If you could change one thing in any given sport what would it be?
 

Other than officiating which we all could go off about. This should be a good start:

NFL – I would limit the amount of teams there can be in the NFL to what there is now. The quality of this sport more than any other will really begin to decline due to the dilution of talent IMO. That being said I wouldn’t mind seeing both O’s in the game touch the ball in OT as well.

College Football – One word, Playoffs.

MLB – Hard Salary Cap.

College Baseball – No Aluminum bats. Have the same standard as MLB.

NBA – I would go to a hard cap as well here even though it isn’t as big of a problem in this game.

NHL- No more shootouts.

MMA –
UFC – Have the same rules as Pride
Pride – Have a cage similar to the UFC. The ropes are just ridiculous.

Motocross/Supercross – Have an open class.

When I saw the title, my reponse was going to be NFL overtime rules.

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I think curling should be done naked.

For soccer fans.....

I would get rid of the "injury time" at the end of matches....it's ridiculous that the only person in the stadium that knows the real end time is the referee....way too much power.

Any time there's an injury stoppage...clock stops.
Any time ball goes out of bounds...clock stops.

Simple as that....when the clock reaches the 90th minute....end of game.

I hate to waste my football vote on something obvious, but I would reverse the stupid rules now that hamstring defensive backs. The league has shifted way too far in favor of offenses.

I'd make the NBA exciting....... somehow......

I don't know like have a nude midget rollerderby deathmatch in an electrified barbwire enclosure circling the court at all times..... maybe with farm animals and cotton candy? Ohh and grenades?

Maybe that would make the NBA watchable?? Maybe?

Intentional grounding would be intentional grounding, no matter where on the field it was.

I like the Soccer clock idea.

Salary Caps in ALL sports, although I don't hate the soft salary cap idea in the NBA if it helps teams keep their own players.

I'm not really a soccer fan, but I agree that rule is absurd.

Get rid of goalies in soccer and hockey.

NFL - rookie salary slotting
CFB - playoffs!!
MLB - salary cap
NBA - lock out, permanently :)
NHL - :shrug:
FIFA - totally agree on the injury time, it's a disgrace!
College Basketball - move back the 3-pt line
College Baseball - lay the wood baby! Definitely agree!

women's gymnastics - nude.

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That's what I forgot, no more shootouts. Play till someone wins and eventually go to a tie if nobody scores. I have to add that to my list.

NICE!!!

The NBA is watchable, you must not watch it enough.
The sport that isn't watchable is frickin Baseball.

MLB - Change some damn rules and evolve like the other sports out there. Such as allow any bat, any ball, put the players in small shoulder pads and add tackling before the runner gets to the base, put a cage around the runners head so that the guy in the field can throw the ball at your ass to get you out.
Something!!
It's as boring as womens golf or gardening shows on PBS!
Plus it takes up all the time of the ESPN sports ticker!

MLB - strike zone consistency...I know this is subjective to the umps idea of the zone, but come up with a legitimate zone that ALL umpires have to abide by. grade their calls based on this zone and fire the ones that believe they are above the game. too many pitchers and batters get hosed on calls because the ump wants a hand in the outcome of the game.

NBA - this game cannot be made better. When Jordan left the Bulls it went down hill quickly. It's all one on one. Unless a rule could be made to enforce team play, then it will always be second to college bball.

NHL - the offsides rule is BS. get rid of it. if a player wants to take a change and try to cheat a bit on the offensive side, then let him. by getting ahead of the play, he is only hurting his team if there is a turnover.

NFL - not much to change. as mentioned above, overtime rules and defensive back rules should be changed.

NBA: zone defenses would be allowed [then maybe I wouldn't have to watch 6 guys stand on the far side of the court while 4 guys play the damn pick-n-roll crap]

NFL: no restrictions on the number of players on the LOS

MLB: salary cap + true revenue sharing

NHL: 4 on 4 with no goalies [maybe a smaller rink]

MLS: who cares

College Football: easy, playoff system [and the polls would not be released until after three full weeks into the season]

College Basketball: Dick Vitale would no longer be able to deliver Player of the Year awards just by running his mouth. [T.J. Ford? WTF]

Baseball - runners get to carry the bat with them and are free to knock the ball out of the fielder's gloves with it.

Basketball - the court would have boards around it like in the NHL.

NHL - Allow teams to go over the glass and engage fans who think they are tough by slapping and pounding the glass when players are against it.

NFL - If a QB passes the LOS he is treated like a HB.

Major League Soccer - Players can use their hands, and can pick up the ball and carry it. If another player pushes them down, then they have to get up and start over. If a team can't advance the ball a given distance in four tries, the other team gets the ball. Also, instead of a goal, just put a line on the ends of the field, and to score a player has to accompany the ball over the line. Oh, and no more kicking.

I'd introduce random midget versus dwarf fights at all of the above venues.

