Diving in American Football

Diving has always been an issue in soccer. Players often dive to try and get free kicks, penalty kicks, and even to try and get the other players carded for... I'm sorry. We're apparently talking about American Football and not Association Football or Soccer.

In the Monday night game the other night, there seemed to be a case of Diving in the NFL. Deon Grant and Jacquin Williams of the Giants both went down to the ground as if to feign an injury but only Grant stayed down what with Williams seeing his player already doing so. The Rams were running a no huddle offense and were trying to exhaust the Giants. This dive seemed to be aimed at slowing the Rams offense down and getting the Giants defense a breather. The Rams filed a claim with the league saying the Giants feigned injuries to disrupt the Rams offensive tempo.

HA HA HA HA!!! THERE'S DIVING IN THE NFL. I guess there has always been diving in the NFL but that it wasn't covered that much. This, however, gets national attention and it happened to a New York team. I'm sorry, because of a New York team. How can the NFL address this in the future? Fines, penalties, loss of timeouts, take your pick. The problem is still identifying them. Diving is a little easier to spot in Soccer. The NFL can be a bit difficult what with all the brutal plays and the toll hits take a person's body.

This seems like a none issue because you never hear it that much but I never played football so specific things like this sort of go over my head.