NFL Plays That Forced Rule Changes

From Jumping the Line to weird Kick off rules, here are some of my favorite plays that forced the Rule book to change.

[@jm22888]

Brett Kollmann thumbnails have officially taken over sports KZbin

[@MechanisCaduceus]

Dude is good at thumbnail creation, give 'im a break xD

[@Mathtron5000]

A rule change that was massive to me was Kenny Pickett's Fake Slide in the ACC Championship Game which exposed a loophole so bad in the rules, that both College Football and the NFL had to put a hotfox rule in, just so it couldn't be abused

[@giannidisumma2948]

I feel like QBs are still too protected when running. They can't fake slide anymore but they can still go for the sideline and bait a tackle only to step out of bounds and gain extra penalty yards.

[@deniz1880]

@@giannidisumma2948any player can do this

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@giannidisumma2948 Or when they slide late and get pummeled.

[@PaulGaither]

Isaac, you are Mr Punts! How can you leave off the most famous rule change on punt plays?!? Intentional mass holding to drain the clock while the punter does his best to not get tackled and eventually get a safety if needed. The rules were changed to stop this.

[@IsaacPunts]

Wow that is a great one that I completely had an oversight on!

[@lightyagami3492]

​​@@IsaacPuntsTime for a 2nd video maybe? I also remember a rule change on where ineligable receivers can line up. The pats used a formation a few times in a game against the ravens that lined up ineligable people out at wideout.

[@PJ.Rob06]

Paul Gaither what's up guy?

[@PaulGaither]

Let's go! It's @@PJ.Rob06 !

[@Kylora2112]

The pre-merger AFL also had the 2 point conversion for the entire 1960s. The highest scoring tie in NFL history was a 43-43 game between the Oakland Raider and Boston Patriots, and it was made possible because the Raiders failed a 2 point conversion to up 7, then the Patriots made a 2 point conversion to go up 3, then the Raiders tied it up with a late field goal.

[@flowingafterglow629]

The 2 point conversion was basically an option at every level of football except the NFL.

[@RJ-gk4rt]

John Harbaugh shaking his head in bewilderment after Belichick once again outmaneuvers him with an additional lineman as an eligible receiver is one of my favorites

[@Kylel0519]

Funny thing about that bills chiefs OT rule change. Chiefs tried to do that back when they lost to the patriots in OT in the 2018 season for the exact same reason, and got shut down. One of the teams that shot down the proposal? The bills lol

[@tygrkhat4087]

The Bills tried to get the Bengals no-huddle offense banned, then went to the K-gun.

[@shinsukecorbin425]

What’s even funnier is that the game has been moved to offense over defense..The Bills basically cried about a call that should’ve never been changed because as the old saying goes defense wins championships..All the Bills had to do was hold KC to a FG and they would’ve got the ball back

[@Kylel0519]

@@shinsukecorbin425 even more, all they had to do was hold us for 13 seconds, and they couldn’t even do that

[@sanchop8963]

Came on to make the same point. Why it was seen as such an injustice to the Bill's, yet hardly a peep was heard when the Chiefs were the victim a year earlier really bugs me.

[@baptistechenus6735]

The most important rule change that led this sport to eventually become what it is today : the allowance of the forward pass!

[@DB-pb8zl]

As a Green Bay fan, please don't tell Chicago. It's still funny.

[@colekardis3723]

Always find the bills overtime rule change funny considering the chiefs lost to the patriots in the AFC championship a couple years prior…in OT.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

On a bullshit call too.

[@limegreenelevator]

​@@whiskeymonk4085What BS call? The Dee Ford offside where he was lined up offside?

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@limegreenelevator Super late Roughing the passer call on third down. Flag thrown four seconds after the play ended. Brady literally got slapped in the chest. Go back and look at it. You'll agree. Ford's call was legit.

[@kilowattgang]

But People love josh Allen, and Mahomes was “whining to the refs”

[@silencegaming3227]

The chiefs even asked for the same rule change after that game and the whole nfl shot it down

[@jackdaone6469]

Dez’s catch being taken back still hurts. And it doesn’t help that this was the last chance Tony Romo would get to bring a ring home.

[@Gh0stR1der__]

cry some more then

[@Z.zz.z.z.zz..zz.z.z..z.z.z.z.]

Jumping the line should be allowed, change my mind

[@jasonfreitas6845]

It is allowed. You just can’t touch the player

[@MrConverse]

Change mine too.

