I'm not saying it wasn't a clean hit, but rather that the players are more likely to stretch what seem like the increasingly elastic limits under the current refs. In other words, even it IF it was clean, it was still gratuitously violent because the players are testing those limits. And I believe that's dangerous.

As for the "regular" refs, well they had to start somewhere too, right? Sure, maybe not all at once, but still. I'll stop there before I make any union enemies.

-V