We are now in the “post-football” part of football season. For those of us who are die-hard fans, and if you’ve ever worked in the sports world, you know it’s always football season. 

Philadelphia Eagles fans are just now sobering up from their Super Bowl victory a few weeks back and yesterday they learned of a “flag on the play”, to borrow a football term, that could affect their team. 

Over the last couple of seasons, the Eagles have become famous for the “Tush Push” or the “Brotherly Shove”, it’s basically a quarterback sneak with lots of pushing from behind the quarterback. Philly picked up tons of first downs and a lot of touchdowns on that play. 

Yesterday at the NFL announced that a team had proposed that league change the rule and make this play illegal. Obviously, this would be a big change to how teams would play next season. 

Could that also affect high school football in Minnesota?  

Last season as I broadcast high school football here for the first time, and several teams ran this type of play regularly. Only once all season was it called a penalty, even though technically it is supposed to be against the rules. 

All sports fans know that what happens at the professional level trickles down to the high school ranks, so if the NFL finally called this play improper would that cause other divisions to do it too? 

The NFL made this play legal in 2005 and the college ranks followed in 2013.  

NFL owners could vote on this next month at the spring meetings. For now, let the bickering back and forth ensue for and against this play.  

And we’ll see if this play will be allowed next year in Minnesota high school football.  

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