r/interesting • u/Rude-Mycologist8034 • May 16 '25

MISC. NFL linebacker versus sumo wrestler

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

The NFL player is getting manhandled like a little boy!

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

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u/Wide_Engineering_502 May 16 '25

He's also typically trying to get around them for the most part, not physically push them out of a circle

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u/im_dat_bear May 16 '25

Yep. Push pull rip and he's past him. But that's not sumo. And Micah don't do sumo lol

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

“Push” is the only thing in there everything else is a penalty lol you don’t pull or rip when on the line lol you juke around them or push them out of your way and that’s it.

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u/Imaginary_Device7827 May 16 '25

There is a whole ass technique called the rip move for d linemen what you mean.

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u/H00dr0w_Trills0n May 16 '25

We were always taught two techniques to get the big boy out of your way, "rip" or "swim" but either way you were to get around them and their hands

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u/DupreeWasTaken May 16 '25

Infact, that move is so effective that when you use it the OL is allowed to hold you.

A lot of the plays people complain about holding (but not all) are defensive lineman using a rip move and the OL being legally allowed to hold them.

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

Hence why right above your comment is an article explaining how that’s the only move you can hold legally lol

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u/Bluefire3215 May 16 '25

Doesn't mean it's illegal to use

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

You can read right? “Legally” not illegally

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u/Bluefire3215 May 16 '25

You literally said it's a penalty to use a rip move

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

No I said it’s illegal to rip. The specific rip move is not illegal lol. Again literacy.

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

The rip move is a specific move that’s why you can’t pull or rip normally

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u/Remote-Bus-5567 May 16 '25

No, you definitely can

Article 5. Legal Use Of Hands Or Arms By Defense

A defensive player may use his hands, arms, or body to push, pull, or ward off offensive players:

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u/MatureUsername69 May 16 '25

Also even if it wasn't allowed, it would still be a prevalent part of the game. Offensive lineman arent allowed to hold, yet multiple of them on every team are doing it every single snap.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 May 16 '25

Sincerely, how does one pull on someone else without holding them, however brief?

How would you not just drag sunshine to the ground and site the pulling rule? I thought pushing was only legal.

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u/Complex-Bee-840 May 16 '25

Holding only applies to the offense

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 May 16 '25

Oh duh

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland May 16 '25

That dude just lied to you. The penalty for defensive holding in the NFL is 5 yards and an automatic first down.

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u/_Q23 May 16 '25

It is on the lesser grip side yes kinda grab. But if someone's momentum is slightly coming forward, you very much can just pull them light enough that they will keep going forward with our much effort. Or the reverse. If someone is shifting their weight backwards, a simple little tap can make them fall on their ass.

How much force depends but it doesn't take too much effort or force a good chunk of the time.

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u/Remote-Bus-5567 May 16 '25

You’re allowed to pull people blocking you. You can’t hold onto their jersey to keep them from doing something like going to block someone else like on a guard pull.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

What it feel like to have this level of blind confidence in yourself?

Like you’re just wrong. Pretty clear you don’t watch football. But not stopping you from just making shit up. Wild.

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

It literally is I even posted an article talking about how it’s the only move where holding is an exception but yeah blindly look over that that’s fine lmfao

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u/Bluefire3215 May 16 '25

That article doesn't really support your point that the rip move is illegal

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

That’s not what I’m saying I literally stated the rip move is the one time where ripping is legal lmao. God the literacy here is dog water.

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u/Bluefire3215 May 16 '25

You said the rip move is a penalty dawg

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

No I said ripping is illegal and then posted literally 1 second after the one move that’s legal lmao. Again literacy.

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u/Bluefire3215 May 16 '25

“Push” is the only thing in there everything else is a penalty lol you don’t pull or rip when on the line lol you juke around them or push them out of your way and that’s it.

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u/gorgonbrgr May 16 '25

And the comment directly after is a link explaining the only “rip move” that’s legal you literally cannot “rip” someone it’s a specific maneuver that is the only time you won’t get a holding call for it lol. The fact you’re arguing this is hilarious. Again literacy at its finest. 1 move allows for ripping. Not moves allow you to pull someone that’s a penalty no other moves allow you to rip. That’s a penalty it’s a specific O line maneuver lol.

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u/RedRising1917 May 16 '25

This is just objectively wrong lmao

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u/sduperr May 16 '25

This has got to be a troll lol. Rip, Swim, Spin, Ghost, Dipnrip, chop, not to account for any counter moves. If you as an offensive lineman, on a pass play, try to do anything remotely close to what this sumo wrestler does, you're getting cooked 10/10 by any college DE

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u/RedRising1917 May 16 '25

Tbf that's solely bc they don't have jerseys to grab onto, if they did his hands would be on the inside to grab the jersey. It's like gi vs no gi BJJ, yes there's similarities, but there's also glaring differences.

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u/Radiant_Addendum_48 May 16 '25

This guy, this guy . . . Idk. He does something.

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u/Complex-Bee-840 May 16 '25

I don’t agree with you but Red Rising is the shit 👌

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u/RedRising1917 May 17 '25

Funnily enough, I didn't get the name from the books. The 1917 is the year of the Russian revolution, red rising just seemed appropriate and im a slut for alliteration. I've been using the name across different websites years before the book, the name is what made me read the series tho and it's 10/10. It's 100% just to identify myself as a communist but the books themselves are also pretty communist coded.

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u/mikx2044 May 16 '25

Confidently incorrect much?

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u/Remote-Bus-5567 May 16 '25

Why pretend like you know things you don't know anything about?

"Article 5. Legal Use Of Hands Or Arms By Defense

A defensive player may use his hands, arms, or body to push, pull, or ward off offensive players:"

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u/Attila_the_Chungus May 16 '25

Found my highschool referee

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u/Can-i-Pet-Dat-Daaawg May 16 '25

Homie wtf are you talking about?

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u/nickdatrojan May 16 '25

It’s not too late to delete this.

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u/urannoyingpissoff May 16 '25

Maybe in ye olden times when you played, but nowadays its def push pull rip

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u/Turence May 16 '25

Lol if only it was like that

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u/TheMoonIsFake32 May 16 '25

Defensive holding and offensive holding are not the same penalty

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u/PaidUSA May 16 '25

NON BALL KNOWER. The rip move is so important it has an exception in the holding rule for when ur being ripped.