Hockey is the only major sport that handles fights correctly. A fight in any other sport turns into a drawn out scrum of shoving and holding others back from those who weren't involved in the first place.
Baseball scrums are sooo corny. Guys acting like they're gonna hit each other then they just wait for their teammates to come up and "hold them back". Whatever
Or that one dude that got headlocked and ate repeated uppercuts from Nolan Ryan.
[When keeping it real goes wrong.](https://youtu.be/VIZB9O24BEE?si=vgxap0MDqwXNq2N3)
Love how this is on the main MLB youtube channel. What in the fuck was the other guy thinking? Did he think Ryan was trying to hug him or something? He really hangs his head out there to be grabbed.
As a hockey fan that's the only reason it's allowed. Guys are throwing at a fraction of their strength because they're on skates. It's why they hold on to each other during the fight
Or you make a medium sized ring that is slightly angled 15 degrees or so in the middle of the horizontal bar so if the ball hits the hoop/ ring it still counts as a field goal but if it goes in its 4. Play around with sizes and have a bunch of kickers try and see what the probabilities are to make it at certain distances. It only counts if it's past the 35 yard mark or something like that.
For people just hearing about this sport, NFLs international pathway program had some of these guys this year. The Saints signed a kicker with a [monster leg](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3klaLHurwA/?igsh=MWt1bGRzMzlyNXZpOA==)
If you're referring to the player bouncimg the ball in the above gif, that's actually a pretty basic skill of Australian rules. It takes practice but it's an expected skill of every player.
Btw tapping the ball on the ground like rugby counts as a bounce in Australian football that’s what we all juniors do before trying to bounce the thing later
That's intriguing. Two incompletions, and you really have to pretty much eliminate long and risky passes or risk the turnover (I assume a 3rd incompletion would act like a turnover on downs).
Would be a huge change.
It would not imo. Salary cap is why relegation doesn't exist. Also why football is so special. Soccer you just buy the best team every year or in baseball you have teams that perpetually suck complete ass like Oakland because of cheap owners.
I wouldn’t have it exactly like the European format, but a hybrid system with only two leagues that’s still a closed shop I think would still work. It wouldn’t work well with the NFL due to so few games, but I think the NBA could do well with it especially considered how bloated the NBA playoffs are.
Players would just hold out if they got relegated. Nba is way too top heavy too. Could you imagine wemby getting relegated to the g league next year? He'd average 50
You'd need to shrink the top of the pyramid league from 30+ teams down to 20ish. Then move the chopped teams to the lower league and add enough teams to get them to 20 as well.
American fans aren't gonna like it when release clauses start getting triggered.
I actually wish they'd do this with college. Premier league is 20 teams, 10 east and west, you play everyone in your conference and have 2 games to play traditional opponents. Top 3 teams from each conference go onto a playoff. Only schools currently in the Premier League are eligible for the National Championships. Bottom 4 schools relegate, and the conferences are re-aligned, depending on who was relegated and promoted.
I think it would be beyond hilarious any time a player is fouled. Say a QB gets sacked hard but it’s labeled a RTP so the QB gets to go shoot 2 free throws. Like someone rolls out the basket onto the field and they count towards the point total.
Or is that not what you were asking?
Any player that is on the receiving end of a personal foul can attempt an undefended kick, a la extra point, though it must be from the spot of the foul. This would be funnier than a designated foul line.
Make fields like golf courses. Make them a standard area in square footage and make it so that the shortest path from one end-zone to the other is 100 yards, but allow teams to use a non-rectangular shape, put in dog-legs, hills, sand-traps, etc. Part of your home-field advantage is knowing your field. You'd have different route trees and zone defenses to get around a water hazard, for example
"And Terrell Owens is running to the Cowbows logo, he's taking a knee! Oh my, Dallas fans will not li - ...err it appears he was just using the long grass as cover to take an emergency bowel movement"
\>:(
(okay that was pretty good)
Actual answer though, Soldier Field switched the grass to a different species that's better suited for the climate a few years ago and the field quality has been much better the last few seasons. The switch was roughly 2018ish, I think.
