/4 second to set his feet. Nonetheless, a one-man tackle of Bettis didn't happen very often.
American football is definitely more physical than rugby, specifically because of the pads. It provides a confidence of sorts that you’ll be okay. Nonetheless in highschool i had massive bruise going from my armpit down to my hip, also a concussion, that’s when i knew i wasn’t meant for the field.
Being a Safety in football… well, I don’t play much because I’m not very good, but I’ve been hit like this, and delivered like this and it hurt. I am a young one and have already been concussed about 5 times playing football. 2 brief KOs, and 3 smaller, less noticeable ones. Concussions can be from ringing in the ears, stars, dizziness after a big hit, to KOs, or even death (believe me, it can happen)
I played inside and outside linebacker. It looks way different at ground level obviously. Idk why but it's fun to play kill the man with the ball at 100% for an hour without getting in trouble.
Ive seen the average rugby player. Some are naturally bigger than a regular guy but in football, they actually pump iron until they are rock solid and Hercules sized. I would love to see a rugby player join the NFL or even college and get his opinion. These football players are animals. Rugby players are tough guys but they just dont seem to get the speed like the football players get up to. Great reaction mate
You could say that the padding and helmet makes us more reckless with our body when making a tackle. We believe we’ll be protected from injury when making hits and tackles
They added helmets back in the day because they were dying from broken necks and head injuries , so with the added helmets, you 1st get a concussion then you die. Taking a hit from a 250-300 lb line men is just part of the game you eventually get use to it ( some times I think these guys train off season by jumping in front of moving busses then when they get bored with that they switch to moving trains) .
I played against a team in high school and they weee instructed to hide brass knuckles to use against us and hit us in the stomach mid tackle where it can’t be seen
The NFL plays at a speed and level of intensity that is unmatched even in college football. American Football is a brutal sport all the way back to its beginnings. Rugby, though played without pads and safety gear, doesn’t compare to NFL level force. If you’re ever able to attend an American college football game as well as an NFL game you’ll witness play like no other sport. Buy the best seats you can afford and as close to the field as possible. The hits are hard, the trash talk, the mind boggling physical condition of these athletes is unparalleled.
If there is any doubt about how absolutely devastating the NFL can be, you have to watch the videos of the most violent NFL game in history. The 1984 game between my Chicago Bears and the then Oakland Raiders. Two teams that played more to hurt each other than to win the game! A must watch!
I like how you caught that the most brutal hits were from the older, grainier videos. They've adjusted the rules to prevent CTE(brain damage). The problem with padding and helmets is that you can deliver much more powerful hits than if you were padless. That being said, rugby is the probably the hardest sport I've ever seen. If you made players switch sports, football players would tap out playing rugby before the rugby players would tap out playing football.
3:36 yes it is painful when you get hit like that. A lot of the time you'll get hit where the pads don't protect. And concussions are a very common thing in football.
In my experience, the pads do a great job of protecting you from most hits, but the headshots always hurt. Helmets are better than when I played 20 years ago but physics says that if your brain hits your skull, you're going to have a bad time.
It hurts more if you hesitate. If you initiate the hit and don't worry about the pain it doesn't hurt as much (don't get me wrong, it still hurts like hell to deliver a hit).
i played football from pop warner (6 years old) up to semi-pro ball. yes. it hurts. the pads help reduce (but do not prevent) injuries. even in my prime, it could take me 3 or 4 days to recover from a typical game. if i was busted up pretty good, it could take a couple of weeks to make a full recovery. injuries can take you out for months, or permanently. i was almost exclusively a defensive lineman. and often, i was my team's "executioner". which meant it was my job to injure players on the opposing team to get them off of the field. i was good at it too. i was good at being bad.
React to some highlights from the 1972 Miami Dolphins. That was the only undefeated team in the superbowl era, 17-0. They were a defensive and running oriented team.
