newusernamebcimdumb t1_iy27rhg wrote
There are 11 very large men on the other team trying to stop that from happening. The defensive line and linebackers would rock that small person into next year.
Seared_Gibets t1_iy28aut wrote
I think the implication is that they'd be airborne. Literally throwing the whole person, not just the ball, over their heads.
newusernamebcimdumb t1_iy28pv8 wrote
How far do they figure a person can be thrown and at what kind of launch angle? The defense will kill that man. Even if the person could get thrown decently far, how often will that weak person fumble the ball when they get railed by the defense?
Theoretically, what OP is proposing is legal. But there’s a reason why we don’t see it happen.
JOEYisROCKhard t1_iy2atla wrote
Yeah, exactly. It's pretty obvious to anyone that has watched 5 minutes of American Football. This is basically a Looney tunes question.
YellsAtGoats t1_iy2gyum wrote
Right? Let's say we recruit a "small person" (a clinical dwarf... even someone on the lower end of clinical dwarfism) onto a football team. Let's say that that's 65 pounds of man plus a few more pounds of helmet, shoulder pads, etc.. Well, even the very strongest of men isn't going to fling that other man very far.
Seared_Gibets t1_iy3cgat wrote
Oh I agree!
It did make laugh pretty hard thinking about it being tried, sounds like something from an Adam Sandler movie 😂
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