On the soccer issue I understand the injury stoppage, but on the outbounds I have to disagree, the game would go on for ever. It is already 45 minute halves and if you stop the clock everytime it goes over the touch line you are looking a long, long, long game.


Golf - Manditory golf ball specs for players. Quit meddling with the courses :cuss:. If you want to bring everyone to even playing field make everyone play the same ball specification.


Football - You can actually tackle a qb ( take off alot of the restrictions).


Baseball - Torn between a salary cap and spending minimum.


NCCAA Baseball - No alum bats.


NCCAA Basketball - 128 teams in the NCCAA tourney. It would only take an extra weekend and no more of this they got snubbed by the committee or what a joke that __________ got invited.


NCCAA Football - Playoff system for championship.

That's interesting. I haven't watched a single basketball game from start to finish this year. I've watched almost every inning of every Rangers game.

This country has ADD.

NBA- raise the rims to 12 feet. That way a game might actually break out during the nightly dunk fests.

And no forward passes.

Lets just steal soccer and make it how football used to be.

Good idea, Rainman.:thumb:

[QUOTE=ChiefsFanatic]NBA: zone defenses would be allowed [then maybe I wouldn't have to watch 6 guys stand on the far side of the court while 4 guys play the damn pick-n-roll crap]

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I thought you could play a zone in the NBA now???

Yep. Great suggestion. And then a dunk would be way cool, too.

Curling shouldn't be done at all.

Plus oiled up.

Boxing- Go to an open scoring format like the Olympics. It's the only sport that the competitors don't know if they are winning or losing.

The flopping in Basketball; give the refs an opportunity to t-up a flopper for unsportsman like conduct. Basketball games should be decided by the best players, not the best actors.

Don't you know? Boxing is fixed.

It would certainly make the balance beam more entertaining.

[QUOTE=DubbleDownBKU]You can't play an all out zone, I just think they took the illegal defense technical away. Just imagine a match-up zone, then players would have to pass the ball around.

Boxing is slowly dying. MMA is the future and growing BIG TIME. This is a good thing.

Oh. Yeah. My change for boxing would be to make it a real sport again.

I'd have to go with NFL overtime rules - both teams should at least have a chance with the ball (I know...it's a common complaint, but a big one)

and I don't really have anything else about any other sport...besides make them more exciting...

but I think I could deal with the whole nude, oiled-up women's gymnastics thing :drool:

I would add an NCAA-type overtime to the NFL.

I hate flopping too. Nobody did it like Vladeflop.

Soccer - do away with it

Having both teams get a chance would be nice, but I would not put them on any yard line and only give them a set number of downs. I would let each team kick-off to the other, and then the teams would get at least one drive.

But after the first drive by each team, it would revert to sudden death.

I LIKE IT

:clap:

Perfect!!! :thumb:

for baseball, basketball and hockey...

the season is to damn long make games matter

NFL let the Defensive Backs play


nude oiled up gymnastics.... Nudie Bar

College FB - let the clock run after 1st downs; also restart the game clock after the player goes out of bounds. Let's get these College FB games (marathons) down under 4 hours.

I think it would be cool if field goals were worth different points depending on distance(kinda like in FF). Like 20 or less 2 pts, 21-40 3 pts and 41 and up 4 pts- something like that.

Exactly right. Soccer pisses me off just thinking about it.

NFL
Drastically reduce the salaries of players, especially draftees. Then, also reduce the PRICE OF TICKETS AND SUNDAY TICKET and everything else that we as fans have to pay for to finance the sport.

NCAA Basketball
Start calling TRAVELLING and DOUBLE DRIBBLES. The lack of calls is killing the game. It'll be the NBA soon.

NCAA Football
Restrict college teams to 10 regular season games, and 1 "pre-season" game. Institute a playoff system with the top 8 teams.

NBA
Just abolish it.

...and teams should get bonus points for their QB getting 300+yds passing...that would be cool!

College BB - That reeruned-ass possession arrow. Uh, Hello?! Jumpball?!
College FB - Playoffs! 2 feet in/down for a catch.
MLB - Yankees and White Sox dissolved.

Too bad Denver wouldn't see those points...
:)

Did you even read my suggestion? Soccer can easily be changed for the better.

Just make sure that you aren't on your period and duche first.

NFL - no sudden death OT. Play the quarter. at the end no score/same score- Tie. Stop worring about the next game starting on TV. They breakaway to other regional or National games now. DirectTV Sunday ticket, NFL network will keep the game on....

CB rules need to go back. QB across LOS. Tackle allowed.

Better use of technology for close plays. The Bailey fumble perfect example....of need.

NBA - raise the rim to 12 ft.
Or add another basket at 15 ft for 4pt or 6pt play(beyond arc).
This was an MTV rock / jocks game approach...


MLB - Salary cap,
Enforce a consistent strike zone. Use technology to frame the 3D strike zone on plate per batter. Use beep tone in a headset for strikes to ump.

