"It also seems like people have been hitting differently - going for the upper body instead of the legs."

Well, seeing as how the league instituted the Brady Rule preventing you from hitting the QB below the knees, and will likely expand that to cover any player, where should a guy get hit? I wouldn't complain about nixing the face masks & going back to leather helmets or, even better, old school helmets with minimal inside padding and a single bar across the face. The massive face cages and inflatible air cushion helmet liners make the game too safe.

Oh, and the second one made me chuckle. That jolly old fat man will never see it coming.

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If you kill me it's self defense
And if I kill ya' then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You'll be afraid when I call out your name