Players So Good They FORCED Rule Changes

How is the greatness of an athlete well measured? For most people it's about the number of medals

they

've won or records

they

've broken, but some athletes and

players

are so talented, innovative or just plain devious at their chosen sport that the

rule

s had to change. Change to suit his crazy skills from showing off mid-race to using underhanded tactics to score a victory, it's time to take a look at the

players

and athletes with skills so groundbreaking they had to change the

rule

s, Ricky's Rule, Ricky Williams was a talented college football player who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints straight out of college in 1999.

A powerful running back, Ricky quickly established himself as a fast and intimidating presence during the game off the field. He was known for his striking sense of style and his long signature. dreadlocks, however, opposing players were so difficult to drop that they began grabbing and pulling his hair to make their tackles against him hit harder. Although Williams was a powerhouse, hair pulling proved to be an effective way to stop or slow down their loads, many players were hesitant to do so. do it, although after all it's hard to argue that hair pulling isn't a dirty tactic, but at the time it was a gray area after much deliberation in 2003 the NFL decided that hair was officially an extension of the uniform and that hair Pulling would be allowed to continue adding insult to injury, the Ricky rule was even coined to keep one's head or what was left of it in the game.

Ricky had to part with his signature. Make many fans this rule that is still in play today. It reeks of hypocrisy because just two years later the maneuver known as the horse collar tackle was made illegal. The horse collar tackle is when one player grabs the back of another's uniform near the shoulders and pulls him to the ground. A player named Roy Williams with no relation to Ricky became famous for his constant use of the dangerous technique. This eventually came to an end because in 2004 alone, Roy seriously injured four other players and the technique was eventually declared illegal in 2005.

Looking at a horse collar tackle next to hair pulling doesn't seem to make much difference, does it still? Football is still one of the few professional sports where pulling hair to stop a

good

athlete in his tracks is okay? I thought this was the NFL, not schoolyard backflips on ice, if you will. As a top-level figure skater, you'd think the Olympics were the place to show off your most impressive moves. That's why it's so strange that in 1976 the Olympic committee banned one of the most amazing moves a skater can perform: the backflip. During his routine at the 1976 Olympic games, figure skater Terry Kubica wowed the crowd by performing a backflip while glided across the ice (the first in the history of Olympic ice skating);

However, without warning, the international ice skating union immediately banned the move; The reasons for doing so were not entirely clear. Although they vaguely suggested that the move might damage the ice or be too dangerous, they ultimately decided that Terry's move was not a true backflip since it landed on both feet and jumps in ice skating should only land on one foot, therefore , this kind of movement should not. To tell Terry and his many fans, this was as confusing as it was frustrating, but Serya Bonnelly, a French ice skater who grew up watching Terry, decided that this decision would not stop her from showing off her best moves during the 1998 Olympics.

Surya , who was expected to take home the gold wowed the crowd by doing the impossible by performing a backflip and landing on just a totally illegal skate backflip in competition she is doing this to answer the question surya knew the move was illegal but she did it Anyway, to prove that it was possible to skate with an injured foot, she was pretty sure she wouldn't win gold, so she decided to protest the old decision and put on a show at the same time. Despite this incredible display, the backflips continue. being illegal at international skating union events, but Surya proved the rule was ridiculous.

The whole world, what a boss now, I bet most of you can't do a backflip on land let alone ice, hell I have to sit down a little if I get up too fast but you know what you can do , that's even more impressive. Hit those like and subscribe buttons, double points if you hit them both at the same time. What amazing athletes do we have next? Sucky tactics. Eddie Stanky was a major league baseball player in the 1940s and 1950s who developed quite a negative reputation, aptly nicknamed the Brat and wasn't afraid to play dirty during a game in 1951.

He was running to second base when he kicked the ball from a baseman's hand just before using the fight to slyly run to third base in most of his other games when it was the opposing team's turn to bat, Eddie would jump up and down, make faces spin in circles and even made noises to throw off whoever was batting. This quickly became known as the stinking maneuver, which sounds as hilariously bad as I'm sure it was. Witnessing these underhanded and annoying tactics meant that many other players really disliked Eddie, including his own manager, Leo Duracher, saying that Eddie can't hit, can't run and can't field.

