"This should come as little surprise to those who have studied the broader American condition, but we often hate the very things that we should find most comforting and beneficial. No, we are not discussing vegetables. Those are objectively wrong no matter how they are prepared or justified. You cannot glaze your way to paradise, and something being good for you not only does not make it good, it often makes it a provable indecency."
"Rather, we speak here of placekickers, who are all too often condemned as being an alien part of football. It doesn't help that the best of them look like librarians, and that the nature of their job keeps them from engaging in enough sociopathic brain-on-brain contact to qualify for what we call football. In fact, though, kickers are not only vital to the sport in that they provide the only reliable scoreboard variations that make end-of-game chaos possible,"
Many Americans reject comforting, beneficial things, sometimes treating what is good for them as indecent. Placekickers face widespread derision as alien to football, partly because they can resemble librarians and avoid physical contact. Kickers provide crucial scoreboard variations that enable end-of-game chaos and supply a distinct bemusement that mass plays cannot replace. The 'tush push' should be countered through innovation and coaching, not by rulemaking, because strategic fixes and defensive adaptations can render it ineffective. A recent game showcased extensive kicking, as the Eagles scored 26 unanswered points, including two late touchdowns sparked by a blocked field goal and sealed by another kick.
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