Late Hit Vault: Jim McMahon Body Slammed 3 Seconds After Throw [Video]

Think about what you think a late hit is in 2011. Now watch the video below.

Where were you on November 23, 1986 when Jim McMahon was snuck up on by a 300-pound giant who subsequently pummeled his bad shoulder into the turf like soft ground beef? Playing with Ninja Turtles? Mike Tyson’s Punch Out?

Let’s face it, this new brand of football is for p*****s. Pretty soon a Tom Brady interception is going to be worth 1 point for the Patriots. You wouldn’t want to hurt his feelings would you?

The video below reminds me of what football used to be like. And while I’m not saying that Charles Martin going WWF on Jim McMahon well after the play is a slice of the golden oldies, there has to be a happy medium.

Maybe the nineties were the s**t and we just didn’t realize it. Isn’t that how these things go?

But I digress. This video below is unbelievable. Could you imagine the media explosion if Joey Porter body slammed Eli Manning three seconds after he threw the ball?

What kind of suspension do you think he’d get? Lifetime? Double lifetime?

Then-commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended Martin for TWO FUCKING GAMES. That’s right. Watch it again and say to yourself, “two games, two games” over and over.

Believe it or not, it was — at the time — the longest suspension for any player for an on-field transgression.

Rozelle deadpanned “‘In other aggressive acts against quarterbacks, the quarterback at least still had the ball or the ball was in play. That wasn’t the case this time.”

No s**t.