“We’re trying to make the game safer for the guy getting hit and the guy doing the hitting,” director of officiating Mike Pereira said.

Among those guys was Tom Brady, who injured his knee when hit by Kansas City safety Bernard Pollard in the 2008 opener, costing Brady the rest of the season. That tackle, when Pollard was on the ground but lunged at Brady, was legal last season. It won’t be in ’09.

Sorry Tom Brady fans...that's crap.  And the rule change would make me mad if the injury happened to Peyton Manning too.  They're so concerned with making sure their premier players don't get hurt in any way shape or form that they make absurd rule changes.  That's just about the stupidest thing in the world.  They didn't do that when Joe Theissman snapped his leg as far as I remember...


As in music, so in life...