Hockey - Fights get players ejected. Time to join the rest of the Professonal sports. or remain a 2nd tier sport.

Soccer - who cares, like watching paint dry.
Only hope make it more like Rugby.

Golf - [george carlin]Put courses in cemetaries for challenging play, conserve land...[/george carlin]

I liked George Carlin's idea for basketball, where a basket is worth ten points if you can ricochet it off an opponent's head.

I know I'll get killed for this....

I used to think the same way you do about soccer....I grew up with the big 3 (baseball, basketball, football)....but once I started playing soccer and watching it played on the highest level (National teams, premiere league), it's quite entertaining.......

If you've never been, I suggest going sometime...the level of athleticism of soccer players (not to mention conditioning) is incredible.

Now, yes...there are things I hate it about it...such as the clock issue...and there are flopping the likes that Vlade Divac would be jealous of....but the game is pretty exciting once you give it a chance.

On a separate note....one other thing that drives me crazy...

Get rid of the stupid rule in College Football that states you're down if you're knee touches the ground (even if you're not touched by a defensive player)....ridiculous

I'd rather do away with it and just create a whole new game from scratch.

WHAT? No way. We could use some more of those bench clearing brawls we used to see in football too. Chiefs/Raiders had some good ones. Good ol Otis Taylor.

Id unleash the D. put the tackles back on the line of scrimage,bring back the flinch and headslap, retract the 5 yard dback rule retract the oline can hold inside the LOS. get rid of fieldgoals and the kick afters.

You're dead to me. Now I know what the 'p' stands for in your name.

id also put a ixnay on new franchises in the NFL for the next 15-20 years.

Well said. It's always amusing when somebody likes a 1-0 MLB or NHL game that takes at least 3 hrs, and goes ballistic on 1-0 soccer games that take half as long. Also, the vast majority of those people have never even played soccer. It's always hard to appreciate a game you don't understand.

Having said that, I'd be all for increasing the goal size in soccer. Maybe 1 foot taller and 2 feet wider, or something like that. 4 goals per game average would be great, instead of 1.5 ish.

Nothing like a good fight between two teams that hate each other's guts to further cement a beautiful rivalry.

No, what they should do in the NBA, in order to keep it from being racist and incensitive, is institute an agressive affirmative action policy.

Just make a drop kick worth 6 points, same as a touchdown, just outlaw a placeholder and cream the shit if he tries to kick it.

Of course, if you recover it, it is your ball. So none of chicken coaches would ever dare that.

I am all for rollerball, no substitutions and no time limit.

:thailor: That's thwell.

After much consideration, I submit this concept for the game of professional football.

When and if the quarterback points across the line of scrimmage, moves after taking a static position at center or in the shotgun formation, waves his arms wildly, twists, whirls, bends, turns, spins, rotates, and/or shakes his body in an odd or strange way as interpreted by the referee, the opposing team’s captains have the option to take the player at the 50 yard line, remove the player's pants and spank his a$$ soundly for a period of ten minutes.

FAX

I'd prefer that they didn't remove his pants.

NFL:

Cameras positioned on BOTH sides of the goal line, amining DOWN the goal line (i.e. perfect goal line angle) to help reviews.

Cameras position in each pylon, wide angle, aimed up and towards the back of the end zone (perfect sideline in the goal zone angle).

Reverse recent rules interpretations re: defensive backs.

Other sports: WTF cares?

Yeah.

That part probably needs some work.

FAX

Id go for that and add equal cameras for everygame small market or large.
If theyre going to have replay it should be even for all teams involved.

yeahhhhhh nba is second to ncaa. I need some of what you are smoking.

Why go to all that trouble so that old men with failing vision go underneath a black robed booth to look at(probably nudy pics) the replay??

How bout an RFID tags in the football? When the football crosses the plane, the computer will know it.

Tie the logitech wireless whistle from the ref into the computer. If the whistle initiates before the tag breaks the plane, the ball is spotted and no score, simple as that.

I would prefer that they let the MLB go up to center and reach across the line and go throgh similar gyrations. i.e. bitch slap him in the head when he do that.

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MLB- Ban steroids except for anybody playing for the Royals.

Golf- Stop televising it except for the golf channel or PPV. Stop calling golfers athletes

Loss of your first round draft pick for violating the salary cap. The penalty assessed to the Donks for their two year violation was ridiculous...something like $100,000 for each year.

I guess I deserved that - it's what I get for defending soccer.


Soccer....you're on your own, pal.

One last rule change before I hop on a plane to come back to KC to visit for a few days (are the wizards in town??? -- JUST KIDDING!)

I hear the rules committee for NCAA basketball is considering eliminating the ability for players to call timeouts while in the air, out of bounds, etc....

I hope they do....that's idiotic....you should have possession....being in mid-air hovering out of bounds does not constitute possession.

Nfl 3 words end zone celebration keep them.
nba allow zone defense
hockey get rid of the offside
Collage Football playoffs
UFC diff. weight classes fight each other