Concussion has been a hot topic in football for a few years, and in 2018 the NFL introduced a new rule to encourage players to tackle differently. Players would be penalized for tackling by lowering their helmets, and some people dispute the success of that new rule. With one year under their belt, NFL officials are looking to make this the year that the helmet rule starts working its magic.

Difficulty In Implementing

There was always going to be teething problems when the helmet rule was first introduced to the NFL in 2018. Players and officials had never really worried about it before, but now it’s something they have to be vigilant about.

Players lowering their head to initiate contact is thought to be a significant contributor to concussions. When they are young, football players are encouraged to tackle with their heads up, but there was never a punishment if they didn’t. Now there is.

A Violent Game

Football has always been a contact sport, and officials aren’t exactly trying to change that, but players must be protected as much as possible. Officials have been told to pay special attention to the helmet rule once again for the upcoming 2019 football season.

Competition committee chairman Rich McKay said there had to be an adjustment period for the rule. Many felt as though the officials missed several instances of players breaking the helmet rule during the 2018 season, but McKay believes things will be better in future games.

McKay feels as though the officials will get better the more they look for it, but the players will also stop doing it so much. Officials have been studying on the best approach to combating the helmet rule and the 2019 season is going to be make or break for the rule.

Ordinary people aren’t “gifted” with extraordinary supernatural powers, which makes it difficult to believe that some can be born with “psychic abilities.” Finding a genuine fortune teller is a rare occasion. Many times people would pass the test by making an accurate hunch. However, you can never rule out the possibility that even the most unexpected mediums can contribute to your life.

The concept of “rebound relationships” has been a subject of much debate through the years. Some think it can help the heartbroken cope with the sudden loss, others call it a step in the wrong direction.

Whatever it might be, you can still meet a great person at any time. For instance, a Redditor met their boyfriend after a breakup. A Celtic Cross spread gave them the Lovers card as an outcome, and they knew they were meant to be. It’s been eight years since they first got together.

Would you do a tarot reading on your birthday? Before you answer, consider the implications. You could get a super positive reading that puts you in a great mood. Or, the reading could be so depressing that it ends up ruining your birthday.

Either way, it’s a gutsy decision. Pulling death and the eight of wands on their birthday, this Redditor realized that change was coming their way. A few days later, the OP received news that their younger sister was going to be deployed.

A day before a pregnancy kit proved positive, this OP predicted that her friend was with child. The tarot card spread laid out her entire infertility journey before showing the Page of Cups and the Page of Wands to follow.

When the Emperor popped up, the tarot reader friend was sure that the fertility problems were from the husband’s side. The spread’s base card was the Empress. Thankfully, things worked out well for the couple and their family is now complete.

There are predictions that someone naturally feels could come true, and then there are these. One particular day, a Redditor’s great aunt did a reading for her mother — the Redditor’s grandmother. At that time, the mother had four children and was determined on keeping the number at that.

When her daughter predicted that she would have another child, the mother brushed it off. A few months later in January, she gave birth to her son, the Redditor’s youngest uncle.

In many cases, regular people take tarot cards to figure out about their own lives. Seldom do these fortune-tellers read for others. Many claim it helps them foretell things in the near future so they can prepare them for what’s to come.

People have also reported that tarot cards can’t really predict too far into the future. In a happy incident, a man did a read for his sister with a handful of fertility signs and — you guessed it — she’s now with child.

A couple went to visit a fortune teller when they were living in Greece. The readings they received were certainly not what they had in mind. According to the fortune teller, the wife would pass away at some point.

She laughed it off, thinking that it was just a silly “premonition.” Sadly, though, she lost her life in Canada six years later — leaving the husband a widower.

During her time in the army, a soldier got her tarot reading done by a friend. According to the cards he pulled, the girl would be marrying her then-boyfriend (she did), they wouldn’t be together for long though (they weren’t), but they would have a daughter together before splitting (they did).

All this seemed like a coincidence till the fourth reading. He had foretold that she would meet a very emotional woman within a week. Three weeks later, she joined a company where one woman could constantly cry about everything.

You know when you visit a psychic for the fun of it and they end up predicting something about your life or give you a detailed description of your past so what started off as a joke gets scarily accurate? Yes, this is what happened to this Redditor’s mother.

She told a psychic her children’s birthdays and that was enough for the woman to prescribe a handful of medication for the Redditor’s throat problems — and what do you know! The Redditor did have throat problems that the mother hadn’t even shared with the teller.

A mother and child duo have been pretty good with mind reading over the years. As opposed to what quack psychics would tell you, fortune-telling isn’t set in stone, which means that the prediction might not be 100% accurate.