While playing high school football, my under shirts were shredded constantly. Yes they hurt, even when you're the hitter. Instead of a localized hit, the pads disperse the sensation
When you get hit in the head, the helmet helps from the outside. But the part that causes the concussion is when the skull and the brain make contact. That's where the real damage is.
not sure if youll see this but back in the day the game was like the roman colosseum. the new orleans saints got busted for head hunting which was pay put for taking players out of the game with injuries, all the teams use to do it
Even our basketball players typically make more physical contact and more agile moves during a game than rugby players do (snapped femurs, bloody noses, backward ankles). No one gives up a loss easily. They use it as fuel to make better plays next time. The goal is to win, any way you can and shine while doing it…. At least in Football, Basketball and Baseball.
The pads actually make the game MORE brutal. The players feel a false sense of being invulnerable, which allows them to put themselves into danger. One argument to try to limit concussions in the league is that they should actually REMOVE the facemask, as it would force the players to consider themselves more vulnerable, therefore making them less likely to lead into tackles with their heads.
Even with the pads it hurts lol Football is a collision sport where Rugby is a contact sport both require toughness. A great way to explain it is compare it to Boxing/MMA.(Football) vs bare knuckle boxing (rugby) from the outside looking in bare knuckle fighting looks tougher but fighters with gloves throw way harder punches because they have less fear of breaking their own hands or wrists.
AMERICAN 🏈 culture is real especially in High school where your performance has a off the field effect like losing a girlfriend because you didn't score a TD or make starting roster or Varsity
It's definitely painful, the pads worn on the body only cover the shoulders and parts of the chest and back (with optional rib and lower back pads for certain positions) and the helmets dont do as much as you think, the shock absorbed through the impact still leads to head trauma.
Back in the day the rules on tackling were a little more lenient…. But people like Brian Dawkins, ray lewis, ed reed, Sean Taylor that’s just a few of the biggest hitters in the nfl
Played high school football but gave it up when everyone got way bigger than me. Do the hits hurt? Sometimes and sometimes not. The collisions usually dont hurt you just get your bell rung,it's when you hyperextend something that really hurts.
Grew up playing American football and played rugby in college. My teammates and I were all agreed that rugby was a wimpy version of football. Americans are raised to be tough, we're a Warrior Nation, which is why no one messes with us. Think of us as 21st Century Romans.
So ive played a few years for a youth league bcux i mainly went to school in the city area so there were hardly schools with land for a field. So my first ever game playing, mid season and i HARDLYY had any practice lol. Just 2 practices for my first ever game. Nonetheless, i had to tackle someone who was maybe at most 5 more inches taller and 20lb heavier than i was, i dont remember it hurting. Just the recovering of trying to catch ur breath. Mayb sometimes if ur hand/arm gets pinned when tackling or landing but, its the blindside hits that can really hurt. Normal tackles shouldnt hurt unless its an injury ykk, like too low on the knees and too high in the neck area
One last thing... Just think of it like this... The padding and helmet is NOT for protection from hurting or bad injuries... it's more protection from dying... that's about it! Oh.. and that isn't even 100% .. people have died!
These were pretty mad. All I can say is American footballers are tough. I didn't expect the hits to be so hard in this sport but it makes the sport very exciting. What is the biggest hit you have ever seen? Are there any players who are known for big hits?
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I think the worst hit I ever saw was in 1985, in RFK Stadium te Redskins vs the Giants. It is the time when Joe Thiesmann broke his leg. Then there is the, 1977 Vikings Fran Tarkenton vs. the Bengals, Fran set a one-game passing accuracy record the broke his leg. Warning; Watch only if you have a strong/ empty stomach. Enjoy the nightmares that are the NFL.
Ronnie Lott is an older player from back when they were allowed to kill each other, he was so hardcore that he had doctors amputate a broken finger so he could play in the playoffs.