[@Z.zz.z.z.zz..zz.z.z..z.z.z.z.]

nah you just can't gently tickle the underside of their balls because it makes them giggle@@jasonfreitas6845

[@Randy_Flamethrower]

@@jasonfreitas6845incorrect

[@HurricaneGregor]

I was shocked to not see Megatron mentioned during the catch talk. But an enjoyable video nonetheless 👏

[@Myrrden]

Lions getting no love, as usual. Lol

[@frost-hj4cp]

It was Megatron, Dez, and then Jesse James that had that problem from what I remember

[@tenebrisdumplin4583]

The Bills somehow whined so much they got the overtime rules changed. Even though the Chiefs had lost the 2018 AFC championship game the exact same way to the Patriots, and the week after the Chiefs-Bills divisional game, the Bengals beat the Chiefs in overtime because they could actually play defense and stopped the Chiefs on their first OT possession. The rules only weren't fair when the Bills were involved, apparently.

[@KuroiRenge]

It's fine. Even with the rule change, they still choked when it mattered.

[@dneary]

The change to kick-off rules not allowing the kicking team to get a running start has mostly killed the onside kick. No individual play is at fault, but obviously concussions are a big factor. The fumblerooskie play that made yards gained after a fumble invalid is a big one that comes to mind. "Disconcerting signals" is a fun one too - I'm sure it must have a back story.

[@patrickdare5356]

It is not the "no run up" that killed the onside kick, but the "five guys on each side of the ball" that killed it.

[@dneary]

@@patrickdare5356 I quite like the idea of giving teams a 4th and 10 on their own 40 or 35 after they score - of course it's a punt by default, but a team could treat it like a high risk 4th down play as an option.

[@JacobYoung060]

The funny thing about the OT rule is that it was the Chiefs who had previously conceived a proposal to fix the rule. And you wanna guess which team played a big role in it being turned down?

[@WR4264]

Is it the bills??? 😢

[@ArtisticallySavvyPhotography]

Da Bills

[@tyronewilson6463]

2 point conversions were allowed under the AFL rules in the 1960s, before the AFL - NFL merger eliminated them. I would say that the rules differences in the AFL were the same level of rules differences as the MLB had between the AL and NL up until the 2022 CBA, that is to say that most people usually count the games played in the AFL as an independent organization to be equally as valid for stats/records as NFL games during that time period.

[@ArtisticallySavvyPhotography]

I love how noone mentions the fact that the previous year the Chiefs lost to the Patriots in the AFC Championship after the Pats won the toss in overtime and scored a touchdown.

[@lucien9995]

😊😮🎉 8:00 😂

[@lucien9995]

8:❤ 8:44 ❤😂31

[@lucien9995]

8:53 🎉😂 8:58

[@lucien9995]

9:19

[@lucien9995]

9:19 9:19

[@natesullivanw24]

Nobody talks about how the Cheifs went into OT against the Bengals after the Bills game, won the coin toss, and lost because the Bengals played defense

[@IsaacPunts]

Yes but both teams were able to have an offensive drive. I don't think important games should ever just come down to one side of the ball, one way or the other.

[@paulfish6644]

@@IsaacPunts An even better example: no one talks about how the Chiefs lost the exact same way to the Patriots in the AFC Championship game in the 2018-2019 season, and no rule changes were discussed. No one even really complained. As soon as it happened to the Bills a few years later, everyone was up in arms.

[@ArtisticallySavvyPhotography]

No, we complained and the Bills were one of the teams that shot down the idea of a rule change

[@natesullivanw24]

@@ArtisticallySavvyPhotography I know the Bills actually were against the rule change. Probably knew they were cursed to have it bite them in the future

[@qhillis]

@@paulfish6644No, we tried to get the rule changed but the NFL didn’t want to change it back then. So I had 0 sympathy for the Bills when we beat them.

[@Z.zz.z.z.zz..zz.z.z..z.z.z.z.]

The dez catch always gets me bro

[@TyrannoJoris_Rex]

4:24 They went to the AFC Championship and lost to the Bengals

[@kevinmoynihan5118]

The AFL in the 60s also had the two point conversion, but it wasn't adopted during the merger. Also, prior to it's adoption a team could still attempt an offensive play for 1 point.

[@jaywmeinen]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the horse collar tackle. Nice videos. Keep them coming!

[@JayBigDadyCy]

Per the NFL overtime rules, I have no idea why they refuse to adopt the college football overtime rules which are 100% Superior. Also I'm pretty sure the 2 point try was adopted from CFB as well. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that.

