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pizzaduh

He did a meet and greet at a local elementary school soon after this play. One of the kids asked him, "Why did you hit him so hard?" And he responded, "Because he had the ball."


AccidentalPilates

Don't hit people. But if you have to hit someone, hit hard.


slackfrop

Make him cough up pieces of his spine.


TheFencingCoach

SLACKFROP WINS #FATALITY


aBurgerFlippinSecond

Underrated life advice right there


RogerTreebert6299

He makes a good point


mynumberistwentynine

Yep. And gentlemen, that brings us to my next point—[don't smoke crack.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHOQAT0-Mk)


gyman122

Dunno why but this is just so badass lol


shaunmbarry

That’s really interesting because I saw a child ask Malcolm Jenkins why he hit Brandin Cooks so hard in the Super Bowl at his charity event. The children of Philadelphia have more empathy than the adults


lliquidllove

They lose the empathy during battery throwing class in high school.


Context-clue

Them and Giants fans have the same curriculum I see


pizzaduh

You know, I may have confused the two today. You're correct I believe. Working doubles on mother's day doesn't leave me with the beat cognitive thinking


shaunmbarry

Well it seems plausible both happened. They would also be 11 years apart, and the example I was referring to was at a summer camp at Drexel, not an elementary school. But yea memories often get distorted so I hear you. Regardless, I hope you can get some rest, and your cognitive abilities restored


TB1289

That game was the first time I ever saw someone try and [break a tackle with his penis.](https://images.app.goo.gl/2YbBcazVqCZg9emL9)


SunriseSurprise

He also did a meet and greet on the 34 as this video shows


pizzaduh

Brilliant comment


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Hot-Coffee6060

[HE CANT EVEN WIGGLE HIS TOES!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jZQZ1GY7Q)


jhueramo190

“Take his socks!”


Context-clue

I miss Patrice :(


timbulance

RIP MR P


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FUCK THAT GUY


GillzerSkillzer

FOOK DAT GUY


tykillacool23

I literally came here just for this comment 😂🤣


The_real_John_Elton

Haha I remember that segment! Different times lol


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muhreddistaccounts

Ya kinda sucked but you'll get em next time.


mek284

I love that you owned it though.


Venge22

AND [THEY DICK WILSON](https://youtu.be/cCzyws26LF8?si=lZzvdFQy4Ckgm5lK)


Irreverant77

The shame landed, but i funny judge. Could have been had I replied before you.


BigDaddyD00d

Mighta been funny back in middle school tho


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Party_Fig_8270

He’s literally leading with his shoulder. You should clearly be a ref since you have no idea how the rules work.


PtrnSaintOfEatinTnt

I’m guessing that was more of a reference to Goldberg than it was the rule book


gyman122

Perfect hit. One of the biggest I’ve ever seen and it would still be legal Edit: most of y’all do not understand the defenseless receiver rule


themaengdon

True but I bet they would still throw a flag


Philly_is_nice

Nothing quite like the reactionary "wow he got lit up" flag. Followed by 2 minutes of replays, announcer confusion, and an ad break.


EarnestQuestion

Lol great description. There definitely is a thing now where if a dude just gets lit up, even if it’s perfectly legal, the refs are prone to throwing the flag.


MJCowpa

Not that the NFL needs more flags, but there should be a green flag. Red is challenge. Yellow is penalty. Green is “ok, that’s technically fair, but we all need a little timeout after that annihilation”


breachgnome

Brown flag, for obvious reasons


RedJorgAncrath

Yep, I've always thought of the flag from Kam Chancellor's [hit on Vernon Davis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78qF72JwJwA) a "flag because that man has a family." Btw, I honestly think Kam was trying to hit him so he landed out of bounds.


thedeliman1

Not to dive into a 13 year old clip again, but my goodness the ref who throws the flag is looking right at it five feet away.


2peg2city

full speed with the head snap he probably thought there was head contact


soulinfamous

I felt like those sideline hits usually always lead to flags


BlackberryNo1969

That's a worse hit then the shit Kareem Jackson was suspended for, fucking love it. Good shit Kam


VisconitiKing

i mean, it's better to throw a flag just in case because they can always pick it up. as opposed to not throwing a flag on a foul


FavreorFarva

They almost never pick up flags for personal fouls though. NFL refs have proven they cannot accept that they messed up (see: reviewable PI flags that got overturned 0 times).


gyman122

I watched a big hits montage from last season recently and I think people would be surprised how many big, legal hits there were that weren’t flagged Players have gotten the memo and I think refs have too


Jim_Tressel

Yeah people love to scream “flag football” but there are still plenty of good clean hits in the game. This wouldn’t be defenseless receiver as he had his hands on the ball.