Look up ray Lewis highlights or some Lawrence Taylor
Jack Tatum blindsides Daryl Stingley. Stingley was paralyzed for the rest of his life. American football in the 1970's was a totally different game compared to today. Players went out looking to intentionally hurt people. Brutal.
Here comes the boom is your standard NFL video that most non Americans start their journey with.Also we are near the end of the MLB season, the world series is being played now.Plenty of good videos to react to.
Ok will have a look for Here Comes The Boom and make a reaction to that soon. Will also check out some MLB videos too. Thanks!!
It's painful alright. The pads and helmet only prevents broken bones and the most serious of injuries (except concussions) but you feel the full force of the impacts.
Yeah that is what I thought mate. I was sure with the speed of impact and strength of the players it has got to cause some sort of injuries. Thanks for letting me know. Appreciate it
@@mertsalih It's like getting hit by a truck. Doesn't matter how much armor you're wearing, you're still going to feel it.
@@mertsalih you might get the wind knocked out of you but when you get adrenaline you can really shake those hits off
@@Josephhyonworst part is when you get the wind knocked out of you. Then you have to run back to the line for another play
@@mertsalih honestly the pads make it worse. They give players the illusion of safety, therefore they go in full speed and just destroy each other
One of the biggest things about wearing the pads or "armor" is, we weaponized them - a helmet that was initially conceived to protect the head then allowed for a guy to turn his body into a missile running at full speed and spearing you with that helmet. Luckily for those of us who played, these types of maneuvers are mostly illegal now but even on my lightest day in terms of hits I still often left the field/pitch with a headache after my brain was jarred back and forth again and again
The average g-force of rugby hits is about between 18-22 g's. In the NFL the average g-force hit can be as high as 63 g's. Enough to turn the average man brains into jelly and crush your insides into pulp. That's because the size of these guys combined with their incredible speed is so lethal. Some of these hits are a bit soft. The best video for this is "NFL Biggest Hits--Here Comes The Boom".
That is a huge difference. It really shows the difference in speed of both sports. For sure my insides would be turned to pulp (probably worse) if I ever got hit by one of those guys haha.
@@mertsalih Yeah, as someone who played as a youth (middle and high school) on both offense and defense, the hits in this video are nothing special. You've already posted 'here comes the boom' at this time (I came to this vid to watch before watching that one) and most of the tackles in this video are love taps.
To answer your question, yes the hits do hurt, especially if you get hit away from the padded areas. But when hit properly on the pads (something that players are heavily trained in both giving and taking hits properly) it's more like a hard slap. Sharp pain that fades quickly.
And the fact that the players have pads on makes it worse… even more weight going into a guy
@@kovac2527 Absolutely. What people who don't watch the NFL also don't understand is that pads hurt. They chafe, the weight of it wears you down, and all of a players body isn't covered. Taking a helmet or pads to the gut, to the thighs, legs or back hurts like hell. Players also do their best to tackle you in the chest legally, then ride their helmets up into a players unprotected chin, all perfectly legal...and don't catch you fingers in another players face guard. They'll snap like twigs. However, pads or not, it's the concussion of the force that rattles your brain around in your skull causing concussions.
A lot of these are what they call Hospital Passes.
It's when the QB throws a pass to a guy usually in the middle of the field and it sets the receiver up to get smoked.
3:33 when I used to play back on middle school the coaches and my father would always say “hit them harder and you won’t feel a thing”
A lot of football players suffer life-long effects of brain damage. It is genuinely brutal. The padding actually allows them to hit harder, the same way boxing gloves were invented to protect your hands, not to soften blows.
It’s not “a lot” but some do.
@@_itsmunah We cant know the exact number because CTE can only be proven with a brain autopsy after death, so the vast majority will go untested while alive. However, Boston University did a study on 376 football players, and 345 was diagnosed with CTE though, which is 91.7%. Other studies have been performed as well, and at multiple levels play (NFL, college, and highschool), and every single level shows VERY high amounts of patients with CTE. So yes, we can conclude its "a lot". Feel free to google the research paper and read it yourself, its publicly available.
