That Horse Collar On The Opening Kickoff

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(08-29-2011 10:23 AM)papachaz Wrote:  horse collar has nothing to do with riding the player to the ground and everything to do with NOT grabbing inside the shoulder pads to drag someone down. as said, it's preseason for the refs too. yes the holding in the endzone was missed, and yes Bosher did a horse collar tackle. this was exactly the same kind of play called, i think it was Kolb last year who tackled Moore the same exact way. Yes should have been offsetting penalties.

This is false. It does have to do with riding the player to the ground. I'm at work so I can't look it up for you but it was expressly stated and even put on the screen during a few games last year with the typed out explanation of what a horse collar tackle was. They even put out a video example of it on nfl.com.

The only way to horsecollar someone is to grab inside the back of their neck, exclusively, and pull them down from behind, not hit them sideways out of bounds as Bosher did, it's EXCLUSIVE to being drug down from behind, I believe the terminology was 'ridden' to the ground. Basically a horse collar is what that dude did to TO, I believe that was the clip they played with it.

At this point I will have no further communication with you, the facts are out there and your opinion is incorrect, as was the call on the field.