No Ifs, Just Butts: NFL Keeps the Tush Push Alive

The tush push isn’t just legal—it’s legendary. Teams tried to bench the booty, but the league said nah. If you can’t stop it, squat up and deal with it.

In a league where quarterbacks get babied and celebrations get flagged, it’s refreshing to see the NFL hold firm on something gritty. The notorious “tush push” — aka rugby scrum, QB sneak 2.0, or as some defenders call it, “nightmare fuel” — survives another offseason.

The vote to ban the tush-push technique failed 22-10, falling two votes shy of the 24 needed to give it the boot. The Green Bay Packers led the charge to outlaw it, perhaps tired of watching Jalen Hurts squat his way through fourth-and-short like a forklift in cleats. But alas, the tush lives to push another season.

No significant injury data backed the ban, despite cries of chaos at the bottom of those piles. The league essentially said: if your defense can’t stop a human battering ram, hit the weight room.

So for now, offensive lines will keep moonlighting as bulldozers, and quarterbacks will keep getting a little cheeky help from their friends. It’s not pretty. It’s not traditional. But it’s football’s weirdest and most unstoppable play — and it’s staying.

Long live the tush push. The only play where momentum, muscles, and mild mayhem all meet at the line of scrimmage.