[@kyletgillooly93]

Just so you know the tuck rule was used against the patriots earlier that season

[@dustinr1146]

How about the successive offensive penalties to keep the clock rolling? Insert Bill Bellicheck video with Kawhi awkward laugh sound!

[@TheForeverRanger]

He wasn't smiling when Vrabel did the same thing to him.

[@flowingafterglow629]

The fumble rule. Because of the "forward fumble" play by Kenny Stabler and the Raiders in the early 70s, the NFL made the rule that if the offense fumbles (I think in the last 2 minutes only, or maybe it has been expanded), only the player who fumbles the ball can advance it. Therefore, if the QB fumbles the ball, a lineman can't pick it up and advance it.

[@gio6166]

shea mcclellin (Pats Legend) made Jamie Collins (Pats Legend) so proud with that hop

[@MackeyD3]

Preemptively banning something for safety concerns makes far more sense than waiting for a serious injury to do it

[@bartoniuskrunk2366]

I still remember being so excited and then so immediately heart broken watching that cowboys playoff game

[@kylemcbee170]

The big thing with that block on Justin Tucker was that was his only missed kick off the season. He was that close to a perfect season.

[@tygrkhat4087]

The Bills weren't the only team that had complaints about the overtime possession rules; the Chiefs and Falcons had a beef about that in previous years. Also, the AFL had the 2-pt conversion in the 60s, so in addition to the USFL and NCAA; the deuce was known to the NFL.

[@MaxwellWarawa]

The CFL had the two point conversion for a while too. Longer than the USFL

[@nitsuagaming1201]

Not talking about the Calvin Johnson catch is crazy.

[@jdotoz]

"I knew what the ruling should have been because we had dealt with that play a little bit earlier in the year on the other side of it."

[@cmorris9494]

Looks like the tush push is sticking around another season.

[@goalscorerlajon]

The FIELD GOAL POSTS?!? WTF??? They're GOAL POSTS. AMATEUR! I'd call you a ROOKIE but, ROOKIES make a TON OF MONEY. 😂

[@NDB1221]

Talk about the force out rule. A receiver back then could get one foot down and then be forced out to count as a catch 🤯. This rule saved the 2003 Packers season. The Packers needed the Viqueens to lose in order to win the division and let alone make the playoffs. Some guy for the Cardinals named Josh McCown, down 17-6 got the cardinals within 5. All the viqueens had to do was recover the onside kick and they’re NFC North champs. Nope. Later, final play of the game, Josh McCown says a prayer and it’s caught by an obscure WR named Nate Poole. He only had 1 foot down and was forced out. Packers got in. Poole was later given a key to the city in Green Bay. Rule was abolished in like ‘07 or ‘08

[@TheLetsPlayBaseballCurse]

4:25 winner of that game went to the AFCCG, not the Super bowl that year. That same rule DID change the outcome of a championship game a few years before, where the Patriots beat the Chiefs in 2018 when KC never saw the ball in OT. Chiefs proposed the rule change and the Bills were one of the teams who declined- all worth noting, I think.

[@stuffin777]

What about this proposed rule? Allow the end zones to be from 10 to 20 yards deep. Keep the goal posts at the back of the end zone. This makes for more passing options in the red zone and adds more challenge to the kicking game (and allows for some additional seating $$ in new stadiums while not forcing old stadiums to change). Baseball stadiums are of different sizes/shapes and it works just fine. At times even causing some teams to adapt their style/players to their home field where they play half their games.

[@emma12345678961]

The Tuck Rule did go against the Patriots some years earlier (Jets game?) But it a..yeah, you guessed it...Kansas City Chiefs game for it to be cancelled! 😅😅😅

[@gio6166]

In my opinion the 28-3 superbowl is what started the conversation to change the OT rules A bit biased but as a Pats fan, people hate seeing the pats win and james white cashing that "anticlimactic " TD to seal the deal pissed people off

[@silencegaming3227]

The overtime rule change was brought up by the chiefs after the pats overtime loss at the afc championship that took brady to his last superbowl as a patriot, and every nfl team refused and the chiefs were called sore losers, but the moment it happens in thier favor the whole nfl freaks out

[@solodrw9096]

Jumping over the long snapper was cold to see I miss that too bad it’s not allowed

[@SomeGuyFromOK]

3:41 were all going to just forget that Mahomes lost to Brady the year before in OT without even touching the ball himself? Crazy!

[@coreyperdue1966]

Isaac is stepping his game up this year, and I'm noticing it

[@topdogalpha]

I love how the nfl changes OT rules over the bills game as if it had everything on the line but didnt do anything when the falcons didnt get the ball in the superbowl overtime

[@RoyalMela]

Leaping over snapper is banned for a good reason. He is in vunerable position after snapping and has no way to protect himself if opponent leaps over him.