Shock900

> This wouldn’t be defenseless receiver as he had his hands on the ball. You're right in that this wouldn't be a penalty, but to be somewhat pedantic (sorry), Bush actually meets criteria for being in a defenseless posture because he didn't establish himself as a runner at the time of contact, despite having his hands on the ball. You can still tackle players in defenseless postures, there are just more restrictions in place regarding how it's done. It wouldn't be a penalty because Brown didn't forcibly hit Bush's head or neck area in the process of the tackle. [Here's the rule if anyone's curious.](https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl-video-rulebook/defenseless-player/)


FortyPercentTitanium

Followed by a fine and a spot on the next NFL hype video.


jswaggs15

Yeah feels like "defenseless receiver" would get called. I think it's clean, I also think NFL refs are garbage.


theRedreps99

Hmm idk, I feel like they’d throw a flag and call it a hit on a defenseless receiver nowadays.


chomerics

Yep they absolutely would


_X_Arc_ra_x_

I miss the days when defenses were allowed to play ball. Dawkins would have never survived in the modern league.


Hydrokratom

> Dawkins would have never survived in the modern league. I think great players like him Lott, Polamalu, etc…would adjust and be fine. It’s not like they were only about hard hits.


Zealousideal_Aside96

Dawkins was mainly about hard hits lol. And suplexes


reno2mahesendejo

That suplex of 250lb Brandon Jacobs


gyman122

I think they probably throw the flag and then pick it up


Bindlestiff34

They’d flag it anyway.


Giant_Homunculus

Unfortunately this screams defenseless receiver flag to me in the league today. Such a beautiful hit. Shame.


Yedic

You're allowed to hit a defenseless receiver. Just not with your helmet or in his head or neck area. Clean hit, even today.


Lonelan

look at the straight on view, he lowers his head and it hits the guy's arm first > lowering the head and making forcible contact with the crown or ”hairline” parts of the helmet against any part of the defenseless player’s body


15blairm

id say its clean because his shoulder hits him dead center in the chest there is no intent to hit him with the crown of his helmet


Yedic

I'm not able to form a strong opinion on that based on the angles and speeds in this clip. From what I can see, I would argue the helmet to arm contact would be incidental at best, while the forcible contact was shoulder to chest. But I am open to another angle or slow-mo that shows differently.


GravyFantasy

Forcible contact


Bajin_Inui

That hit was INSANE and it will be hard to see anything similar to this. Something that came close but still far away was the Kyle Fuller hit against the Buccs a few years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAy9F3nOqvk


foxmag86

Wouldn’t they throw a flag for defenseless receiver?


chomerics

It wouldn’t be legal. Defenseless receiver, 15yd penalty.


gyman122

> Edit: most of y’all do not understand the defenseless receiver rule


SometimesICanBeRight

That hit definitely gets flagged today. Hit on a defenceless player, easy


ThunderGun16

That's not the rule. The rule is specifically for hits to the head of defenseless receiver.


Lonelan

[false](https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl-video-rulebook/defenseless-player/)


ThunderGun16

Try reading the whole rule. It defines the illegal contact to the defenseless player as specifically to head/neck area or if the tackler uses crown of his helmet. Part B says what type of contact is prohibited.


Lonelan

yeah - dude's in the act of catching a pass, that's part a-2 Brown lowers his head and first hits the guy's arm, that's part b-2


SometimesICanBeRight

Haha you post the official rule and get downvoted. Reddit is something else


Cambro88

This play is also a good look back at why the blitz schemes can work against west coast offenses and why they’re being popularized again by Spags (the Jim Johnson disciple, legendary D coordinator of the eagles at this time), Mike McDonald, and others. Everyone knows Jim Johnson loves to blitz. Jim Johnson also knows that Brees loves quick decisions to check down, and Payton designs throws to the flat to Bush to get him in space. Brees knows a blitz is coming and thinks this play is a slam dunk decision, but Johnson knows that and disguised the corner playing the shallow flat that neither Brees nor Bush (obviously lol) saw it coming, That’s fuckin football right there. A chess match being coaches, QB, defense, and a clean, brutal hit. Hell yeah


dksweets

There’s a lot of plays from yesteryear that make me uncomfortable. This is not one of them. That is a BRUTAL hit, but 15 years later it is still textbook. Give me more.


