Tush Push vote happening today — here’s our final take

NFL owners are going to vote on the Tush Push ban today. 24 votes are required to officially outlaw the play.

The revised rule proposal is straightforward: Green Bay wants to ban any pushing or pulling of ball carriers by offensive teammates. In other words, they want to take things back to pre-2005, when this type of play was illegal.

We’ve already shredded every argument for banning the Tush Push, mainly because there isn’t a valid one. Most critics just don’t like it — it really is that simple. They hide behind clichés like, “It’s bad for player safety,” or “It’s not a football play, it’s not aesthetically pleasing,” and so on.

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Those are all subjective takes with zero substance. NFL data shows no injuries have occurred because of the Tush Push. It’s also not a rugby play — don’t take our word for it, take Jordan Mailata’s, and several other actual rugby players who’ve said the same. If the Tush Push doesn’t qualify as a “football play,” then neither does spiking the ball or kneeling to run out the clock.

If you’re for banning the Tush Push, you don’t like competitive sports.

One of the dumber arguments making the rounds is this: “The NFL is an entertainment product, so they should ban things that aren’t entertaining, even if it compromises competition.”

That one genuinely makes me sick. Football is a sport first. Its entertainment value comes from the competition — the physicality, the unpredictability, the storylines, the rivalries. Rule changes rarely make the product more entertaining. Outlawing blindside hits didn’t improve the game — it made it safer. There’s a difference. And that should be the only reason you change rules: player safety.

But if safety is the concern, how is the league also trying to add an 18th game to the regular season? According to the NFL, an extra 60 minutes of full-speed football is safer than the Tush Push — a play that accounted for just 0.28% of all plays last season. The Eagles ran it, on average, twice per game in 2024.

This isn’t about player safety. It’s not about the “spirit of the game.” It’s about one thing: targeting the Super Bowl champions for mastering a strategy no one else could execute. Something they practiced, perfected, and built into their identity.

It’s not just unfair — it’s pathetic. And honestly, it’s unethical. The NFL is bending over backward to cater to the frustrations of a handful of billionaire owners whose teams couldn’t crack the code. That’s not protecting the game. That’s sabotaging it.

If the Tush Push gets banned, it’ll go down as one of the weakest rule changes in league history — a move made not out of concern for safety or integrity, but out of pure envy.