{"id":683638,"date":"2018-08-23T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=683638"},"modified":"2018-08-23T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:20:49","slug":"nfl-clarifies-portion-of-controversial-helmet-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=683638","title":{"rendered":"NFL clarifies portion of controversial helmet rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL clarified a portion of its controversial helmet rule Wednesday \u2014 potentially altering how the rule will be called in the future. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, NFL vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said, &#8220;I<span>nadvertent or incidental contact with the helmet and\/or facemask is not a foul.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As ProFootballTalk&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/aug\/23\/nfl-clarifies-portion-controversial-helmet-rule\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/aug\/23\/nfl-clarifies-portion-controversial-helmet-rule\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NFL clarifies portion of controversial helmet rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL clarified a portion of its controversial helmet rule Wednesday \u2014 potentially altering how the rule will be called in the future. In a statement,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}