Outlaw Gloves? Not fair to former players?

[stirs]

What say the Huddle?

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=14368542

[Nate Dogg]

Fug no! That is a hilarious video though.

[Inimicus]

If Rick is making one hand catches with them....

 

I call shenanigans. 

[Datawire]

Ginn had them on yesterday. I hope he wears them every game. In fact, I hope he invests in the company that manufactures those gloves.

[stankowalski]

6 minutes ago, Datawire said:

Ginn had them on yesterday. I hope he wears them every game. In fact, I hope he invests in the company that manufactures those gloves.

He's been wearing them every week hasn't he?  I just assumed all receivers wore them lol.

[Datawire]

3 minutes ago, stankowalski said:

He's been wearing them every week hasn't he?  I just assumed all receivers wore them lol.

I can't speak for every week, but I know for a fact he had them on yesterday. He took them off and gave them to a kid in front of me after his two TD's and the little guy let me fondle those wonderful empty digits Ginn was previously wearing.

More Ginn glove pls.

[Donald LaFell]

Ginn's 1st catch looked impossible 

[SIGCHI222]

As long as both the DB's and WR's can wear them, who cares?

Funny video though.

[stankowalski]

BTW...I doubt very highly that the NFL would outlaw gloves.  They've been doing all they can for about the past 10 to 15 years to get scoring up.

[electro's horse]

i mean even jerry rice admitted to using stick'em.

Players will cheat every which way they can. If they really want to even the playing field they'll fix the rules and start testing for HGH. 

[TheRed]

The video plays up the one handed catches as if it's happening at an absurd rate.

Is it really?

Clearly the gloves help, but they aren't turning every wide receiver in the NFL into Odell Beckham Jr.

As for what is "fair to former players", you may as well start outlawing everything modern in the NFL that may give players an advantage if you start going down that road.

[Moorgan]

1 minute ago, electro's horse said:

i mean even jerry rice admitted to using stick'em.

Players will cheat every which way they can. If they really want to even the playing field they'll fix the rules and start testing for HGH. 

I actually think they should all be forced to do a safe amount under the care of a dr. I believe soldiers should too. But I know it's not realistic. But I want the best performance possible under the safety for all involved. Flame away.

[stankowalski]

1 minute ago, TheRed said:

The video plays up the one handed catches as if it's happening at an absurd rate.

Is it really?

Clearly the gloves help, but they aren't turning every wide receiver in the NFL into Odell Beckham Jr.

As for what is "fair to former players", you may as well start outlawing everything modern in the NFL that may give players an advantage if you start going down that road.

Yeah so much has changed from when I was a kid watching football to now.  Today's game is fun to watch, but it is nowhere near as physical as it used to be. 

Those older receivers would be killing it in today's game.

[stankowalski]

4 minutes ago, Moorgan said:

I actually think they should all be forced to do a safe amount under the care of a dr. I believe soldiers should too. But I know it's not realistic. But I want the best performance possible under the safety for all involved. Flame away.

Yeah I am kind of like that too.  It's their body, they get paid millions of dollars to do what they do so let them wreck it if they want to.  Only problem with that though (and it ALWAYS comes back to this) are the kids.  That poo would filter down to the colleges and high schools.  And 99% of those in high schools would be wrecking their bodies for nothing because there's only so many spots on an NFL team.