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Today is a good day for the Indianapolis Colts.
They're doing this because they don't want to see anybody get paralyzed or, heaven forbid, killed on the football field. They're doing this because fundamental tackling has gone the way of leather helmets, because today's defenders are products of the ESPN "jacked up" age when monstrous hits are fodder for the nightly highlight reels.
It's also a good day because the Colts get to watch everybody else in the NFL beat up one another, and get a sense of how the reinforcement of the hitting rules will affect them when they return to the field next Monday against the Houston Texans.
Nonsense.
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"I'm definitely going to watch," Colts safety Antoine Bethea said. "I would watch anyway, but I want to see what they're calling with these new rules." [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
There's this goofy idea that this is all part of the league's collective-bargaining posture, that they're making the game [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] safer in order to make the proposed 18-game season more palatable.
They're also doing this because kids mimic the pros, and it's tough to teach fundamental tackling at the grass-roots [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] level when everybody is celebrating the NFL kill shot.
For one thing, nobody will get hurt today, unless they stub their toe on a living-room ottoman or pull a deltoid while doing the breaststroke in the White River. At this point, the team's injury list is lengthier than a Tolstoy novel. The hits kept coming last week -- [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Dallas Clark,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Antonio Johnson.
To be precise, these are old rules regarding head-hunting; they just haven't been harshly enforced. But when Rodney Harrison, long considered one of the NFL's dirtiest players, decries the escalating violence in the league, it's time to do something.

"The way people's bodies are these days, getting that much bigger, stronger and faster, the game is more dangerous," Colts receiver Anthony Gonzalez said. "I don't think you could argue that [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] our ability to take punishment as human beings, especially to the head, has evolved to the same level that people's strength and speed have. They have to do something -- and it looks like they're on the right track."