I played football in college as a receiver, and coached for a while after. I've both hit people and been hit by people extremely hard. The padding helps, and there's a weird sort of thickening of the hide that happens the more you train and play, but the main thing keeping the pain away is the adrenaline. Clean, hard, hits rarely hurt in the moment unless there's a concussion or some type of ligament sprain or tear. Every once in a great while, you'll get the wind knocked out of you. To answer one of your questions about if the person doing the hitting is getting hurt. Sometimes, but 99 out a 100 times, it's better to be the hammer than the nail.
As a defensive player, I always dreamed of delivering hits like these
Decleating someone is a great feeling.
When I played you could still lay on a blindside block and headshots. It was absolutely nuts. I'm glad we changed it but man it felt good.
Growing up playing football as a Tight End and Defensive End. getting hit is just part of the game. As a ball carrier you have to know how to “fall” and put yourself in a position where the hit isn’t as bad. Just a normal tackle where your knee or elbow hits the ground first; is the best case when getting hit. Worst case is any hit around the head, neck and back. Truly any hit you can’t see coming.
Thanks for the reaction.
These plays are not uncommon, but they don't happen every play. Offensive plays are not designed to leave players totally exposed to be hit on their blindside.
You correctly commented upon some of the players jumping back up immediately after getting knocked halfway to tomorrow. I do not mean to disparage the game of soccer, but the fortitude we must display in football means we have to get back up. Writhing in pain is a sign of weakness and gives incentive to the opposing team to hit even harder. I appreciate the ball movement and passing angles of soccer, but I abhor players acting like they're about to die from a gunshot and then jump up as soon as the ref pulls a red card. I just don't understand that. But I'm sure the acceptance of the level of violence in American football and some of our behavior seems bizarre as well.
If you rewatch the video, you'll notice yellow cloth flags flying into view after many of the hits. That means the hits were illegal. I would bet that a number of these hits actually caused the league Commissioner to fine the offending players. Multiple fines can result in suspension. A player cannot lead with the crown (the top of the helmet) to hit an opponent. Neither may a player use the shoulder pad to target the opponent's head. All head to head targeting is taboo. But it's such a bang bang game, big hits are inevitable.
I played at a small high school in Kansas. That's about the lowest rated level in America. I suffered a concussion, as did many of my teammates. We had a number of broken bones. Sprained ankles and wrists were a dime a dozen. The bruising on my arms and my constant limp during my senior season, caused my mother some heartache. One of my teammates took a helmet to the groin and had to have a testicle removed.
You also made a fantastic point about the amount of gear and the rise in safety technology. Theoretically, the equipment makes it safer. But because the equipment is better, the players depend upon it more and achieve higher speeds for impact than is safe. Because the rules protect the quarterback and receivers (the players catching the ball) more and more they also tend to put themselves into more perilously exposed positions.
I appreciate your honest response to what you see.
