In 2013, Washington safety Brandon Meriweather delivered what many called frontier justice, concussing Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy with a helmet-to-helmet hit. Moments later, he suffered a concussion himself while attempting a similar punishment on another Packers player. As ugly as it was, this kind of frontier justice wasn’t new. It had been around for decades, and even former NFL player Mark Schlereth has taken his share of it.

“I can remember more than a couple of times where we threw an interception in a game, and that was always frightening because I’m holding somebody on every play,” he confessed on The Rich Eisen Show . “So, every single play, somebody is pissed at me.

“I once had two guys that knocked my a– over. Bruce Smith hit me on an interception so hard in

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