Part of the NFL offseason each season is dedicated to rule changes and alterations, presumably installed to make the game more enjoyable for fans and more fair for the players on the field. To that end, ahead of the NFL combine this week the league's executive vice president of operations Troy Vincent revealed on Monday that there was one anonymous team who submitted a proposal to ban the "tush push."
It's a favored strategy of the Philadelphia Eagles that involves pushing the quarterback forward in short-yardage situations and one that has flummoxed the rest of the NFL. Many teams have tried and failed to replicate Philly's success over the last few years and no defense has found a way to consistently stop the play. Both of those factors are apparently so frustrating that a team proposed to ban it altogether.
