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Originally Posted by Prodigal Son
If you really wanted to make a football analogy, you'd have to use a position that was fundamentally different from all the others. So maybe a punter. A pitcher is like a punter--and there are a ton of different rules for engaging the punter on the football field compared to the other positions. Same with the kicker. Same with the QB, for that matter. You can hit every other player with the ball below the knees except for him.
It's not unprecedented for sports to treat unique positions far differently than the others. Hell, soccer goalies can use their hands.
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Except those rules were made to protect a player from injury. A better analogy would be kicking or punting a ball, waiting for the catch, pausing the game to trot out someone who can actually tackle well, then resuming the play. As it is, punters may have to tackle too.