I'm tired of them pussifying the game too. I say it's time to go the Rollerball route. Once us real fans get sick and tired of the flag football product, we could watch the RFL.

Made up of guys on death row come out and beat the crap out of each other. If the ref calls a flag, the fans vote whether to kick the refs ass....lol

Running man, hell yes.

Rule # 2, first learn rule #1.

They game is essentially neutered, watered down, and more often than not, not very exciting. It's become sort of a novelty to me. National games are the same group of teams nearly each week. There are the 'stars' that are endlessly pimped.

But I don't think these rules would improve a thing; probably make it worse.

ho li fook jwhit did a nice job with this -- fully onboard and think this will make the game more of what I like -- contact and without the bonecrushing, but still good contact :D

Good

Rule No. 2: Eight defenders must line up within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage.

Rule No. 3: Bump-and-run, physical pass coverage is allowed everywhere on the field until the ball is in the air.

Interesting

Rule No. 4: Quarterbacks are not allowed to run the ball past the line of scrimmage.

Either this or stop treating them like little girls.

Dumb

Rule No. 1: No defender can line up more than 8 yards from the line of scrimmage.

So much for the prevent D

Rule No. 5: The offense gets a 12th man -- a sixth blocker, a noneligible receiver.

Really dumb

I'd like to get rid of the running into the kicker penalty. Or it should be more aptly called I almost blocked the field goal but the poor little kicker landed on my head and fell down. He might have got hurt, poor kicker.

Rules schmules, no more rules and as a matter of fact, they need to start walking back some of the rules they've come up with the last three years.

Fans hate most of them as do the players, even the former jock talking heads who used to be offensive guys are saying the rules are too skewed towards offense and that its hurting the game.

:hmmm:

now the London move is starting to make sense....

I don't think these would fix anything.

There's a fallacy here, borne out of the play Whitlock saw and used as his example. The fallacy is that the player hitting the player who sustains a concussion needs time to gather up all the speed it takes to cause a concussion.

That's simply not true. People get concussions every day from the acceleration between their head and the floor when they fall down, and that's not usually even unbroken acceleration. There are a million tiny variables in how concussions occur and they are different in every collision. A defensive back and his shoulder can be only 5 yards away from a defenseless receiver and still lay a devastating hit, because of the opposing forces involved. And I'm also sure that lots of offensive linemen have concussions, and no one is generally running up and blasting them from 20 yards away.

I'm sure that what Whitlock would say is, "reducing the speed of colliding players will, in par, reduce concussions." That's certainly true. As the force with which your head impacts something increases, the probability of sustaining an injury approaches 1.

But isn't this the strategy the NFL is using that we are all complaining about? That if A would reduce concussions, then we can't do enough A?

Why don't we do things that keep the integrity of the game and still protect brains, like increase the thickness and material of helmet padding, or add padding to the exterior of the shoulderpads as well?

I think the play he chose was a bad example, because it was a ticky-tack helmet to helmet call, and in using it he reached a conclusion that's only somewhat true.

What we should really see is someone do a study where the look at every concussion or possible concussion and attempt to catalog what happens in each case where an injury results or doesn't.

I think that ham-fisted attempts to solve this problem have resulted in the flag-football NFL we have today, and another dart at the wall isn't going to help.

*sigh*

The NFL's target audience is not traditional football fans anymore, and it hasn't been for nearly a decade.

I loathe fantasy football. there's such a glaring difference between NCAA and NFL. Yeah, the talent is different obviously, but there isn't the non-stop hype for fantasy college football.

Seems to me it's targeted to fantasy dorks more than anything.

I just want the last five minutes of the game for teams not to be able to run the clock out. After a play the clock stops. No more milking the clock crap at the end of the game and wasting useless timeouts while the other team kneels on it.