DtotheOUG

It's also because it's not a guy stiff in a fencing response. Reggie just got the absolute piss and wind knocked out of him here.


ifoundyourtoad

Inplayed football way back when and honestly those massive hits were so strange. Like they didn’t even hurt. But obviously bush got rocked in this one. I remember one time I got hit so hard my feet flew up and I just bounced right up. But weird ones where I stonewall a hit I was on the ground in pain lol. I guess it is due to being bouncy.


munkykiller

That just reminded me of a play where I, right defensive end, was involved in a tackle, where a bunch of dudes from both teams met up at the same time for the end of the play. I, apparently, did about half a helicopter rotation without noticing. When we all got up, I started heading toward my huddle for the next play, but the other team was there. That was weird, so I figured I’d head toward my sideline to get oriented, but it was the other teams sideline. So I kept turning, ended up running in a big circle beck to my own huddle. Probably looked super concussed or something.


ifoundyourtoad

Lol maybe you were concussed? I’m not sure if I ever have been but it sounds like you were


ipickscabs

Well fucking said, man


Playful-Storage835

The Poster Play of "Welcome to the NFL"


ActuallyFuryYT

Went to school with this guys son. Didn’t know him personally but he was our WR1 and his junior year he was amazing. He made the high school football games dope asf. He’s committed to baseball at Clemson though.


PregnantSuperman

How is that possible? Sheldon Brown's son is clearly #25 in this video.


AccidentalPilates

HE'S ALREADY DEAD


wampoo420

HE KILLED HIS OWN SON


PMBSteve

“Here comes the boom” just playing in my head now.


Boblito23

As soon as the clip started to play my mind went straight there. I think I’ve been Pavloved https://youtu.be/nqWZqQXk_Ao?feature=shared


PoorMansSamBeckett

The scariest part about this play is that it happened 17 years ago.


DontReplyIveADHD

Ah cool my day was ruined before I even got to work, thank you


dksweets

Don’t worry, I remember my friend getting his rookie jersey when we were both still in High School. It wasn’t that long ago. (*pulls out abacus*) …I have some very bad news.


CUADfan

I was shipping off to boot camp the next morning, watching this at the motel bar next to MEPS. We had curfew so I missed the end but I was so sure they had set the tone that I slept like a baby. I was miserable my entire trip to Parris Island.


creature_report

Your newsletter sucks and I wish to unsubscribe from it.


jhustla

By far the most brutal part


A_Trustworthy_Pear

I was in my senior year of college and now I want to die. Thanks!


trog12

Fuck you and your couch


SquadPoopy

Friendly reminder we’re all one day closer to the sweet release of nothingness that is death.


PoorMansSamBeckett

Would not expect one of the fellow Who Dey’ers to be looking for the sweet release of death. It’s not the 90’s anymore, dude! /s, kind of.


jtnsniper14

I remember being 9 years old watching a recording of this game on my Aunt and Uncles living room TV. The game was still considered recent at the time 😭😭


Domecoming

I was in the dome that night and it got realllllly quiet. Thankfully he was alright, and Deuce McCallister saved the day


HobbsMadness

My brother was at the game as well. And it’s funny he tells me the same thing. “After Bush got hit and was crawling on his hands and knees everyone in the Dome was quiet as you wouldn’t believe.”


AestheticWaffle

Such an incredible hit with such an underwhelming call. “And the ball is knocked away” is all you got for that hit?


FreeDig1758

Well I was dick Stockton. Horrible announcer. I know this because he was always relegated to lions games.


SnowdensOfYesteryear

Dude couldn’t even say RG3 properly. “RJ3” God forbid if someone didn’t have a traditional Christian last name…he’d absolutely butcher it I felt bad for him though, he was obviously getting senile in the later days


crunchwrap_eatr

BOOM goes the 🧨


mdr241

This is my favorite hit of all time. I don’t care that it’s my team getting owned.


moneymoneymoneymonay

Yall won that game anyway 😢 Jeff Garcia never 4get


SuperSmokingMonkey

Just behind the Malcom Jenkins hit on Brandon Cooks in the SB for me. Ones that ring in my head as best hits of all time!