All the little son of a bitch can do is win even though the stinking maneuver was Technically legal, the other players got so frustrated with Eddie that it once led to a huge fight in the dugout that the police had to break up after. Because of that, the MLB had no choice but to implement a rule that made it illegal to intentionally distract opposing players, no wonder even his own teammates called him a brat although with a last name like stanky, you have to wonder if that nickname was not even necessary shaq don't break shaquille o'neal is without a doubt one of the best professional basketball players of all time in his In his 18-year career, he made more than 2,600 dunks and was formidable on the court thanks to his agility, explosiveness and his gigantic eight-foot-tall shaq was so

good

that opposing teams developed strategies just to deal with him while formulating these anti-shack strategies they realized something, while shaq was a dunking machine, he stunk.

When it came to distance shots, in fact, in Shaq's entire career, he only managed to hit one shot from the distant three-point line, leading his opponents to develop a simple strategy whenever they thought Shaq was going to do it. one dunk, they would force him to shoot. How did they manage well? They hugged him. They literally embraced it now in basketball, when you foul a player like this, your team is penalized until now. Very good, however, the penalty. is that the player who received the foul can make a free throw and after that free throw the ball is returned to the team that committed the foul.

Now this insidious tactic is starting to make sense, isn't it? This strategy was as effective as it was annoying with Shaq drawing the foul. constantly on one occasion in the first five seconds of a quarter, but he was so bad at making free throws that he once missed all 11 free throws he made in a single game, the new hack-a-shack was so predictable and Annoyed fans began booing their own teams for doing so, eventually Shaq himself demanded something be done and a new rule was implemented stating that any foul away from the ball would give the opposing team a free throw and possession, but only in the two last. minutes into the fourth quarter, this meant that the hacker shack was still allowed, but it was much less advantageous for the offending team, although this wouldn't be the only rule Shaq implemented, as you see in his prime, Shaq was a Absolute beast of a man upon entering.

At 7 foot 1 and 324 pounds, he was closer to the weight of a sumo wrestler than any other basketball player. It's no wonder then that Shaq developed a reputation for breaking and destroying boards into pieces. Eventually the NBA got so tired of cleaning up broken board fragments they had to implement a rule that penalizes teams that broke them before asking why they didn't just make the boards out of something stronger, ask yourself this, how many times could you be dunked by a sumo wrestler before falling apart? , yeah, that's what I thought Candy's Curveball It's hard to believe that curveballs were once a new technique considering how integral they are to a baseball game now, but when they made their debut on the field they caused a lot of problems, perfected by pitcher Candy Cummings, the curveball is a method of throwing a baseball that causes it to travel forward before suddenly dropping or curving in another direction, if the pitcher is skilled enough, he can time his curveball to change direction just before it reaches the batter, while this is a pretty standard pitch today when Sweets first developed a technique back in the 1870s, it was almost unstoppable, the motion was so different and new that no one could see it coming or prepare for it, many hitters were simply baffled when dealing with a well-thrown curveball, as a result, curveballs were briefly banned. on the grounds of being dishonest, although the ban proved ineffective and was lifted soon after, the measure was too tempting and changeable to prevent other pitchers from realizing and using it.

Today, curveballs are common in the major leagues of baseball and some are so fast and I would like to make even Candy's head spin by turning it. Travis Pastrana is a car and motorcycle racer with a well-earned reputation as a daredevil in his dangerous driving career. Pastrana has broken 60 bones and survived 25 concussions, in some cases he barely escaped with his life. One of those exciting experiences came in 2006 at the Daytona supercross, just as Travis crossed the finish line as he was about to win the qualifying race. Travis decided it was time to show off and attempted a celebratory turn.

Unfortunately, he ended up crashing hard, but by a crazy stroke of luck, he miraculously avoided getting seriously hurt and the crowd ate it up. This resulted in the American Motorcycle Association creating a new rule for performing backflips and tricks during or after races. They might as well have called Travis naming tall problems nowadays it's hard to imagine a basketball team that doesn't have at least one player approaching seven feet tall, but this wasn't always the case back in 1948 george miken broke records and the rules of the game standing at an impressive six foot ten to put this into perspective, the average height among the rest of his teammates was just under six foot two, practically making him a giant next to them.

Miken was so tall, in fact, that the game as it stood didn't really work. Although he is no longer a slow guy by any means, Miken didn't actually have to move much to be an effective player. He would simply position himself in one area of ​​the court and use his long arms to deny goal-scoring shots with ease. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA for short, instituted an anti-goal rule in 1945 solely because of him and yes, you heard right, this was when he was still in college, but the change still wasn't enough to compensate for Miken's height. . the lanes themselves had to be widened from 6 feet to 12 feet just to give other players room to maneuver.