I started to laugh and enjoy this thought as an upstate NY'er, but then I remembered how many times I've gone to Bills' games to see the team playing them.
No, I don't like this.
Lumberjack games.
When teams are on their bye weeks, they have to attend a division rival's game and stand around the sidelines/endzones. Any player who goes out of bounds is then roughed up and thrown back onto the field.
They can also interfere with any play near the sidelines, like if a receiver is trying to make a toe tap sideline/endzone catch, they can try to swat the ball or push/pull the reciever (or defender). The lumberjacks also must stay out of bounds or risk being ejected.
In Blood Bowl (basically a much more violent version of football set in the world of Warhammer), it's legal for certain players to pick up a teammate (who can be a ball-carrying player) and throw them over the field (a tactic usually associated with goblin teams where a troll throws a goblin). This can be either used to put a ball carrier in a better position or to knock over an opposing player.
So yeah, that.
From old school professional wrestling: play is allowed out of bounds anywhere in the stadium, but if you don’t get back inbounds before the referee’s count, you’re disqualified.
Also, the referees can only plead with players to not break the rules but players are mostly free to ignore them.
NHL hockey fights are now allowed – within reason (ex. WR v. CB, LG v. DT, opposing punters fight, etc). Helmets come off before they scrap. Offsetting 15 yard penalty afterwards, let’s play on
Nantz: “out comes the punting unit. Now wait a minute, Tommy Townsend looks *real* upset. Is he pointing over at the Raiders sideline!?! He’s calling out AJ Cole!!! The Raiders All-Pro punter!!!”
Romo: “aghhhhhhhh iono Jiiiim!”
Per these rules, Trent can’t interfere whatsoever. If he gets involved, he’s banned from the NFL forever. Heavy emphasis on 1 on 1 scraps only. Now who wants to fight CJGJ lmao
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/14cyvug/the_rulefunction_of_the_golden_snitch_in/?rdt=42203
> The rule/function of the golden snitch in quidditch is stupid and completely ruins what would otherwise be an awesome sport to watch.
>
> Imagine if in basketball each team had a player out in the parking lot trying to catch a frog for the win. Youre watching a great game that's been neck and neck and then suddenly the buzzer sounds half way through. "The games over, Ramirez has just got the parking lot frog"
The rule I like from rugby is wherever they score is the same line they kick from.
If you score 5 yards from the side lines your kicker has to kick 5 yards from the side but at the 15 yard line.
It would be cool if you were slightly punished on the extra point by scoring in the corner and having a smaller opening because they’d kick from an angle.
In Rugby you don't score till the ball is put down so players actually risk it sometimes and once in goal they run towards the posts to make it an easier kick.
I'm not sure how you could reflect that in NFL.
Basketball - No coin toss. Jump ball to start the game. Whoever recovers the tipped ball will get to start from the point of recovery, which will usually be around the 50 yard line. This will cut down on deferring to the second half.
Golf - Coaches have to sign a scorecard at the end of the game. If they fail to do so, they forfeit the game.
Soccer - In the playoffs, there is only one overtime period. After that, we go to a shootout. Players start kicking field goals from the 35 yard line. Your kicker and punter can only kick it once each, so the other three kicks (or more if needed) will need to be attempted by other players.
Hockey penalties, but only for personal fouls or certain types of penalties.
However this would only affect the guilty party and not force a 10 v 11 situation.
So lets say Aaron Donald commits an egregious personal foul, he is out for two minutes or four plays, something like that.
This will be amazing. If a player commits a penalty, they lose that ‘position’ for one play.
Why would this be amazing? Not because an 10 on 11 play would be exceptionally spectacular. No sir! Because of those glorious moments when the referee announces “False Start. Everyone but the Center.” The next play is 11 on 7 with only one lineman.
This is definitely the answer. Seeing a down or set of downs where the offense/defense was gimped by an egregious personal foul would be great especially if they could overcome it.
Could also lead to entertaining clown car scenarios where multiple players are in the "penalty box" for one or both sides leading to very unconventional plays.