[@jordanfry5138]

I know it's minor, but saying "Dak throws the ball" immediately before the play by play saying it was Romo pops up is really funny to me.

[@TVG_Noble]

As a Long Snapper I can assure you that banning players being able to leap over the line on PATs/XPs is ABSOLUTELY a player safety thing. If someone trips over the snapper and falls on them, or slams them into the ground that could, and probably would, break their neck or at the very least cause some moderate injury. We’re in such a compromised position when snapping the ball I’m all for any rule change that gives us more protection against serious injuries.

[@Burkius]

Didn’t he say it has never happened?

[@TVG_Noble]

⁠@@Burkiusdoesn’t necessarily mean it’s not possible, and isn’t likely. It’s better to prevent injuries before they happen in the first place.

[@Knowbody-zt3wl]

You missed the first miracle at the meadowlands. Before that you couldn't kneel the ball, after that game you could.

[@Michael-sb8jf]

You could always do that. Coaches at the time thought it was below of them to do it. Made a mockery of the game etc

[@Knowbody-zt3wl]

@@Michael-sb8jf yes, you could kneel before the meadowlands, but the QB wouldn't be down until someone touched them, so the ball could still be stripped. After the meadowlands the QB was down when he kneeled

[@nicholasb8900]

Bengals Vs Ravens when they held all the defensive players on the last play of the game to run the clock out and win.

[@milliethesillie]

edelman did catch that though, obviously didn't hit the ground until after they had clear possession of the ball

[@sportsloverbaseball]

4:29 correction: they were going to the AFC Championship. This was the 2021-2022 season. The following week, the Bengals would beat the Chiefs 27 to 24 in overtime to go to the Super Bowl (which they then lost 23-20 to the Rams. Eli Apple)

[@MrConverse]

Jesse James caught that ball!

[@jamespusey7186]

it's a shame thay we're gonna miss out on great vids like this when isaac goes pro :(

[@silkyhank]

The Bills crying they lost because of the OT rule they didn't want changed when it screwed the Chiefs over is such delicious karma. Also interesting how the Eagles wanted a rule change under the guise of player safety while defending the tush push which is far more likely to cause injury is predictable.

[@Z.zz.z.z.zz..zz.z.z..z.z.z.z.]

love your commentary bro

[@dillimore]

Thought the Saints-Rams no PI call was pretty obvious, as it made it possible to challenge PI (no-)calls, even if only for one season lol

[@prroBaller69]

the kenny pickett fake slide has to be here

[@johnnybraut]

Is the tush push still legal? Seems like it will be banned if not.

[@chimericalical]

As a Steelers fan who most certainly does not care for the cowboys at all I gotta say, Dez Caught the fucking ball. Also, hi… I’m 40. So, USFL was not the only place where 2 point conversions existed prior to existing in the NFL. High school and college rules allowed for 2pt conversions. And sure, the USFL was a pro league that had 2pt conversions before the NFL but high school and college allowed for them as well. And this next part is speculation, but I assume the reason they were in college and high school while not in the NFL was that a great deal of lower tiered College teams and even decent high school teams don’t have kickers or anyone on the team who knows how to kick. So they gave the option for an alternative option to score points and seeing how its way more difficult to score running a play than kick with a half competent kicker at point blank range they increased the points given. When I was in high school the rule had been a thing for almost a decade by that point, and yet, a lot of teams we played against didn’t have the luxury of having someone on the team who can consistently kick an extra point or field goals really at all. Our team had 4 players who also played soccer, which gave us a significant advantage given we don’t feel a need to go for it on 4th down everytime, can easily score 3 points as long as we’re at the 40, and get essentially a confirmed 7 points whenever we get a TD instead of 6 with the slight chance of 2 more. I always assumed that’s why 2 point conversions existed was the lack of skilled kicking in high school, but I’m not sure. Fuck it, I’ll look it up. I can’t find anything immediately available talking about the origins of why it became a rule, but I’m still gonna read up on it a bit later.

[@Z.zz.z.z.zz..zz.z.z..z.z.z.z.]

dope video, very in depth

[@danshobbies13]

Pittsburgh got screwed by the catch rule.

[@superfish60]

Not having the Saints no call is crazy in my eyes

[@jordanfry5138]

I mean, they technically changed the rule, but they sabotaged the reviews so they could change it back, so it's not like it actually changed anything longterm.

[@Gonzo-76]

Overloading one side on an onside kick.

