According to TIME, Goodell recently discussed with Rick McKay, Falcons president and head of the NFL’s competition committee, a radical rule change proposed by Tampa Bay coach Greg Schiano. Instead of a kickoff, the team that scored would then take the ball on its own 30-yard line in, essentially, a 4th-and-15 situation. In other words, they could attempt to keep their offense on the field and try to pick up 15 yards, at the risk of turning the ball over on downs; or they could punt.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
It all started going downhill when they started wearing pink.
agreed
in keeping up with a gif theme
I'll see your James Franco, and raise you a David Tennant (swoon):
yeah well...
That one is hard to beat (see what I did there), but I will try:
Goodell made one mistake...
all of these^^^^ A split title for Intersteller web master champion of 12/6/12
theDuke
Uh okay.
I would like to introduce a dumb new rule too: Instead of actually kicking field goals, a player will throw the ball from his own end zone and chuck it as far as he can. The further the throw, the more points you receive. Radical.
that would give Jamarcus Russell a job again in the NFL!
Yes. The position would be "long ball thrower".
Form does not matter. Weight does not matter. Work ethic does not matter. It's all about tossing the ball as far as you can. Only dudes with cannons need apply.
George Blanda would have never retired!
That's right, cause age would also not matter.
In keeping with the FG theme, I would actually like to see a rule implemented where the number of points awarded for a field goal is directly related to how far away the field goal is kicked. This could work for college to.
Say for example 45yrd and in is worth 3pts, 45-50yrds is 4pts and 50+is 5pts, or some form thereof.
I think it would add quite a bit of strategy to the game. Do you go for a 5pt field goal down by four, do you try and get the first down to get a 4pointer, or do you try and go for the TD to win.
The more strategery the better in my opinion.
“The teams that don’t respect their coaches and don’t trust their coaches are the teams that go .500"
~Zach Boren
This aarogant idiot is ruining the league!
The NFL has already eliminated/ruined/killed the KICKOFF. It's ONLY a matter of time before they eliminate/do-away-with the play COMPLETELY.
I got a grand plan for Mr. Goodell. Let's outlaw tackling and replace defenders with cardboard caricatures. That way when a wide receiver accidentally brushes the piece of cardboard Goodell will only have to fine and suspend a piece of cardboard for excessive force. Sounds like something I wanna watch.
"Sherman ran an option play right through the south" - Greatest.Civil.War.Analogy.Ever
Money and safety are slowly destroying football.
or the illusion of safety
There it is. People are getting caught up in the NFL's effort to curb concussions but they are all ignoring the actual problem-football itself is a dangerous game. I've been clammoring about the words "Sub Concussive Hits" each time this comes up. Chris Henry is the poster boy for the dangers of football. Diagnosed with CTE yet never treated once for a concussion. The NFL is making a fake effort to say they want to protect the players, but they don't want to because truly protecting them changes the game drastically, and no one (owners, fans or the players themselves) really want that. Admit its dangerous, say there are risks-but that won't happen given the 2600 person class action suit the NFL is facing would be a total litigation nightmare.
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I'll tell you an easy way to reduce the violence, yet keep the game true to it's nature. Take the facemasks off.
Actually, get rid of hard shell helmets all together. Go back to leather or no helmets at all.
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Why not have the whole game be just like the NCAA football overtime rules? 60 minutes, always start at the 30-40 of the opponents field...
We could just the size of the field down in half making stadiums smaller and cheaper (maybe triple purpose NBA/NFL/NHL) raising owners profits, eliminate punts, field goal kickers become more important, and the final scores will look more like a basketball game than a defensive struggle...
Further, we can make it two hand touch to make it safer...
Then we can wrap the players in bubble wrap, covered by a layer of foam, covered by a hard plastic shell...
We could change all the colors to pastels and get extra points for how well the player dances after a score...
Extra points for ballerina moves and tumbling… form matters… so practice up…
20 years t hey'll be wearing flags on belts it's heading that way. No contact blocking.
I wonder how many people on here remember that you could take two steps after the QB threw the ball? And lead in with your helmet!
The Devin Hester rule needs more work?
If he claims this would be because of player safety, there is no bigger hypocrite in the history of the league. The NFL switched to a full 16 week slate of Thursday night football-that move alone tells me he gives two shits about player safety. Guys play on Sunday, even grizzled vets will tell you their bodies aren't right until the following Friday at best. Instead, they have to play another game 4 days later? But you care about safety? BULL. Anyone noticed how bad Thursday Night football has been? Guys are ill prepared and totally gassed coming off a Sunday tilt. ONLY play Thursdays if the teams are coming off of a bye-that's the only way to cure it.
Go back to fining guys for every little thing-like 10K to Jay Cutler for tossing a football at a guy after he pie faced him to the sideline-a play Cutty got 15 yards for....