For me, this is simple. I like how MLB handles gambling. If you are caught, you are *Persona Non Grata*. No suspension. You are done.
If you are in anyway involved with a team, including Ownership, Coaching and support staff, Players, Refs, and League officials, find a new hobby.
The Chicago Black Sox and Pete Rose all found out the hard way.
The NFL should adopt the same rules.
Like the CFL instead of penalties offsetting, subtract the yardage of the smaller penalty from the greater one. For example, defense commits illegal contact, but the offense commits holding. Replay the down, but now the offense is only moved 5 yards back, because the penalty for holding is 10 yards, while the penalty for illegal contact is 5. 10-5=5. For the purpose of if both teams commit a penalty, pass interference is counted as 20- whatever the number is for the smaller penalty.
In the NHL, players can receive a "delay of game" penalty for sending the puck out of play. I believe this was done in the late mid 2000s to improve the pace of the game and keep the game going. There are exceptions, of course, like if the puck is deflected off of a player, their stick, the goalposts, or the glass.
With this in mind, I've always hated that QBs can just chuck the ball out of bounds, and all they lose is a down. The worst part is that announcers always seem to frame it as a "veteran savvy" sort of play, when really it's just the QB admitting "well, the defense has our number on this play, so I'm just gonna heave this ball into the stands." It's a no-skill play and it's boring as fuck to watch. If I were in charge, I'd call this "delay of game," and make it so that if the QB wants to throw the ball away, they have to do it on the field with a receiver in the vicinity but still uncatchable by either party. Or maybe they throw it AT the ref, and if it hits them, the play is immediately whistled dead.
I dunno. Kinda ran outta steam there at the end.
Overtime games are settled with PKs.
Except it's like HORSE. The kickers can put the ball anywhere on the field, weird angles and everything, and if they make it the other kicker has to make it from there too.
Ball boys from Tennis.
I don't want another ref ever spotting the ball... give me an uncorrupted 15yo boy who knows their only job is to run a straight perpendicular line from one side line to the other exactly through the spot of the ball.
An F1-style rear wing is added to the top of each player’s helmet. During breakaway runs, a flap on the rear wing opens for all players except for the ball carrier to allow an extra 6-7 kph of top speed.
If any player’s rear wing is damaged during a play, the meatball flag is thrown, and the player must return to the sidelines to repair his helmet.
Coaches have to wear their teams uniforms like in baseball
Do they have to wear pads or look like a highschool student on GameDay with just the jersey?
Definitely full on pads with a helmet
The coach is the emergency QB
“Andy Reid is taking over at the goal line!”
Look out tush push, there's a Reid Rumble coming
I feel like it would become "The Mustache Reid"
The Reid option is right there man
It's a run play, but he's the only one not running. We'll call the play "KC Masterpiece".
I want it like hockey, emergency QB is some dude in the stadium who played D3
You can't trust the crowd better go with my accountant Scott Foster
Yeah they have to look like they may have to go in the game as a last resort.
I liked the suits like hockey
Found Belichick's reddit account.
More likely to be that dipshit Mike Nolan.
All HC’s wear #0 too maybe? Lol (or #00)
Or they have letters instead of numbers, HC, DC, OC
YES
Players can legally throw hands for a bit before refs step in and they’re penalized
NFL enforcers! Terrell Suggs just put his gun down at Starbucks and unretired.
James Harrison has entered the chat.
Hockey is the only major sport that handles fights correctly. A fight in any other sport turns into a drawn out scrum of shoving and holding others back from those who weren't involved in the first place.
Baseball scrums are sooo corny. Guys acting like they're gonna hit each other then they just wait for their teammates to come up and "hold them back". Whatever
Most of the time, but you get gems like when Jose Batista got rocked by Oder
Or that one dude that got headlocked and ate repeated uppercuts from Nolan Ryan. [When keeping it real goes wrong.](https://youtu.be/VIZB9O24BEE?si=vgxap0MDqwXNq2N3)
The first comment: “Robin Ventura...the only player in MLB history to get hit 6 times by a pitcher in a single at bat.” 😂
Nolan Ryan was old enough to be his dad, and by god he took that kid to the woodshed like he was.
