Over the past 2-3 weeks, I’ve been watching something called the A7FL. It’s a 7-man football league with modified rules but their most obvious difference is that nobody wears helmets or hard shoulder pads. The league claims this will cause fewer concussions or cases of CTE because their players are taught to tackle by making initial hits with the torso and then wrapping up the ballcarrier or receiver…they say players easily accept that because who wants to bang their unprotected head?
The settings and level of play is somewhere between semipro and the NFL Street video games, but the product itself is interesting to watch and the A7FL is expanding rapidly. It MAY catch fire because people protesting football’s existense usually point to the concussions and brain trauma, two things that don’t appear to happen in A7FL games.
Who know? It’s definitely wide-open football and entertaining in its own way (you can watch them on YouTube), although the play-by-play announcers really need to dial it back a bit.
Over the past 2-3 weeks, I’ve been watching something called the A7FL. It’s a 7-man football league with modified rules but their most obvious difference is that nobody wears helmets or hard shoulder pads. The league claims this will cause fewer concussions or cases of CTE because their players are taught to tackle by making initial hits with the torso and then wrapping up the ballcarrier or receiver…they say players easily accept that because who wants to bang their unprotected head?
The settings and level of play is somewhere between semipro and the NFL Street video games, but the product itself is interesting to watch and the A7FL is expanding rapidly. It MAY catch fire because people protesting football’s existense usually point to the concussions and brain trauma, two things that don’t appear to happen in A7FL games.
Who know? It’s definitely wide-open football and entertaining in its own way (you can watch them on YouTube), although the play-by-play announcers really need to dial it back a bit.