Then go and say you aren't going to suspend Suh for the Schaub groin kick because you didn't think there was intent-but turn around and fine him anyway. Which is it Rog? Intent or no?
This guy is an idiot. A committee of owners needs to talk to this guy. He's making the NFL a world of money right now but is going to kill the league as a sports entertainment super power in the long run.
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This would be a very bad day for Josh Cribbs....Punt/Kick Return Extraordinaire.
"I'm One Bad Buckeye, and I approve this message."
Josh got paid and is getting older; he hasn't had a return-TD in a few years now. I do see your point though.
"Attack the Strong, Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead!"
-Former OSU S&C Coach Lichter
I know people often call fair catches on punt returns, but it seems to me that they are more dangerous since the gunners can fly down and destroy the returner as soon as he catches it with no chance at covering himself. At least with the kick return everyone can see everything coming (and there is still the opportunity for a touchback).
oh, geeze --- ok, Roger Goodell --- just get it over with and eliminate the entire sport as we know it. Time to dress the players up in pink skirts and put flags on their uniforms, while eliminating the tackle aspect of the game. This is such an ill-conceived move. It's aimed at the premise that all serious concussions and injuries are a result of the speed, force & velocity of the gunners coming down the field on a kickoff team. That premise is just not fact-based. Most concussion happen to occur in the play of field, on a 3rd & 10 or a 2nd & 6...just a regular down & distance. This is a turrrrrrrrible idea. Just turrible. This Goodell has waaaay too much power. The most exciting thing in football can many times be a punt or kickoff return. He is already helping to shatter the chance of more exciting returns, with the move from the 30 to the 35 yard line for kickoffs. Now, he's talking about getting rid of these altogether? Wow.
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
I almost posted this. That episode sums this up perfectly.
"Sherman ran an option play right through the south" - Greatest.Civil.War.Analogy.Ever
Beat me to it. Was looking for this all morning.
Nothing like dancing on the field in 02...
This is what I would propose if they absolutely had to change the rule.
Kick off of a tee from mid field. If it goes through the end zone the team takes it at the 20. If it goes through the uprights the team has to take the ball at the ten. Returns would take place as normal, but there would not be many. Onside kicks would still be allowed. This would at least make the kickoff slightly exciting while keeping it in the game and reducing injuries.
Once the kickoffs are eliminated, the punt returns will disappear, too. The ref will simply place the ball 35 or 40 yards upfield from the previous spot. Goody-two-shoes Goodell will see to that happening to prevent injuries and the excitement of a player running a punt for a touchdown. But ask Goodell about how PSLs rip off fans, and he'll tell you the NFL is all in favor of them.
Sandusky > Goodell
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Ya, not funny yet.
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I thought it was
hahaha
ya, I was just joking....but this is another step for the sissification of America
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Sissification of America huh? Well I guess I'm of the mindset that just because something is a joke doesn't mean it escapes criticism. Roger Godell didn't use his status and stature to prey on innocent, and impressionable children. Thinking your 'joke' was stupid doesn't make me a sissy, nor does it speak to any larger process you think is currently occurring. Your 'joke' was stupid, off base, not funny, and ignorant.
While I'm at it, saying something idiotic isn't protected from heat. My offense to your joke doesn't reflect anything other than my distaste for your bad humor. Make it a bigger issue all you want, I'm sure I could learn a lot from someone who compares Roger to Sandusky-but the fact is you made yourself to look the part of a jackass and got called out for it.
But I'm the sissy-not the guy who has the stones to make a joke like that but doesn't like when someone is critical of it. Bush league.
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hey Brewster ---- don't get your pink panties in a bunch.
Wow, you take yourself waaaay to seriously. Do you think I was literally comparing Goodell to Sandusky? Really? Do you think everything everybody writes on here 100% of the time is meant to be serious, and there is no sarcasm? Wow.
"...made yourself to look the part of a jackass and got called out for it..." ? well, that's just your opinion.
You're over-sensitive, man. And, yes, this indeed IS the sissification of American, the pussification. I don't care what you call it, but it's true. Get over yourself.
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
basically you might wanna lay off the Sandusky stuff for a while...say forever.
Tell me about it. I made a comment on the thread about changing the rules on kickoffs concerning the players wearing pink and wasn't very popular. I'm all for awareness, but I don't like football players being forced to wear pink just because that is the PC thing to do.
Being PC has nothing to do with it. Somethings are beyond someone's childish need to make a joke out of anything to show how edgy they can be.
Forgive me for thinking that making a joke about what one of humanity's worst people did isn't funny.
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Okay, I can see how you might not like dudes wearing pink, but I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with being PC.
amen, Oyster!
the wearing of the pink being pushed down everbody's throat is overkill...it defeats he purpose
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
How does it defeat the purpose of promoting awareness of breast cancer?
look at all the butthurt from the politically correct...brewster & tennbuckeye
Being politically correct has nothing to do with it.