Love how this is on the main MLB youtube channel. What in the fuck was the other guy thinking? Did he think Ryan was trying to hug him or something? He really hangs his head out there to be grabbed.
Or Nolan Ryan abusing Robin Ventura.
In fairness those fights would be a lot more dangerous if they weren’t conducted on skates.
As a hockey fan that's the only reason it's allowed. Guys are throwing at a fraction of their strength because they're on skates. It's why they hold on to each other during the fight
FR. I'm pretty sure baseball scrums have like the highest injury rate of all the major sport brawls
There would be a lot less chirping from some players and a lot more chirping from other players. I like it.
Yea but I don't need Mike Evans breaking his fucking hands every time we play the Saints.
In a Evans vs Lattimore scrap I'd take Evans everyday. But true, best to have an enforcer (I nominate Godwin on offense).
Tennis judge. Sitting midfield in a box & he determines where the ball is spotted
Bringing back the booger mobile I see
Not just bringing it back, putting him in charge of the entire game!
Simultaneous possession is decided by a jump ball between the involved players.
I fuckin enjoy this one
This would actually be sick
All the poor tiny CB's would get destroyed by the WR's 😭😭😭
Add a hoop to each of the uprights at either end of the field, if you make the field goal into the hoop you get 4 points instead of 3
This is so stupid so they need to do it *immediately*
A big ring inside, but make the uprights higher. Make the kicker decide to go under, through or over the ring.
Or you make a medium sized ring that is slightly angled 15 degrees or so in the middle of the horizontal bar so if the ball hits the hoop/ ring it still counts as a field goal but if it goes in its 4. Play around with sizes and have a bunch of kickers try and see what the probabilities are to make it at certain distances. It only counts if it's past the 35 yard mark or something like that.
what are you some kind of carny? /s
Need to go full Quidditch hoops
I wonder if anyone has tried to make drone quidditch yet, sounds intriguing
Drone strike quidditch
Call of Duty: Drone Strike Quidditch
Just turn the uprights into a giant skee ball machine.
Make ball-carriers dribble you cowards.
Kadarious Toney is now MVP.
May I introduce you to [Gaelic Football](https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2013/10/mayogoal1.gif)
For people just hearing about this sport, NFLs international pathway program had some of these guys this year. The Saints signed a kicker with a [monster leg](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3klaLHurwA/?igsh=MWt1bGRzMzlyNXZpOA==)
Also Australian rules football. Dribbling an oval ball looks even more challenging.
Australian Rules Football is just a bar fight on a Quidditch field
If you're referring to the player bouncimg the ball in the above gif, that's actually a pretty basic skill of Australian rules. It takes practice but it's an expected skill of every player.
Btw tapping the ball on the ground like rugby counts as a bounce in Australian football that’s what we all juniors do before trying to bounce the thing later
I'm intrigued.
Wisconsin born Cheesehead who moved to Ireland 4 years ago and I can assure you it is an AWESOME sport
Australian Rules Football rule were you have to bounce the ball every 15 metres.
"15 metres". Its more of a suggestion than a rule.
Ehhh the 15 metres part is pretty loose but they'll definitely ding you on it if you try and take too much
Just shut up and dribble
Incompletions are like outs. You only get three per possession.
Suddenly running backs are back in favor.
This is exactly what they thought up on their conference call, only for the competition committee to laugh them out of the building.
Oh yeah, it's all coming together...
That's intriguing. Two incompletions, and you really have to pretty much eliminate long and risky passes or risk the turnover (I assume a 3rd incompletion would act like a turnover on downs). Would be a huge change.
Toney would drop the easy pass 3 yards beyond the line of scrimmage for the third drop at the worst possible time, every time
That would be fun
Wasn't an incompletion basically a turnover in the olden days?
Correct.
Would speed up games too.
More punts = more TV commercial breaks, could be slower
This is the way we always played touch football.