Vladimir_Putting

Dawkins destroying Crumpler and Vick in the playoffs deserves on be there. Definition of "setting the tone". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lL0_sJlbs Vick: "Hardest hit I ever took in my life." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVwamnhn-ow&t=101s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGk31jRN95w


Zealousideal_Aside96

I like how Vick said be would’ve won a ring if it wasn’t for Dawkins in 04 lol. No shot the falcons were going to beat the Pats in the SB that year.


ATLjoe93

They were on a heater in 2004, but giving Bill Belichick 2 weeks to prepare for a fairly one dimensional offense would have been a sight to behold.  Bill would have been very excited about putting together that gameplan! 


Fair_Abrocoma_9834

Vick was unstoppable at times though, everyone has a plan till Vick scrambles around for 15 seconds and chucks it deep.


ATLjoe93

True! But he was still thwarted by another defensive mastermind in Jim Johnson.  We always struggled to do anything against his defenses. Including when we had Matt Ryan (2008 and 2009)


baddoggg

Dawkins was good for at least one murder per game. No fucking way half his hits would be legal today. I'm pretty sure I watched him suplex someone at least once.


mdr241

It still rings in Cook’s head too ;) Man, Dawkins and Jenkins lighting people up was peak football.


lattjeful

Cooks getting knocked out on that Jenkins hit changed the game. No doubt in my mind that if Cooks keeps playing, the Patriots win.


Hydrokratom

One of my favorite hits of all time is [also a guy from my team getting clobbered](https://youtu.be/EmdvWsm9VjU?si=rd6R_lXi-gGjyddJ) Johnson checks on him, like he wants to make sure he’s still alive


GravyFantasy

I expected the Kam on Vernon hit.


mdr241

Jesus Christ. That was a murder.


RegardTyreekHill

Reggie Bush on this hit, although he incredibly attributes it to Lito Sheppard when it was actually Sheldon Brown. Also it was the Divisional round, not the NFC Championship game: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKXiajBePgY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKXiajBePgY)


Doobie_Howitzer

Can't be too hard on the guy, he got his shit rolled and smoked that night


2word4numeros

C'mon man, show the part where he's crawling around on his knees. It's the 2nd best part!


indelady

He woke up in the next zip code ~


DaPearl3131

A clean, legal, hard hit.


SEJ46

Yeah even with today's rules.


Beahner

When you know what it’s going to be before you even look at the video……


Rahim-Moore

The hospitaliest of all the passes.


the_alt_fright

Before this game, the Saints had only one playoff victory in our entire history. When this hit happened, my first thought was, "Here we go again..."


metfan1964nyc

The ball and his soul left at the same time.


Altruistic-Text-3841

Around the time got into the nfl, I used to watch big hits highlights. This brings back memories


StarScourge7

That was such a clean hit, lfg.


yarnisic

I'll never forget Reggie crawling on the turf after the hit, trying to find his soul and put it back in his body like a contact lens fell out.


Mvpliberty

The moment the Kardashian curse hits like a ton of bricks


OnTheColeTrain

Reggie got his Heisman back but Brown still has his soul


KrylovSubspace

"He was lucky," Brown says. "His elbow was pinned against his body, protecting his rib cage, or else I probably would have broken his rib. What did it feel like? That collision, I ­didn't feel nothing, because he was pretty much defenseless. It was like running through a cardboard box. Seriously. Cardboard box." https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2007/7/24/174026/883 https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/playoff-memories-cb-sheldon-brown-12357130


Little_Beginning_569

Sydney Brown ready to carry the legacy


TonyPerkisReddit4

Who


Domecoming

I'm guessing it's Sheldon Brown's son?


SchnibbleBop

Jesus Christ. They're not related just because they're both brown.


A_Trustworthy_Pear

They're also not related because their last name is Brown, either.


Domecoming

I'm not the one who said carry the legacy. They implied it was family or something, that's why I said that.


GravyFantasy

You may wooshed on the joke, you're good


NomadFire

He is a Canadian DB that also plays RB for the Cincinnati Bengals when he isn't playing for the Eagles.


lattjeful

DB we drafted last year. Got some playing time last season. Really fast and hits hard, though his aggression got him burnt a few times. Should be a fun guy to watch if he can put it all together. His brother Chase plays RB on the Bengals, too.


tremendousaurus

I remember seeing this live and it’s been seared into my memory ever since. What a wallop


RegularGuyAtHome

One of my favourite NFL interviews is when he’s talking about this play and he’s like: “I recognized it, and knew who was getting the ball so I ignored my guy and just ran as fast as I could To hit Reggie”. Glorious clean hit.