In fact, it might not come true at all. Some claim that the cards are never wrong — it’s only people who read them the wrong way. Regardless, the mother-child pair deserve applause for their combined skills.

Whether we want to admit it or not, most of us wanted to be a witch when Charmed was popular. An eighth-grader picked up oracle cards to see what the fuss was about. When their friend asked them to do a reading for her and her crush, she obliged.

However, the OP’s friend was told that despite wanting to ask her out, her crush would back out. She then found out through another close friend that this did actually happen — the crush was interested but didn’t end up asking her out.

Famed clairvoyant Susan Saxman has a bunch of interesting fortune-telling stories for those who are willing to listen. Once, a boy came to her for a reading when she was in Florida. Seeing darkness in his future, she warned him against taking the steering wheel.

She even told him never to get a driver’s license. A month later, his mother rang Susan up to tell her about how her son had passed away in a car accident — but his friend was driving.

Susan Saxman is also convinced that spirits wander about in this world long after the bodies have decomposed. A father named Howard kept disrupting a woman’s session when she unexpectedly showed up at Susan’s office for a reading. She didn’t have a scheduled appointment but only wanted one question answered.

Susan kept getting distracted by a man, who was standing right next to the woman — but she didn’t even know a Howard. The next woman, however, said that Howard was the name of her father. He obviously wasn’t very pleased with someone taking his daughter’s spot at the teller’s shop.

Sometimes, even the most skeptical souls are forced to believe in fortune-telling and tarot cards. A Redditor went to a fortune-teller, who told them that they had been cursed while they were inside their mother’s womb.

According to the curse, they would never find true love. This sounds like some extreme Maleficent channeling. The fortune-teller offered to break the curse for $600. Annoyed, the Redditor left. They are yet to find true love, which begs the question — was the psychic right?!

Tarot cards can fill your mind with happy and peaceful energy — or they can make you dread what’s about to come. A novice at reading, this Redditor was doing a reading on friendship. They were thrown off by all the bad cards they were pulling.

As they had a stable friendship with the person in question, they couldn’t truly come to terms with it. They chose to be confident in their friendship. Sadly, yet not so surprisingly, the friend left the ditched the Redditor about a month later, and cut off all ties.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could figure out everything that’s going to happen in your life? That’s one of the main reasons people pick up tarot cards — they want to know what their future holds.

One Redditor was trying to figure out when her son would be born and the cards kept hinting at the number eight. She knew that this meant he would be born after his due date but the amazing thing is, he was born exactly eight days after the set date.

You can enjoy something that you don’t necessarily have faith in. This can be some form of a self-confirmation bias in which you’re manifesting your own future. Card readings are a valid example. We would like to have a friend like this Redditor, who affirmed their friend’s relationship and let her know that she would be moving.

Another reading of a different friend revealed his anger issues. Although the man denied having any at first, he later came clean and also admitted that the reading helped him keep his cool during stressful encounters.

Going to a psychic only for them to reveal the deepest, darkest secrets of your life that you would never share with anyone — quite the creepy scenario, isn’t it? If something like this would happen to even the most skeptical of humans, they would have to believe a little in the mysterious power.

Once, this Redditor went to a psychic who seemed to know a lot of information about him. The lady told him that his friends were toxic and so, he ended up cutting ties with them.

Readings that protect you from danger are greatly valuable. Not only can you shield yourself from the impending danger, but you can also better prepare yourself against it in the future. It was hard for a Redditor to figure out who at work was targeting them after a reading described a situation like that.

It ended up being their manager, who despised a few of her subordinates as they wouldn’t mindlessly follow her instructions. Soon after, the manager was fired and the Redditor was given a sane boss — plus a promotion!

Relationships aren’t always a bed of roses. There will be ups and downs along the way and only the toughest bonds survive. For those who believe in the concept of true love and soulmates, detaching from the one person who was made to be yours can be a painful event.

Dejected about their relationship, a Redditor turned to tarot cards to find out the final destination of their romance. The cards told them it was far from over. Fortunately enough, the reading was right. The boyfriend is now buying the OP a ring. Congratulations!

As much as we hate seeing lovers part ways, not all romances were made to stand the test of time. Occasionally, you will meet the right person at the wrong time, making it that much worse. A skeptic asked his date to predict what their time together would be like.

After pulling the five of pentacles, four of wands, and the page of wands, the tarot card reader announced that it would be a nice reunion, yet not fully satisfactory. The reading also claimed that they would rally again, which came true too.

