{"id":76687,"date":"2025-05-25T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/76687\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:42:09","slug":"examining-the-fate-of-sports-three-most-controversial-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/76687\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining the fate of sports&#8217; three most controversial rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tush Push lives to see another year, somehow, despite what sure seemed like an overwhelming and inevitable bit of momentum to get banned. Most teams wanted to get rid of it. But <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/21\/sports\/tush-push-survives-as-nfl-owners-vote-not-to-ban-controversial-play\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">six of them voted to keep it<\/a>. One \u2014 the Philadelphia Eagles \u2014 owes the other five an enormous debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes 24 votes to pass anything,\u201d NFL competition chairman Rich McKay, CEO of the Atlanta Falcons, said after the motion for banishment failed. \u201cWe don\u2019t set a low bar. I\u2019ve been in that room numerous times where we\u2019ve had these types of discussions and one team really ends up being in their mind more impacted than others. It still takes 24 votes. In this case, those votes were not there. So, the rule will stay as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This inspired an interesting thought from a regularly insightful reader of Open Mike, John Lovisolo:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s better or worse: the Tush Push in the NFL, the Hack-a-Shaq in the NBA, or the infield shift in MLB?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tush Push lives to see another year, somehow, despite what sure seemed like an overwhelming and inevitable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,22253,109,22254,9,2833,3248,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-76687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-open-mike","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-reggie-miller","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-commanders","19":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114565699941716946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}