football cleans? Do you mean power cleans, where you catch the bar in no more than a quarter squat? If so, i do them that way. If you compete, you want more weight on the bar, so you have to learn how to get under it. I think people who use them for sports, throwers and such, use the power versiones most. Because they want to get more out of the pull, for them thats importaint, rather than diping under and squatting the weight up.