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Austin Collie Injury: Is the NFL Fining Players for Effect, Not Intent?
Published by Jeff Kayer on November 8, 2010
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Indianapolis Colts
If you watched any football last night, you undoubtedly saw the highlight and subsequent debates regarding the vicious hit Indianapolis wide receiver Austin Collie sustained against the Philadelphia Eagles.
In case you did miss it, here is a link to view it.
In this new age of the NFL, there will be a lot of interest to see if this hit results in a fine for Eagles defender Kurt Coleman.
On the one hand, no one can argue that there was not helmet-to-helmet contact between the two players. However, when analyzing the hit, you see that this wasn't nearly as malicious as some of the hits we saw three weeks ago that led to the ushering in of this new NFL hit policy.
This hit will undoubtedly spear debate between people that want to see a total crackdown on helmet-to-helmet hits and those that believe that football is a viole...
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