The lineman stand at 6tf 5in and can run 40yds in 4.5sec. the ball carriers are often trained as sprinters.. many Olympic 100yd runners play these positions
I played for 22 years. The only part that ever really hurt was getting into "game shape". Basically that's the first time you're going full contact in practice before the season starts. Before that generally there's a week or two of walkthroughs in shorts and t-shirts. Those first few days of pads are constant day long headaches and shoulder pain. I played kind of a bandit position on defense on my teams, I was technically our middle linebacker but they let me read and line up where I wanted after we were set, did that most of my career. I played running back in high school as well as bandit. I was a "two way player", you don't really get to do that in college or higher so I stuck with defense because I like hitting people. I've broken all my fingers a bunch, one is still not fully straight because I just taped 2 fingers together. I never actually hurt a knee until I was fully done and retired and stepped in a hole my dog dug. Knees, shoulders, and ankles are common injuries. It's gross but infected toes from your toes constantly smashing into the front of your cleats during change of direction and stopping quickly. I busted my radius and ulna and my tibia and fibula in back to back games. I thought I'd use my cast as weapon and took a bad chop block. I never really realized how often I was in autopilot during games until I really started to pay attention to film in college and there'd be entire series I didn't remember. BUT, unless you break your femur or get a compound fracture you don't really notice the pain because your adrenaline is so high constantly. My favorite example of this is when I was a freshman I made a tackle near the goal line and everybody it seemed like or felt like dogpiled and refs were pealing people off the pile and I was saying "get the fuck off me!" and it got down a few players and someone on my team has their leg on my facemask and I'm trying to move them but there's still someone on us. The guy gets off us and I realize nope that's not a teammate, I dislocated my leg lol. I slapped it down off my face and I was fine, it went right back in. There's so much adrenaline and testosterone is peak in games, you don't feel a whole lot. Usually when you watch guys get injured, knocked out, etc and they have to be carted off they're probably in some pain depending on the injury but it's more about their career and team if you see tears. You hate letting your team down.
Yea it did used to be more brutal. They make new rules about tackling all the time for safety reasons but they made a few big ones in the early 2000’s about helmet to helmet contact and grabbing shoulder pads that made a big difference.
You need to watch the Tennessee vs Alabama game!! Pleaseee
Yes they used to be more violent, the league has implemented alot of safety measures in recent years.
I played football for two years in HIGHSCHOOL at ages 16 and 17. I walked away with a broken pinky finger, broken ankle, a couple concussions and a torn ACL. HIGHSCHOOL! It's brutal.
I played american football at school at tight end and defensive end, I got hit a lot. The pads don't really protect you too much when you get hit, that shit just hurts no matter what. They've gotten better but they really protect you when you hit other people LOL. So if you can square up and deliver a counter hit you can normally mitigate some of it but if you don't see someone you're just going to get whalloped and it's gunna hurt like a bitch. The padding is really designed to protect your shoulders so you wanna get your shoulder under the other guy's even if you're the one getting hit.
While rugby you can hit with your own body and weight, there are limits to the size of people
In American football, people weighing upwards of 350 pounds can sprint at you nearing 22 mph and hit you with full force
The pads don't stop all the force, they are just there so that you can hit everyone else as hard as possible and they don't die.
Love the reactions!
Never played passed the high school level, but I did play running back all 4 years of high school. Never suffered any serious injuries or took any hits like in the video obviously, but I definitely got my bell rang at least once a game. 🤩 It hurts lol sometimes even after a couple of days.
every single one of these hits is probably hard enough to put your average person within an inch of their lives, if they were to get hit. I played high school football and after every single game you wake up the next day feeling like you been in a car crash. every inch of your body is in pain when you move. Football is seriously physical.
You were spot on. While the pads and helmets help reduce injury in some cases they make the hits more severe. Especially helmet to helmet contact which is outright banned but does often happen.
"There's got to be some serious injuries in this sport as well" (Austin Collie in the background getting his brain stem knocked into the third row of seats)
They say being hit by one of these guys is like being hit by a car going 25 to 30 miles per hr. It doesn’t matter where you’re sitting in the stadium, you can hear every hit on the field. It’s awesome!!!
You should react to the NFL top 100 Videos of the top 100 players, Maybe not all unless you want to but seeing highlights of certain players voted by other plays would be cool to see!
First time watching and you hit the nail on the head. Pads and helmets are there for protection but they become a weapon.
So as some who played safety in college the hits on catches for the most part are to make sure the receiver or whom ever is attempting to make the catch cant secure it or to dislodge the ball from the player, but i will also say that if someone came across the middle of the field I would try to flatten them to send a message to the qb that hes gonna get his players killed throwing it right there.
