Why Not Two-Below Football in the NFL?

The all-too-frequent and all-too-brutal injuries inflicted on American professional football players demand a healthy alternative.

What if these very same athletes were playing "Two-Below Football" instead, with each "tackle" occurring at the very moment when a player on defense places two of his hands below the waistline of the offensive player holding the football?

This, to me, would make an ideal "Fantasy Football" game. It would be a joyous sporting event because it would offer fans an entire National Football League (NFL) game without ANYONE being injured or medically harmed at any point in that entire game!

For those who say it would make for a "boring" game, I have three responses.

Number One: How do you know for sure that that type of NFL football game would be dull to watch?

Number Two: When was the last time you watched an NFL Two-Below-Tackling Game?

Number Three: Aren't you overlooking the fact that these very talented American athletes could still score lots of touchdowns and field goals, even with the two-below-tackling format?

I, for one, would welcome an annual NFL-sponsored "two-below"-tackling football game that highlights the NFL players' talents WITHOUT the violence inflicted on them by helmet tackles and other appallingly injurious tackles.

That is the type of "NFL At Its Best" pro-football game that I would be very proud to attend---a game in which I would not feel guilty of vicarious sadism from being in the stands that day.

At present, the vicarious sadism occurs when an NFL fan pays money to watch a game and ends up witnessing lots of athletically talented younger men being brutally injured on the playing field. It all feels a bit like something you would witness in an Ancient Roman Coliseum, complete with many of the NFL fans cheering vulgarly if a player from an opposing team gets injured on a play and is carried away on a stretcher.