I guess I just expect more out of people when they use the word "Funny". Comparing someone to an obviously terrible human being is the lowest form of comedy, sorry. But if that sort of thing tickles your fancy, maybe that says more about the whatever-ification of America than my offense to that ridiculous comparison does.
What do I know though?
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dude, you just come off as a little too "high & mighty" when you jump all over people for what was obviously a joke
need to step back for a minute & not be so judgemental, imho, which again, is just my opinion
That's exactly what I am being because I guess I have some crazy notion that nothing about child molestation is funny or worth joking about.
Shame on me.
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when people joke about Sandusky, I think the ire is meant more towards PSU & all of it's arrogance, and NOT child molestation. Come on, do you really think it's about child molestation. You sound like the PSU crazies, who slammed OSU during Tat-Gate, but when their school was embroiled in the worst scandal in the history of sports, (which people are going to make jokes regardless of, whether right or wrong), they criticized anybody making fun of Penn State as making fun of child molestation victims. When, clearly, the ire is towards Penn State, itself, and not the victims. That's just stupid to try to equate that...it's not a joke about child molestation. I don't think we should have to explain this, sheesh
Regardless of what was meant by it, it's a sensitive subject and people should tread lightly and/ or avoid it.
The arrogance of PSU is a separate matter from what Sandusky did.
The initial comment was Jerry Sandusky > Roger Goodell. I get what you are saying but what the initial comedic genius was doing was drawing on the awful nature of Jerry Sandusky and everything he stands for and comparing it to the short sighted, foolish mistakes the NFL commissioner is making. He's saying a child rapist is better than an NFL commish. If you missed the attempted humor on that one, then there's nothing I can say to clear it up. Of course, perhaps it illustrates my initial point that what was initially said wasn't that funny anyway....
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wow, man, take a little more interpretational freedom next time...I didn't know I was "...drawing on the awful nature of Jerry Sandusky and everything he stands for and comparing it to the short sighted, foolish mistakes the NFL commissioner is making. He's saying a child rapist is better than an NFL commish..." ... when I made a dumb little joke about Goodell. You shouldn't hash out some over-sensitive reply based on the false premise that I meant that literally.
talk about stretching it just a little. You're going off the deep end by overthinking. Really, all it was was a stupid little joke. Get over it, already.
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
exactly, Urban
and Brewster - don't put words in my
mouthfingers; I didn't type a joke about child molestation, it was more about my disdain for Goodell, by making a comparison to a unanimously unpopular public figure. Maybe it was in poor taste, and for that - I apologize if it offended you. But, again...it was just a joke. Same with the don't get your pink panties in a bunch, that was 80% joke haha"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Ok buddy. THATS what you were doing. You hate what Goodell is doing for the league so you compare him to someone who is hated. And what is he hated for? Raping children. So intended or not, the message was "The guy making rules in the NFL is worse than a guy who raped kids".
Messages and how they are received-now THAT is a problem.
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yes, on the "don't get your pink panties in a bunch" - that was mostly a joke, but partly serious. Because, look at you, you're having hissy fit over a joke.
The first line about Sandusky, was obviously a joke. If you don't get that - then you're not too smart or just need attention. This replying has really got off the beaten path.
bottom line: I am for keeping kickoffs in the NFL.
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
I'm aware it was joke. I don't think at any point I thought it wasn't....I'm saying (and initially said) it wasn't funny. I don't think you like Sandusky more than anyone or the other, I'm saying the idea of that being a joking matter isn't in my wheel house.
Friends?
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no, you're not --- you're going above & beyond and way out of your way to say you thought I meant it literally. I agree it wasn't the best joke, but in no way do I literally think Sandusky is > than Goodell or that Sandusky is > than practically anybody else on planet Earth. Just a little sarcastic joke. man alive
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
yes...friends indeed.
sorry for that bad joke
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Sorry for the knee jerk.
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hahaha bro-fist accomplished!
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
heck yeah! friends....Buckeyes brethren first! the world would be a pretty boring place if everyone agreed with everyone 100% of the time...it was much ado about nothing...no biggy
go Bucks!
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
"The NFL needs this rule like I need another cheeseburger."
- C. Weis
I dedicate this song to you, oh Lord Goodell, power-hungry megalomaniac that you are. "Roj" must have not gotten enough attention as a child, because he's trying to overcompensate by leaving his mark in this world. But, he's gone too far...
I will never watch the NFL again if they do that. No biggie. I love college football much more, and I love Ohio State much more than I could ever love the Bengals.
Class of 2010.
Do all the players get fresh tampons before each quarter too. WTF?
(Somewhere in Chicago, Jim Delaney is sitting in a darkened room rubbing his hands together and plotting.)
The shower at penn state>goodell. U mad bro? Lol
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.