From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:36:46 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills) wrote:

>In article , Tony Williams
 wrote:
>>
>>"Perfectly fair tackle - barely even broke his neck."
>
>"Perfectly fair spear tackle - only buried him up to the eyebrows."
>
>(A spear tackle is where you grab your target low, lift and invert him and
>drive his head into the ground...)

Interesting.  Here, spearing is when the tackler uses his own
helmet-covered head to strike the ballcarrier.  It's been made illegal due
to  actual broken necks (the tackler risks breaking his own neck rather
than that of the "tacklee's").

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