re: Harrison Hit

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His foot is also literally on the ground at the hit

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You keep talking about his foot being on the ground. This is literally what the rule book says about that.

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A crouch followed by an upward and forward thrust to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area, even though one or both feet are still on the ground

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This thread has become about whether people like the targeting rule, not whether this actually was targeting as the rule is spelled out.

This is a bad rule, one that can take a player out of a game, based on a judgement call. I have seen MANY less violent, less obvious hits that did not knock the opposing player unconscious, or out of the game for a single play, called targeting and confirmed.

My final thoughts on this are that he knocked the guy unconscious on the hit. If getting knocked unconscious isn’t “forcible contact to the head and neck” I don’t know what is. Maybe beheading them with a sword? Harrison was limp as he hit the ground, so the whole “the ground caused it” are false. This is exactly the type of hit this rule was supposed to prevent. But it didn’t. And while it was initially enforced on the field, the powers that be reversed the call without clearcut evidence.