The courts would have to be changed again a few decades later, when the legendary seven-foot-tall Wilt Chamberlain entered the game according to the math we're doing. a little late for another court change any minute come on nba taco fall stands seven foot five brilliant bile simone bile is the most successful gymnast in United States history and has won a staggering combined total of 32 Olympic and world championship medals Known for her extreme precision and core strength, Biles is regularly able to perform entire moves and routines that other gymnasts wouldn't think to attempt, but she is so talented.

US Gymnastics had to change the way they score certain moves, such as the double double dismount, which is now known simply as Biles for safety reasons, not for Simone's safety, but for everyone else's. The committee's reasoning was that the moves Simone was incorporating into her routines were so dangerous and complex that they wanted to discourage other athletes from trying them. If she did not perform them correctly, the committee reasoned it could lead to injury. or even death, therefore, it would be irresponsible to assign them high scores and pressure theless skilled athletes to try. As a result of this decision, many of Simone's moves had their point values ​​reduced to put it plainly, Simone is so far ahead of the rest of the US.

Gymnastics' governing body believes other athletes could die trying. to reach it. They talk about being in a baseball league of their own. Some things are beyond the reach of even the most skilled players if, for example, you want a foul ball to roll backwards. all you can really do is cross your fingers and hope that the ball's momentum sends it back across the line on its own, unless you're lenny randall in 1981, kansas city royals outfielder amos otis, He hit the ball at an imperfect angle and began slowly rolling toward third base, just inside the foul line, intending this to be a foul ball.

Seattle Mariners player Lenny Randall got down on his knees and began blowing on the ball furiously. Randall blew hard enough to make the ball move a few inches. on the foul line even though what Randall did was not technically against the rules and was considered a big play, the Royals manager complained that Randle had illegally altered the course of the ball. Randall denied it, claiming that he had actually been yelling at the ball, but the umpire didn't believe it and Otis was awarded first base after the game. The baseball league immediately took steps to ensure this type of thing would not happen again.

The illegal tampering rule was changed to specifically include a ban on blowing the ball if only this hadn't changed we could have seen leaf blowers added to the MLB equipment roster, the real stinker after an intense workout for a big game, most athletes choose to take a shower, some even shower several times a day just to keep this stench of sweat at bay. but according to his teammates not adam morrisonBelieve it or not, this man was a professional basketball player who spent all day sweating and without time to shower, he would wake up for hours practicing trips and play real games without even touching a bar of soap, to To make matters worse, Morrison reportedly only had a set of three t-shirts in which he rode his bike and constantly chewed and spit tobacco.

These facts combined to make Morrison one of the stinkiest, nastiest players you'll ever see or smell in professional basketball. Some charitable fans have argued that this was an intentional ploy by Morrison to keep opposing players away from him on the court, but others have pointed out that this never seemed to stop other players from approaching him. A simpler explanation is that the guy was hired when he was a teenager and never outgrew his disgusting habits, though he didn't. The decision was once officially attributed to Morrison. Since then, specific hygiene rules have been included in the NBA's official health and safety protocol.

If this made you feel bad for Morrison's colleagues, imagine how bad it was for his girlfriend. Banana Blades, let's talk about Banana Blades, not Banana Blade. It's not something a monkey would try to mug you with, it's an illegal piece of hockey equipment accidentally invented by Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull during a routine practice. The story goes that in the 1960s, Makita accidentally hit a door leading to the street with his hockey stick. The blade took on a bent banana-like shape, thinking this was a fun hole and Makita continued practicing normally, but he realized something crazy.

The banana cleaver was actually really useful. Making shots with a banana blade is different than making shots with a regular club. The shots become wilder and harder to predict, almost like candy curveballs, but soon after, in hockey, every team wanted to play using banana blades; In the 60's you would see some sticks bent cartoonishly at their peak, players would just let one fly with a swing, hoping the strange behavior of the puck would beat the goalie, the players loved it, but the poor goalies On the receiving end they hated it. After a while, the National Hockey League began limiting the amount of curve a stick could now have resting between a half and three-quarters of an inch.