Appreciate the small things in life because those are what you will remember forever. Developing a crush on someone can be a challenging time. You get butterflies every time you see them but you cannot physically be in their presence because it makes you too nervous.

Safe to say, most of us have been there. A tarot reader told a Redditor that the guy they liked kept hearing/seeing their name. Sure enough, the guy professed to liking the Redditor’s name a day after the reading.

The fun in tarot card readings probably lies in the excitement of it all. Are you going to hear good things that you’ve always wanted? For one mother, tarot card readings only guaranteed her twice as much happiness — once when she got the results of the reading, and the other time when it came true.

At the beginning of the year, her child told her she would get a raise at work. We’re assuming she was over the moon after hearing that. A few months later, that reading came to fruition.

Just because someone is reading tarot cards, doesn’t mean they’re waiting for some form of an answer. Sometimes, people do it for the fun of it. That’s what those cards are for. An important reading told a tarot reader that they would meet a young blonde woman.

Although they had already met the woman, she was yet to become important in their life — which was also predicted by the cards. Fast forward a year later, they were engaged. As of today, they have been a couple for more than 15 years!

Elections are easier to predict once you understand who people like more. However, history bears proof that nothing is finalized till the very last moment. The results could change in a split second for a handful of voters. Even so, this Redditor successfully predicted the last two elections.

In 2016, they were watching the polls and HRC was in the lead. Their friend left them a text saying it was done. Knowing what was about to come, they told their friend to hold onto their thoughts. We all know what followed.

This Redditor must have been born with natural powers considering that most of their readings come true despite them being a total novice. Their predictions for the first three months of 2021 were rather accurate. In a more recent event, they had been wanting to move houses.

A worrying amount of obstacles kept popping up along the road, giving them bad vibes. Even the paperwork was ready — all they had to do was a sign. It was later revealed that the landowner was facing some issues regarding tax work.

With 15 years of experience under their belt, this Redditor has seen their fair share of predictions come true. They mention how they don’t believe that the future is set in stone, but tapping into energies definitely gives answers.

They were able to see when their friend’s relationship would end, who would become President, the capital riot, and much more. Many non-believers question their skills but that doesn’t affect their belief. They’ve gotten so many crazy reads that their intuition has become their driving source now.

The Real Housewives television franchise has earned quite the reputation for being dramatic, loud, and oftentimes, frustrating. It still has a cult following, though. In one particular episode of season four of Real Housewives of New York, a psychic tells one of the housewives, Ramona, that her husband is having an extramarital affair.

She refused to believe it at first, heart full of hope that Mario would never betray her. Unfortunately, we later find out that Mario actually had a mistress.

Another case of a crazy accurate reading in the Real Housewives franchise would have to be from the 2018 season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Psychic Mbele was going to read all the housewives and Kandi Burruss had some really amazing news coming her way.

Back then, they were touring Africa. The psychic predicted that Kandi’s future husband would be there with her. Sure enough, her future husband Todd was working for production on the trip.

Losing a friend is never not a painful experience — unless they were toxic and rude. One Redditor had a really bad fallout with one of their dearest friends. He was being rather cruel and insulting towards the OP.

When they couldn’t take it anymore, the Redditor ended their friendship of 10 years. That’s when they decided to try out their deck of cards. The cards told them that someone would be returning. Seven months later, the friend texted, apologizing for his behavior. They mended their friendship shortly after.

In her very first attempt, a Redditor predicted the betrayal of her sister’s friend’s boyfriend. About 13 or 14 years old at that time, they don’t exactly remember what the spread was. However, the interpretation was easy — the friend was about to experience some sort of betrayal.

As you can imagine, the girl was a bit shaken up. A few days later, the tarot reading teen learned that the friend had called it quits with her boyfriend after realizing he had been cheating on her with a married woman.

This particular Redditor did a spread on his roommate’s new relationship. They didn’t let their roommate know a thing but predicted certain outcomes.

The reading came true faster than the OP could even digest. The newly heartbroken roomie let the OP know that they broke up with their partner. Naturally, the OP was quick to assure him that they’d be back together in no time. As the cards had predicted, the couple made up later.

A friend to a tarot reader, this Redditor shares one of the many stories they’ve heard from their buddy over the years. The tarot reader once conducted an online reading for a client. She let the client know the cards suggested that she had separated from her husband.

As she was still married, the client was obviously mad and asked for a refund. However, the tarot reader received an email a few days later informing how the husband was up to no good so the couple split up.

You may or may not believe in the afterlife but instances like these are too wholesome to be tainted by skeptics. After her husband passed away, one Redditor’s mother was extremely depressed.