These big hits hurt a lot less when you see them coming and can brace for it, but when you get cracked from behind those hurt like hell
Football players hit much harder than rugby players and it’s because of the speed at which they do it.
Yeah you are so right. I am in awe of the speed of American Footballers. They are explosive and it is quite a sight to see how fully committed they are going into tackles at that speed.
I hope you'll get into college (university) football too. Student athletes are often more fun to watch than professional. The support by the community of each team is amazing. Tens of thousands attend, some more than a hundred thousand, and many, many others watch on TV.
Man getting hit like that makes you forget where you are for a sec, I’ve been there a few times. And it hurts if you’re the one getting hit, but if you’re the one hitting it doesn’t hurt as much.
The hands making "a fit" means the player has a concussion.
A lot of these plays came before a couple important rule changes, which are meant to protect players. Defenders can no longer leave their feet and/or lead with their helmet when tackling. They also cannot aim for the ball carrier's helmet.
Would love to see you do a reaction of NFL hits vs NHL hits
The pads don't stop the pain, they keep you alive.
Yeah it hurts. Often, adrenaline will temper most of the pain/soreness for a few hours but after taking a hit like this (aka getting decked) there is always a tingly sensation with some immediate head and neck pain in my experience.
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sometimes those really hard hits don't hurt as much as it appears as long as its not to the head and there are no awkward twisting when you land. I usually got hurt catching my leg or ankle underneath somebody or getting twisted somehow more than solid hits. A solid hit can hurt for sure, but it goes away quickly (usually).
Besides the pads and all that, the reason why you're taught to hit so hard in football is that it is literally a game of inches. You get three downs to make only ten yards (or you're forced to punt the ball and give it up to the other side), and that space is fought over for every inch. So when you see some guy getting smacked and that completely stops his forward progress, that small amount of space refused can mean the difference between continuing with a drive or having to punt. Even if you're on first down, that little bit may determine that extra inch needed to make a first down in consequent plays).
These types of tackles absolutely are in every game. :)
@10:02 You have to know who and WHAT Jerome Bettis is to understand the significance of that moment. Bettis was a tank. It wouldn't have happened that way if Bettis had another 1/4 second to set his feet. Nonetheless, a one-man tackle of Bettis didn't happen very often.
American football is definitely more physical than rugby, specifically because of the pads. It provides a confidence of sorts that you’ll be okay. Nonetheless in highschool i had massive bruise going from my armpit down to my hip, also a concussion, that’s when i knew i wasn’t meant for the field.
Being a Safety in football… well, I don’t play much because I’m not very good, but I’ve been hit like this, and delivered like this and it hurt. I am a young one and have already been concussed about 5 times playing football. 2 brief KOs, and 3 smaller, less noticeable ones. Concussions can be from ringing in the ears, stars, dizziness after a big hit, to KOs, or even death (believe me, it can happen)
It hurts like hell. Especially the next few days afterward.
I played inside and outside linebacker. It looks way different at ground level obviously. Idk why but it's fun to play kill the man with the ball at 100% for an hour without getting in trouble.
Ive seen the average rugby player. Some are naturally bigger than a regular guy but in football, they actually pump iron until they are rock solid and Hercules sized. I would love to see a rugby player join the NFL or even college and get his opinion. These football players are animals. Rugby players are tough guys but they just dont seem to get the speed like the football players get up to. Great reaction mate
Absolutely 100% tackles happen every game.. Not all highlights worthy, but ABSOLUTELY enjoyable every game!
You could say that the padding and helmet makes us more reckless with our body when making a tackle. We believe we’ll be protected from injury when making hits and tackles
I love his passion for learning about America. We’re a weird country, LOTS of negatives but god damn do we have football
It definitely hurts the pads can make it worse from the shock and vibration
I just got into the NFL this year. Man the hits are absolutely bonkers sometimes.
