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[unassuming]

What NFL player inspired the league rule against using a helmet as a weapon?

Jack Tatum

Nope

 

[Anbarandy]

What NFL player inspired the league rule against using a helmet as a weapon?

This a murky question as there are different penalties and avenues to use the helmet as a weapon.

"Spearing" - leading with the helmet while using the body a "spear" to strike an opponent

"Helmet to head" - leading with the helmet to strike an opponent

"Targeting"

"Targeting a defenseless layer"

And then there is Myles Garrett who took helmet in hand to beat Mason Rudolph. Is it he you are talking about?

 

[eddie kerr]

This a murky question as there are different penalties and avenues to use the helmet as a weapon.

"Spearing" - leading with the helmet while using the body a "spear" to strike an opponent

"Helmet to head" - leading with the helmet to strike an opponent

"Targeting"

"Targeting a defenseless layer"

And then there is Myles Garrett who took helmet in hand to beat Mason Rudolph. Is it he you are talking about?

Not to be confused with Mason Rudolph, PGA golfer in the 1950s and 60s. LOL.

 

[unassuming]

What NFL player inspired the league rule against using a helmet as a weapon?

This a murky question as there are different penalties and avenues to use the helmet as a weapon.

"Spearing" - leading with the helmet while using the body a "spear" to strike an opponent

"Helmet to head" - leading with the helmet to strike an opponent

"Targeting"

"Targeting a defenseless layer"

And then there is Myles Garrett who took helmet in hand to beat Mason Rudolph. Is it he you are talking about?

There is a specific rule, but the Garrett incident did not inspire this rule, another player from the 70's took helmet off opponent and threw it at him.

...........and the answer is Lyle Alzado

The NFL actually has a specific rule about using a helmet as a weapon

Something to note in the case of Myles Garrett.

ftw.usatoday.com

 

[K Douglas]

So if you exclude to 89-90 seaspn, Stastny wins 986 to 950

Here are the definitive numbers. You can't count the points in the 1989-90 season that began on Jan 1, 1990. Stastny outscored Kurri by 16 points.

1980s NHL Scoring Leaders

NHL scoring leaders during the 1980s. NHL stats leaders in the decade spanning from 1980 to 1989.

www.quanthockey.com

 

[K Douglas]

RA Dickey was the last knuckleballer for the Jays, who are the 4 other KBers that have played for them?

Tom Candiotti and Phil Niekro I remember. Are the others perhaps in the Jays farm system or did they actually play in a game with the big club?

 

[K Douglas]

What Leaf has been selected to the most all star teams, (1st or 2nd team)?

Borje Salming

 

[unassuming]

QUOTE="unassuming, post: 6977953, member: 257585"]
What Leaf has been selected to the most all star teams, (1st or 2nd team)?
[/QUOTE]

Borje Salming

Salming is one, Tim Horton and The Big M also share the record at 6 selections

 

[unassuming]

RA Dickey was the last knuckleballer for the Jays, who are the 4 other KBers that have played for them?

Tom Candiotti and Phil Niekro I remember. Are the others perhaps in the Jays farm system or did they actually play in a game with the big club?

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Candiotti and Niekro are correct, there are actually 3 others; Ryan Feierabend, Tomo Ohka, and Josh Banks, they all played with the Jays.

 

[K Douglas]

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Candiotti and Niekro are correct, there are actually 3 others; Ryan Feierabend, Tomo Ohka, and Josh Banks, they all played with the Jays.

I don't recall Ohka being a knuckleballer. Feierabend I faintly recall. Josh Banks I have no clue who he is.

 

[unassuming]

I don't recall Ohka being a knuckleballer. Feierabend I faintly recall. Josh Banks I have no clue who he is.

Before being a Jay, Ohka wasn't a KBer. His career started to fade, but he taught himself how to throw the KB, he was invited to Jays camp in 2014, but didn't make it out of spring training, still technically a Jay.

Banks pitched only 7 1/3 innings in 2007 for Jays.

 

[K Douglas]

Who is the only other player besides Wayne Gretzky to be the sole playing member of his class inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?

 

[unassuming]

Mats Sundin holds the Leaf record for most consecutive 20 goals seasons at 13, whose record of 10 did he break?

 

[downbound123]

Mats Sundin holds the Leaf record for most consecutive 20 goals seasons at 13, whose record of 10 did he break?

Ron Ellis

 

[unassuming]

Ron Ellis

Correct!

 

[Insidious Von]

What NFL player inspired the league rule against using a helmet as a weapon?

George Atkinson

 

[unassuming]

George Atkinson

Answer: see post #1724

 

[y2kmark]

If you are talking about spectator sports only vs. actually getting out and doing something, then all sports is trivial...

 

[K Douglas]

Who is the only other player besides Wayne Gretzky to be the sole playing member of his class inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?

The answer to this question is Bill Cowley in 1968.

 

[Adam_hadam]

There is a specific rule, but the Garrett incident did not inspire this rule, another player from the 70's took helmet off opponent and threw it at him.

...........and the answer is Lyle Alzado

The NFL actually has a specific rule about using a helmet as a weapon

Something to note in the case of Myles Garrett.

ftw.usatoday.com

Just a little lyle roid rage. lyle died at 42 and thankfully never bred.