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Originally Posted by Rain Man
There's precedent for holding teams to their decisions. Read this interesting article about the 1932 NFL Championship Game, which the two teams decided to play indoors on a modified hockey rink.
https://ninetynineyards.com/2020/04/...e-games-1930s/
Seriously, read the article because it's great. The teams modified a bunch of rules to account for a small field, and when it was over the losing team (Portsmouth Spartans) was unhappy with the outcome. Here was the response.
NFL president Joe Carr was having none of it. He was quoted as saying, “You fellows decided to play for the championship in the Stadium. You knew in advance the field was small. You should have known that the smallness of the so-called Stadium gridiron would preclude real football and prevent both sides from executing many of the plays at your command. But since you announced that the championship would hinge on the indoor game, the Bears must be declared champions of our league… You made your bed and now you must lie in it, so there can be no more games between the Bears and Spartans this year which will count in the league standing.”
Roger Goodell needs to take a play from the Joe Carr playbook. The Bills pulled their team off the field. They made their bed and now they must lie in it. |
Agreed, but Joe Carr didn’t have to deal with the Twitter mob. Goodell does and will probably cave.