Inside Packers-Eagles battle over banning the tush push

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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Week 6 Thursday night game between the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants had not even reached halftime when Micah Parsons, watching on television, had seen enough of the tush push -- a play that was nearly banned during the offseason.

"This is not football!" the Packers' pass rusher wrote in a post on X after Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts scored a 1-yard touchdown on their fourth straight tush push attempt.

For good measure, he added two emojis of a person discarding something into a trash can.

A week later, Parsons had no interest in backing down.

"I hate that play," he said.

Even before saying that, however, he realized something.

"That might…