In need of closure, she approached a fortune teller who told her that her husband was watching over them in the form of a black and white butterfly. Over the years, the Redditor and his mother would see a butterfly of the exact same shades fluttering across their garden, inside their house, and in their lives.

Being in a relationship is hard enough but add distance to it, and it’s whole a different struggle. It can drive you mad when you can’t contact your significant other. This OP was in a long-distance relationship with a person who suddenly disappeared.

Naturally, they were scared that they would never hear from them again. A satisfying yet worrying tarot reading told them that their significant other was only staying apart to cope with crippling depression. Sure enough, it was true.

On a much sadder note, this is the story of a loving father who had to bid his children goodbye. Although he was separated from his wife, she knew he would never move far from his kids. So when a tarot reader asked her if her ex-husband had any plans of moving out of the country, she denied it.

That’s when the lady said something heart-wrenching — the kids would have more of a mental connection with their father. Two weeks later, he lost his life during an armed robbery.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In an era of dating apps and social media romance, people wouldn’t exactly consider consulting a fortune teller if they don’t find love. A woman asked a tarot reader if she would ever find love.

The reader described an incident in which a handsome man would enter her life, but he may not be a total stranger. The girl reached out to the tarot reader a few days later to give them the good news that the prediction had come true.

After multiple failed attempts at getting pregnant, a woman approached a fortune teller. Fortunately for her, she found out that she would conceive during the time of Sagittarius. Not so surprisingly, she learned that she conceived on November 24th — the first day of Sagittarius.

She contacted the fortune teller once again when her baby was overdue. The woman was set to deliver the baby on the Cancer/Leo cusp. Thanks to the fortune teller, she found out the baby would be a Cancer, and that’s exactly what happened.

There are many different ways to conduct tarot card readings. When a Redditor did a Celtic Cross spread for their friend, they found that the significator card was the Empress.

Although they don’t remember the entire spread, the reading gave off a “family” tone. Less than a month later, she found out that she was pregnant. Even better, she was expecting when her friend conducted the reading. No wonder the Empress was so strong.

2020 and 2021 have been two of the most unstable years in economic history. With many companies shutting down and others laying off employees to make up for the losses, people have been losing jobs left and right.

A person decided to do a reading on their job. The cards indicated that their company would shut down and they would lose their job permanently. The very next day, a mass email from the company was sent out, letting all the employees know that they were relieved of duty as the company was shutting down.

Tarot cards are dynamic, which basically means that they’re not necessarily always predictive. On New Year, a person offered to pull a card for their husband for the first time. The man viewed it as taboo himself so he was super nervous.

Long story short, the cards were indicative of troubles. He got laid off work six days later, watched the capitol get stormed, and much more. According to his spouse, all of it can be referenced to The Tower card they pulled.

Women who want children but suffer from fertility issues face a whole different struggle that not everyone can understand. A woman approached a fortune teller that told her she would bear lots of children. At that point, the woman was just not having it.

Because she was struggling with fertility problems, this was a sensitive topic of conversation and so, she cussed out the reader and walked out. A year later, she tried IVF and was ultimately blessed with triplets!

It’s funny (sometimes flattering) if a psychic predicts something special about you. It gets weird and scary when multiple foresee the same thing. For one Redditor, things got rather confusing after a psychic confronted them about the “strong energy” they gave off.

They casually brushed it off. Another day, they were randomly approached by a woman who questioned how they handle the cluster of energy around them. A girl who had completed an internship at a psychic studio also approached them with similar questions.

There are four different “kingdoms” in tarot. The king and queen are used to describe individual personalities. After picking up a bit of the art from her mother, a Redditor channeled her inner fortune teller to find out whether or not she was pregnant.

As she was shuffling through the cards, one slipped out of her hand and landed face-up on the table. It was the page of pentacles — a card that represents children. After another good shuffle, she flipped over the same card again…

A skeptic by nature, a man visited a fortune teller on his visit to China. He was asked to provide his birth date before the psychic proceeded to browse through numerous lines and columns of a book.

After 15 minutes, the wise old man told him some things about his life that turned out to be true. As the Chinese girl translated it for him, he sat there in awe. According to the soothsayer, the Redditor will live until he’s in his 80s and he will have children — neither of which he wants.

Not all clairvoyants are going to be patient with a client. Needless to say, many of them are there to scam you. Finding an honest psychic is a rare instance. An anonymous Redditor shared the story of such a woman who predicted multiple life events and even provided good life advice.

In one of her visions, she saw a car. She then told the Redditor to stay awake, not sleep. The reading almost came true when the Redditor survived what could have been a horrible — and even fatal — car accident.