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that catch at 6:53 was made by one of my favorite receivers, Anquan Boldin. you should check him out, the man is as solid as a mountain
As someone who plays American football with pads it hurts so bad when you get hit by someone bigger
The pads and helmets are kinda like boxing gloves. They allow the players to be more reckless with how they attack the opponent.
They added helmets back in the day because they were dying from broken necks and head injuries , so with the added helmets, you 1st get a concussion then you die. Taking a hit from a 250-300 lb line men is just part of the game you eventually get use to it ( some times I think these guys train off season by jumping in front of moving busses then when they get bored with that they switch to moving trains) .
I played against a team in high school and they weee instructed to hide brass knuckles to use against us and hit us in the stomach mid tackle where it can’t be seen
The NFL plays at a speed and level of intensity that is unmatched even in college football. American Football is a brutal sport all the way back to its beginnings. Rugby, though played without pads and safety gear, doesn’t compare to NFL level force. If you’re ever able to attend an American college football game as well as an NFL game you’ll witness play like no other sport. Buy the best seats you can afford and as close to the field as possible. The hits are hard, the trash talk, the mind boggling physical condition of these athletes is unparalleled.
If there is any doubt about how absolutely devastating the NFL can be, you have to watch the videos of the most violent NFL game in history. The 1984 game between my Chicago Bears and the then Oakland Raiders. Two teams that played more to hurt each other than to win the game! A must watch!
The grainy ones are the best because there was no flags against it also the body bag game happened in grainy footage to
Hits like the ones in this video hurt quite a bit for both people most of the time
I like how you caught that the most brutal hits were from the older, grainier videos. They've adjusted the rules to prevent CTE(brain damage). The problem with padding and helmets is that you can deliver much more powerful hits than if you were padless. That being said, rugby is the probably the hardest sport I've ever seen. If you made players switch sports, football players would tap out playing rugby before the rugby players would tap out playing football.
3:36 yes it is painful when you get hit like that. A lot of the time you'll get hit where the pads don't protect. And concussions are a very common thing in football.
More than painful its the jarring of the skull and the bones. Still it does hurt. But you can't let them know you're hurt.
In my experience, the pads do a great job of protecting you from most hits, but the headshots always hurt. Helmets are better than when I played 20 years ago but physics says that if your brain hits your skull, you're going to have a bad time.
the padding definitely makes it more violent, not less. Nobody would try most of these hits without pads.
It definitely hurts so many times I e had headaches or bruised ribs😂
It hurts more if you hesitate. If you initiate the hit and don't worry about the pain it doesn't hurt as much (don't get me wrong, it still hurts like hell to deliver a hit).
Amen.
These tackles still happen in American Football, but they are pentalizing it more and more to prevent injuries
Tackles like these are rare today with rule.changes having been made to help protect the players
i played football from pop warner (6 years old) up to semi-pro ball. yes. it hurts. the pads help reduce (but do not prevent) injuries. even in my prime, it could take me 3 or 4 days to recover from a typical game. if i was busted up pretty good, it could take a couple of weeks to make a full recovery. injuries can take you out for months, or permanently.
i was almost exclusively a defensive lineman. and often, i was my team's "executioner". which meant it was my job to injure players on the opposing team to get them off of the field. i was good at it too. i was good at being bad.
React to some highlights from the 1972 Miami Dolphins. That was the only undefeated team in the superbowl era, 17-0. They were a defensive and running oriented team.
While playing high school football, my under shirts were shredded constantly. Yes they hurt, even when you're the hitter. Instead of a localized hit, the pads disperse the sensation
When you get hit in the head, the helmet helps from the outside. But the part that causes the concussion is when the skull and the brain make contact. That's where the real damage is.
not sure if youll see this but back in the day the game was like the roman colosseum. the new orleans saints got busted for head hunting which was pay put for taking players out of the game with injuries, all the teams use to do it
Its a collision sport. And WE LOVE THAT SHITTT
Next video: watch career highlights of Barry Sanders. A legend and in my opinion the most electrifying runner with the football in the sport’s history
Even our basketball players typically make more physical contact and more agile moves during a game than rugby players do (snapped femurs, bloody noses, backward ankles).
No one gives up a loss easily. They use it as fuel to make better plays next time. The goal is to win, any way you can and shine while doing it…. At least in Football, Basketball and Baseball.
When you said something about brutal injuries some people get paralyzed playing American football.
It’s definitely painful, sometimes it felt like the pads and helmet didn’t protect me at all
The pads actually make the game MORE brutal. The players feel a false sense of being invulnerable, which allows them to put themselves into danger.
One argument to try to limit concussions in the league is that they should actually REMOVE the facemask, as it would force the players to consider themselves more vulnerable, therefore making them less likely to lead into tackles with their heads.
Even with the pads it hurts lol Football is a collision sport where Rugby is a contact sport both require toughness.
A great way to explain it is compare it to Boxing/MMA.(Football) vs bare knuckle boxing (rugby) from the outside looking in bare knuckle fighting looks tougher but fighters with gloves throw way harder punches because they have less fear of breaking their own hands or wrists.
There have been some bad injuries. Crazy leg, back, and neck breaks. some leading to paralysis. it’s scary to see live
The pads don't do anything except prevent bone damage but the impacts is very very painful
It hurts like hell lol. But hitting the other guy is a high
belive it or not its not really a pain but more of a fast jolt with a combo of getting rocked and winded
AMERICAN 🏈 culture is real especially in High school where your performance has a off the field effect like losing a girlfriend because you didn't score a TD or make starting roster or Varsity
It's definitely painful, the pads worn on the body only cover the shoulders and parts of the chest and back (with optional rib and lower back pads for certain positions) and the helmets dont do as much as you think, the shock absorbed through the impact still leads to head trauma.
I’ve had multiple people in my high school league die from injuries
Yeah it hurts when you get popped like that😂
Back in the day the rules on tackling were a little more lenient…. But people like Brian Dawkins, ray lewis, ed reed, Sean Taylor that’s just a few of the biggest hitters in the nfl
Played high school football but gave it up when everyone got way bigger than me.
Do the hits hurt? Sometimes and sometimes not. The collisions usually dont hurt you just get your bell rung,it's when you hyperextend something that really hurts.
I’m sure someone already stated it but,
Rugby is a contact sport
Football is a collision sport
Waaaayyyy more brutal than rugby. To answer your question. The pads just help the impact.
Grew up playing American football and played rugby in college. My teammates and I were all agreed that rugby was a wimpy version of football. Americans are raised to be tough, we're a Warrior Nation, which is why no one messes with us. Think of us as 21st Century Romans.
Yeah it looks like American Football is just much quicker and more intense than Rugby. Really enjoying finding out about it
Unfortunately not so much anymore, we’ve gone soft for the most part
I played football in Alabama and Texas... Every play hurts.
I play high school football. I’ve took my share of hits and it only hurts for a little
Playing American football 🏈 is like surviving a car crash, that last 2.5hrs..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠
So ive played a few years for a youth league bcux i mainly went to school in the city area so there were hardly schools with land for a field. So my first ever game playing, mid season and i HARDLYY had any practice lol. Just 2 practices for my first ever game. Nonetheless, i had to tackle someone who was maybe at most 5 more inches taller and 20lb heavier than i was, i dont remember it hurting. Just the recovering of trying to catch ur breath. Mayb sometimes if ur hand/arm gets pinned when tackling or landing but, its the blindside hits that can really hurt. Normal tackles shouldnt hurt unless its an injury ykk, like too low on the knees and too high in the neck area
Back in the good ol days!!
One last thing... Just think of it like this... The padding and helmet is NOT for protection from hurting or bad injuries... it's more protection from dying... that's about it! Oh.. and that isn't even 100% .. people have died!