The ban on offensive players from pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping or encircling a runner was reportedly supported by a 22-10 vote among team owners, two short of the three-quarters majority

Owner Jerry Jones found a way to keep his franchise, long nicknamed "America's team" in the spotlight this week -- despite the fact that it's the middle of football's offseason and the conference finals in both the NBA and NHL are underway.

In Minnesota, NFL owners voted on rule changes with multiple big-ticket items on the docket. The Super Bowl champions earned another win, and those who value divisional prominence should be satisfied by the final votes.

Sources: Tempers flare as Eagles defend tush push in heated debate - ESPN The voting finished just two votes short of the needed 75 percent, with a final vote of 22-10, and it's possible that Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie's hour-long speech pushed a couple of teams back into the "no" column on the vote.

The Browns were one of the 10 teams that voted against a proposal that would have outlawed push plays like the Philadelphia Eagles' "tush push."

Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys have had to watch the Philadelphia Eagles win multiple Super Bowls in recent years.

After months of debate and hours of discussion at the NFL's spring league meetings in Minnesota Wednesday, the fate of the "tush push" — the play the Philadelphia Eagles run more successfully than any other team — has been decided.

The survival of the tush push arrived as a surprise. And it didn't come without some last-minute and reportedly lurid wrangling from Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie at Wednesday's NFL owners meetings in Minneapolis.