While many fans were disappointed by this, the goalkeepers certainly weren't a step away. Tom Dempsey was a talented football player who once held the record for the longest field goal in American football history in 1970. Dempsey did what no player had done before scoring a field goal from an astonishing distance of 63 yards for A prospect as long as the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the record stood for over 40 years and what makes this achievement even more impressive is the fact that Dempsey was born without any toes on one of his feet. Feet His entire professional career Dempsey played with a prosthetic foot, leading some in the NFL to think that the specialized, blunt shoe he wore on his kicking foot was giving him some sort of advantage.

There was absolutely no evidence behind this claim, but that didn't stop the NFL from implementing a strangely specific rule in 1977, the newly minted Dempsey rule requiring that shoes worn by players with an artificial limb must have a kicking surface. that fit that of a normal shoe, as disabled players did not have. He was tough enough, Tiger by name, at the height of his career, Tiger Woods was nearly unstoppable, winning 82 PGA Tours, 15 Majors and has accumulated the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history. . Other players reportedly had to train using clubs with oversized heads to match or even approach the distance Tiger was reaching, which is why many courses across the United States attempted to tiger-proof their greens.

The idea was to make their courses longer with the holes placed further apart so Tiger couldn't get through them as easily. You can see? The problem with this solution by toughening a course for Tiger ended up making the courses much more difficult for everyone else, by many estimates, Tiger Woods single-handedly made golf a more difficult sport to play because now, to play professionally, you must be able to compete. In the larger fields, he helped make the norm. Have you ever tried to play golf only to find it too difficult and before asking? No mini golf doesn't count, let me know in the comments.

Fabiolas vert skating or vertical skating refers to any skating, whether on a board or on blades, it is done on a vertical ramp, so it is the skating you do if you are especially crazy and don't mind breaking every bone in your body . This did not discourage Fabiola de Silva, although she affectionately calls her Fabi. To her many fans, Fabi was an absolute beast on the pipe, leaving her competition in the dust and performing many crazy maneuvers like this, for example, Fabiola too, unfortunately, when Fabi was starting to make a name for herself in the '90s, Vertical skating was an all-men's event at the X Games.

This was frustrating as Fappy was miles ahead of the women's competition and regularly performed better than her male counterparts. Finally, after much fan demand, the fabiola rule was introduced in 2000, allowing women to compete in the previously all-male fabiola event. She has regularly finished in the top 10 alongside male skaters, has won seven gold medals and has become the first woman to perform a double backflip on a vertical ramp and to think that sometimes the stairs in my own house are too steep for me, the eternal fight. 1982 the sports world could only talk about one upcoming event: the boxing match between king boom boom mancini and kim dukku both fighters were in excellent physical condition at the top of their games and were motivated to win too motivated to participate today in One day professional boxing matches have a 12 round limit and something called a mandatory eight count, this is where the referee calls a timeout after the player is knocked down, watches the boxer for eight seconds and then decides whether or not he is in. good form to continue fighting, but In 1982, fights lasted 15 rounds and eight counts were terribly not mandatory.

Mancini and Kim fought an absolutely grueling round bout with each boxer punching the other and refusing to give in after a close loss. Kim was beaten so brutally. He was put on life support and sadly passed away just a few days later. The event became even more tragic when Kim's mother and the referee took their own lives. The consequences were so horrible that they led to the implementation of 12-round eight-count limits. and better trained medical staff on site during the fights, disturbingly, Kim knew this outcome was a possibility. She reportedly trained in a room with a coffin and told her manager at the end of this match, either Mancini is going home with it or I'm my God, I guess. too motivated can be bad, slapdown hockey is a very dangerous sport, in addition to pucks that can travel up to 100 miles per hour, fights that are practically recommended in the rules and frequent spins on rock hard ice, you also have to deal . with dismemberment, well, if you ever played against Sydney Crosby, you did.

Crosby was a fan of the technique known as cutting. This is when you swing your stick at an opponent to scare and psych them up, but sometimes physical contact is made in 2017. Crosby took the court from him. skills a little too far when passing to the opposing player method mark crosby unleashed a brutal cut right on mark's hand so brutal that in fact he ended up taking a piece of the poor guy's finger off to clean it, ouch, this act disgusted even the Crosby's own fans and led the NHL to seriously reexamine cutting while the practice remains technically legal.

Slashing penalties skyrocketed after the incident from 792 in 2016 to over 1,250 in 2017. I guess it's nice to see that, ironically, the number of players getting away with this underhanded tactic has been Slashed Which of these Which players did you think was the best and which one do you think was the dirtiest? Let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching.