Please Don't Get Your Head Chopped Off.
Like Jon Gruden evidently did
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Interesting choice of words by Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis this week while discussing his most recent attempt to resuscitate the moribund franchise. You don’t hear beheadings tossed around in football talk that often anymore.
You used to, though. Back when clotheslining was a thing that you could do while only getting penalized once in a while, announcers would occasionally reference a guy taking another guy’s head off.
On prison football teams, meanwhile, the explanation of what was happening on those kinds of plays occasionally got a little more specific (NSFW):