The NFL’s new world order came into focus Thursday night in the town that celebrates the league’s past.
The Hall of Fame Game, held in Canton, Ohio, was the first test case for the league’s new helmet rule.
And the reviews were terrible.
The league wants to make the game safer, so no longer can any player, regardless of position, lower his head to initiate contact.
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And if Bennett Jackson’s seemingly perfect tackle — later called by Ravens teammate Eric Weddle as “a clinic teach tape play” — is indeed what’s now illegal, the game might be unrecognizable.