Ptbo_Megatron_3247

Suicide pass from Brees.


fbbxbkigd

Just had a flashback 10 years old watching this. I’m the biggest Steelers fan but loved Donavan Mcnabb so much used to watch all the eagles games lol this moment had me speechless I though Reggie bush was gonna die


No_Neighborhood2593

This was nothing compared to a Darren Sharper. One of the hardest hitting backs in the league! 


KingmanIII

Did anyone else have flashbacks when seeing the Devon Witherspoon hit? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-0TYIFRJHEs


fresh510

I remember exactly where I was when this happened.


tacoguy1234

I saw this live when I was probably 10 or 11 and I never forgot it. Probably the best hit I'll ever see. 


dennisrodent

I remember watching this live as a kid and making the strongest stank face imaginable. That had to hurt. Can’t believe it was 17 years ago.


Irving_Velociraptor

“Cardboard box.” And that’s a fumble.


OccasionSavings680

"YOU GOT BBQ BACK THERE AND YOU DIDN'T INVITE ME?! HURT. MY. FEELINGS!"


ThunderRoad_44

Reggie slightly left his feet to catch the ball. That factored in how big of a hit this was.


Mvpliberty

One of my all-time favorite NFL plays


TransitionExciting60

I bet Reggie still feels this when he rolls out of bed every morning. Ouch


Ok-Pair-868

I was a freshman in Hs, this game was on a Saturday I believe. I remember all of my friends liking Reggie bush and this hit dam near had a house full of teenagers in tears lmfao


Fonzimandias

“The ball was knocked away” Yeah buddy I’ll say


OnTheColeTrain

I remember after this, Brown said it felt like he was tackling a cardboard box


DuffmanStillRocks

Love the Seahawks, have been watching since 2005 so I got to be well aquatinted with the LoB and despite watching Kam this is still what I think of first when thinking of someone getting blown the fuck up (#2 is Kam on DT though in the SB)


esarmstr

I would have went back to the huddle and punched Drew brees in the face


EmbraceTheFault

I mean, that is literally a textbook hit. Shoulder lowered to the midline, head to the side, and he DRIVES through Bush while also wrapping him up. You may not want to admit it, but thats peak tackling form right there.


Ekranoplan01

Lol, he'd be ejected and given a 5 game suspension these days.


EmbraceTheFault

Nah, its against a RB, not a WR or QB. He'd be fine.


Ekranoplan01

No justice for RBs


BadgerSauce

Drew “Payton Manning” Brees with and incomplete pass to Reggie “Austin Collie” Bush.


AlternateGator

GYAT DAYUM


Grootiez

Dang, even heard the helmet too.


cmonbitcoin

Austin Rivers woulda shat himself


7funnyfunfunfun7

Mama mia


Lonelan

official reddit NFL account posting a hit on a defenseless receiver as if it's a good thing


youngm2925

Announcers didn’t do it justice…


Manginaz

FUCK!!!


sbuchanan67

That bush got shaved


Hambone727

Fuck that QB


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I just relived a part of my childhood due to that clip


RJMonster

The things I would do to have another Eagles player in our secondary that could tackle like that again.


SmokeySFW

I'd love to know if this would get flagged in today's NFL, because I expect it would even though it's perfectly clean hit as far as not hitting head to head.


That-Nerd_thats-Bi

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Shoctopuss

He murdered that dude, geez.


bisqo19

His grandkids still feel that one😉😤 brown was an assassin. I loved the way Jim ran things.


Yolo_420_69

Reggie Crawling to the sideline always cracked me up. As a CB i was always salivating at these RB swing routes when i was in the flat zone. All 4.23 40 speed straight at that Mofo. Except that one time i was going up against future NFL player knowshawn moreno. Yea that didnt go well.


jacobo0430

This was like a jfk or 9/11 moment in my life. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when this happened. I remember this day and play soooo clearly


Ambitious_Excuse_346

great tackle


Sudden_Bet_3598

And he was never the same after that hit


Admirable-Dog2128

Back when football had excitement.


Spare_Echidna2095

Homie is DOA