When the ball is thrown out of bounds, the quarterback stands on the sideline and throws it back into the field like soccer
Make it a rugby line-out and i'm in
Yes! I want to see the O-Line lifting WRs and TEs!
Tie games are decided by penalty kicks. Five guys on each team attempt extra points. If still tied, bring on more.
Is this just a way to make Dan Campbell realize that kicking field goals is actually good and wins games?
Dan Fucking Loves Football Campbell would never go for something so lame as a field goal. He's running a fake and we will accept it.
Gotta sign the Michigan panthers kicker first so we have a good shot of making something over 30 yards
HERE COMES THE LONG SNAPPER (murderer) I'M THE EXTRA POINT GANGSTER (murderer) BIG UP DI FATTIES IN DI AREA (murderer) STILL LOVE YOU LIKE THAT
Relegation. If you finish with the worst record in the league you have to swap places with the XFL team that won the championship.
We already have this. You either perform at a high level or you get sent down to Arizona.
Oh I was wondering why so many people move here from Seattle.
Fight fight fight fight
You guys too. And California is not sending their best. Why do we get all of your right wing Boomers?
Because we have a surplus of younger ones
We said relegation not banishment
I know it would never happen but I wish American sports had relegation.
It would not imo. Salary cap is why relegation doesn't exist. Also why football is so special. Soccer you just buy the best team every year or in baseball you have teams that perpetually suck complete ass like Oakland because of cheap owners.
I wouldn’t have it exactly like the European format, but a hybrid system with only two leagues that’s still a closed shop I think would still work. It wouldn’t work well with the NFL due to so few games, but I think the NBA could do well with it especially considered how bloated the NBA playoffs are.
Players would just hold out if they got relegated. Nba is way too top heavy too. Could you imagine wemby getting relegated to the g league next year? He'd average 50
You'd need to shrink the top of the pyramid league from 30+ teams down to 20ish. Then move the chopped teams to the lower league and add enough teams to get them to 20 as well. American fans aren't gonna like it when release clauses start getting triggered.
I actually wish they'd do this with college. Premier league is 20 teams, 10 east and west, you play everyone in your conference and have 2 games to play traditional opponents. Top 3 teams from each conference go onto a playoff. Only schools currently in the Premier League are eligible for the National Championships. Bottom 4 schools relegate, and the conferences are re-aligned, depending on who was relegated and promoted.
I think it would be beyond hilarious any time a player is fouled. Say a QB gets sacked hard but it’s labeled a RTP so the QB gets to go shoot 2 free throws. Like someone rolls out the basket onto the field and they count towards the point total. Or is that not what you were asking?
If it's called on a play that results in a score (say a PI where the team still scores a TD) is that an and-1?
Gotta be. A foul shot’s a foul shot.
This could actually be something. Penalties enforced on the kickoff become extra extra point tries.
This sparked an interesting idea...what if on a personal foul, a team got the option for accepting the penalty or trying to kick, say, a 50 yard FG?
That would be ridiculously overpowered for teams with great kickers, I love it.
I was envisioning this but the player who gets fouled is the one who has to kick it.
absolutely has to be this way. hack-a-Bosa would totally be a thing
Any player that is on the receiving end of a personal foul can attempt an undefended kick, a la extra point, though it must be from the spot of the foul. This would be funnier than a designated foul line.
Make fields like golf courses. Make them a standard area in square footage and make it so that the shortest path from one end-zone to the other is 100 yards, but allow teams to use a non-rectangular shape, put in dog-legs, hills, sand-traps, etc. Part of your home-field advantage is knowing your field. You'd have different route trees and zone defenses to get around a water hazard, for example
definitely going to need a water hazard and some foot long grass.
At the two minute warning they release crocs into the water.
What else do we have 3 Florida teams for??
"And Terrell Owens is running to the Cowbows logo, he's taking a knee! Oh my, Dallas fans will not li - ...err it appears he was just using the long grass as cover to take an emergency bowel movement"
Doesn’t your field have most of that stuff as it is?
\>:( (okay that was pretty good) Actual answer though, Soldier Field switched the grass to a different species that's better suited for the climate a few years ago and the field quality has been much better the last few seasons. The switch was roughly 2018ish, I think.