[@driiizydrew4924]

That bills game hurt me and I’m not even a bills fan

[@kyletgillooly93]

Them switching the overtime rules was the dumbest thing ever just because the bills couldn't play defense for like 20 seconds they went and bitched

[@bradywolfe362]

Tackling the qb so now you can't touch the qb

[@AndrewSchulteis]

As a Packers fan, well, you know what rule…. But I did find an interview where A. Rodgers said that he thought it was a catch

[@carthagegaming5545]

As a pack fan, it wasn't a catch according to the rules. But it should have been.

[@MichaelAngeloMedrano]

Btw the ball never touched the ground on the dez Bryant catch. Idk what you saw there

[@kustombypook]

It did touch the ground, after his third step, switching the ball from his left hand to his right hand, and leap toward the pylon. That is why the ball moved slightly.

[@aaronshoup]

Where was the Holy Roller play and rule change?

[@mattcasey5991]

Lyle alzado rule. Not allowed to use someone's helmet as a weapon

[@nathangifford1424]

Cowboys fans keep whining about being screwed without the self awarenees that the cowboys benefitted from the Lions being blatantly screwed over the week before.

[@ryetee123]

Jesse James caught the ball

[@k29king1]

Its really rich that the Eagles of all teams pushed for a play to get banned and complained about it being exploited. They are the Filthadelphia Cheaters after all.

[@lsparks1110]

Dak throws up a prayer hahaha im pretty sure that romo lol

[@samharris7601]

Man didn't even mention the Calvin Johnson rule

[@bsmith8943]

Bills cried so hard they got rules changed.

[@blkhawk661]

low hits on the QB... aka..the kimo von olhaufen (sp?) rule... tore up carson palmer's knee in wild card round of steelers SB run

[@marquanmr]

Shoulda did the force out rule

[@TyrannoJoris_Rex]

8:30 USFL was mid-'80s

[@TyrannoJoris_Rex]

Also the AFL had the 2-point conversion throughout its existence

[@Voxanova]

Hotfixed this bug 😭

[@drizzyqurkel]

People forget the Chiefs lost to that very same rule against the Patriots tho

[@TuckerTheMandolinist]

very interesting

[@Tpalm54]

um actually the bills chiefs game wasn't the afc championship. the chiefs lost next week to the bengals who fucking dey

[@Michael-sb8jf]

Probably a mis remember from. The previous championship game

[@ArtisticallySavvyPhotography]

Or difficult to remember a team that hasn't been able to win a super bowl yet

[@blkhawk661]

crack back block... aka.. the hines ward rule... broke bengals LB keith rivers' jaw

[@M0v3rsandSh00t3rs]

False the greatest final 2 minutes in NFL history is the Ravens vs Vikings 2013 on my bday… 36 points scored between the two in that span

[@williamdowling7718]

"hey hey hey! You cant do that. You could get hurt!" Ok.. so no running, passing, tackling, or.......... Playing football?

[@deansch6089]

USFL was 80s, not 90s. 1983-85.

[@timmytwotone6826]

Bills fan here personally I think that rule change is awful I can't stand it

[@sethkern7268]

I mean the Chief are the new golden boys so anything will go their way in the future

[@roytimberlake]

The tuck rule was a football god's payback for daryl stingley. Sorry.

[@brad8749]

Dak will be a raider or seahawk next year

[@limegreenelevator]

Um... a lot of misinfo here on the tuck rule. -Regardless of the quality of the rule, the call was correct according to that rule. So it was not a "bad call" nor was it "allegedly" an incomplete pass; by nature of the rule, it was an incomplete pass. It may have been a bad rule, but the call was right. -It was not the first time the Tuck Rule had been called even that season. The Pats had it called against them (i.e. overturning a forced fumble and recovery) in Week 2 of '01. -The Pats abstained from the vote that abolished the tuck rule; they didn't vote for (or against) its abolishment. I like your stuff, but jhst missed a lot here. Your penance is to make a video about the field goal Vinatieri made to tie the game... 45 yards through a driving wind and snow.

[@Growing-MJ]

Ummm what about troy palamalu

[@Z.zz.z.z.zz..zz.z.z..z.z.z.z.]

yooo bro i didn't know you were sick with it

[@elliotwalton6159]

Bring back Stickum!

[@dylanvaccaro6919]

Bills fan here. Why

[@andymanouki7758]

Bills were not in favor nor did they push for a rule change bro. get your facts correct

[@67L48]

Slow the video down enough and everything is a catch ... and nothing is a catch.