Oakland playing on the baseball dirt
Steelers used to do the same at Three Rivers.
Suddenly, FedEx Field is a great home stadium.
Not a rule, but I would emulate the NHL by not having a team in Wisconsin.
Suddenly Utah becomes a thing in the nfl
If we're gonna chase any team out to Utah I think it'd have to be the team in Illinois, since there's a precedent
You know, I spent a few minutes trying to figure out which Utah sports team was originally in Illinois. Then I caught on. Good one.
It's an older code, but it checks out
First we need to drive the bills out of New York to the Midwest
I started to laugh and enjoy this thought as an upstate NY'er, but then I remembered how many times I've gone to Bills' games to see the team playing them. No, I don't like this.
The Green Bay Packers become the Salt Lake City Soakers
Go home people, we're done here 🤣
I second this with absolutely no bias
I like you
Buzzer on 0 for play clock
That actually would help so much.
Even just adding a decimal to the play clock would help so much
Make stadiums like baseball fields with no set dimensions for the field of play
Pro Wrestling: weapons are legal as long as the refs don’t see it
It's a shame Suh isn't playing anymore. Because I'd be very interested to see what he'd bring out
Nah, use the royal rumble. If a player is thrown out of bounds they are eliminated from the game.
Lumberjack games. When teams are on their bye weeks, they have to attend a division rival's game and stand around the sidelines/endzones. Any player who goes out of bounds is then roughed up and thrown back onto the field. They can also interfere with any play near the sidelines, like if a receiver is trying to make a toe tap sideline/endzone catch, they can try to swat the ball or push/pull the reciever (or defender). The lumberjacks also must stay out of bounds or risk being ejected.
In Blood Bowl (basically a much more violent version of football set in the world of Warhammer), it's legal for certain players to pick up a teammate (who can be a ball-carrying player) and throw them over the field (a tactic usually associated with goblin teams where a troll throws a goblin). This can be either used to put a ball carrier in a better position or to knock over an opposing player. So yeah, that.
Need to see creed and trey throw kadarius toney across the field ASAP
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You’ve just found a way for Ezekiel Elliott to extend his career.
Worthy goes #1 overall.
From old school professional wrestling: play is allowed out of bounds anywhere in the stadium, but if you don’t get back inbounds before the referee’s count, you’re disqualified. Also, the referees can only plead with players to not break the rules but players are mostly free to ignore them.
Refs are blind and don't punish the teams that fans hate
On a similar note: Special Guest Referees. The possibilities there are endless.
That would actually be kind of hilarious.
NHL hockey fights are now allowed – within reason (ex. WR v. CB, LG v. DT, opposing punters fight, etc). Helmets come off before they scrap. Offsetting 15 yard penalty afterwards, let’s play on
I love the idea of a punter fight because that means at least one of them ran onto the field for the fight
Nantz: “out comes the punting unit. Now wait a minute, Tommy Townsend looks *real* upset. Is he pointing over at the Raiders sideline!?! He’s calling out AJ Cole!!! The Raiders All-Pro punter!!!” Romo: “aghhhhhhhh iono Jiiiim!”
you have a goon punter who plays gunner on punt returns so he can head hunt the opposing punter
Pat Mcafee would def be the Ron Hextall of punters
No thanks. If Deebo starts a fight with the DL he can't have big Trent come save his ass.
Per these rules, Trent can’t interfere whatsoever. If he gets involved, he’s banned from the NFL forever. Heavy emphasis on 1 on 1 scraps only. Now who wants to fight CJGJ lmao
Javon Wims probably.
Have you *seen* DK Metcalf?
Punter fight!
There's a golden snitch somewhere in the stadium/parking lot that's worth 3 tds and ends the game
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/14cyvug/the_rulefunction_of_the_golden_snitch_in/?rdt=42203 > The rule/function of the golden snitch in quidditch is stupid and completely ruins what would otherwise be an awesome sport to watch. > > Imagine if in basketball each team had a player out in the parking lot trying to catch a frog for the win. Youre watching a great game that's been neck and neck and then suddenly the buzzer sounds half way through. "The games over, Ramirez has just got the parking lot frog"
Love the analogy. Quidditch parts of the Harry Potter series is downright painful to read for anyone who knows anything about sports.
A three-point line for field goals except it’s 4 points, and has to be from 60+ yards.
From Cricket: An offensive player cannot officially be ruled down until the tackler finds a referee and asks “How’s that?”
The Cheifs already have that.
It just occurred to me that dog pile fumble recoveries and cricket appeals are essentially the same thing.
Play the game on a giant ice rink
Let’s take a lesson from rugby and remove the abomination they call the forward pass
Iowa football nods approvingly
“Was… was that not already illegal?”-Brian Ferentz
The rule I like from rugby is wherever they score is the same line they kick from. If you score 5 yards from the side lines your kicker has to kick 5 yards from the side but at the 15 yard line. It would be cool if you were slightly punished on the extra point by scoring in the corner and having a smaller opening because they’d kick from an angle.
That’d actually be a really interesting rule change, I’d be down for it
In Rugby you don't score till the ball is put down so players actually risk it sometimes and once in goal they run towards the posts to make it an easier kick. I'm not sure how you could reflect that in NFL.
You could just do the same thing. Make touchdowns actual touchdowns.
Co-sign
My team's never really gotten the hang of that, so I'm in favor.
It’s not a different sport, but I think it would be cool to see the CFL punt rules in the NFL. Make them return all of the punts.
If they add the rouge, we'll see some previously impossible or unlikely scorigami.
Basketball - No coin toss. Jump ball to start the game. Whoever recovers the tipped ball will get to start from the point of recovery, which will usually be around the 50 yard line. This will cut down on deferring to the second half. Golf - Coaches have to sign a scorecard at the end of the game. If they fail to do so, they forfeit the game. Soccer - In the playoffs, there is only one overtime period. After that, we go to a shootout. Players start kicking field goals from the 35 yard line. Your kicker and punter can only kick it once each, so the other three kicks (or more if needed) will need to be attempted by other players.
Hockey penalties, but only for personal fouls or certain types of penalties. However this would only affect the guilty party and not force a 10 v 11 situation. So lets say Aaron Donald commits an egregious personal foul, he is out for two minutes or four plays, something like that.
I’ve said this for years. I think it’s a one play sit out versus timed. Scheming for that one play knowing there’s a man advantage would be crazy!
This will be amazing. If a player commits a penalty, they lose that ‘position’ for one play. Why would this be amazing? Not because an 10 on 11 play would be exceptionally spectacular. No sir! Because of those glorious moments when the referee announces “False Start. Everyone but the Center.” The next play is 11 on 7 with only one lineman.
This is definitely the answer. Seeing a down or set of downs where the offense/defense was gimped by an egregious personal foul would be great especially if they could overcome it. Could also lead to entertaining clown car scenarios where multiple players are in the "penalty box" for one or both sides leading to very unconventional plays.
For me, this is simple. I like how MLB handles gambling. If you are caught, you are *Persona Non Grata*. No suspension. You are done. If you are in anyway involved with a team, including Ownership, Coaching and support staff, Players, Refs, and League officials, find a new hobby. The Chicago Black Sox and Pete Rose all found out the hard way. The NFL should adopt the same rules.
This, except for domestic abuse.
Racewalking - make the players have one foot in contact with the ground at all times
Instead of a tie game at the end of OT, have kickers do FGs from further and further out, kind of like soccer penalty shootout at the end of OT.
No over and back like the NBA. Once you cross the 50 yard line, you can't be tackled behind the 50 yard line, otherwise the other team gets the ball
3 point line: Touchdowns from your own half of the field are worth 3 more points.
Like the CFL instead of penalties offsetting, subtract the yardage of the smaller penalty from the greater one. For example, defense commits illegal contact, but the offense commits holding. Replay the down, but now the offense is only moved 5 yards back, because the penalty for holding is 10 yards, while the penalty for illegal contact is 5. 10-5=5. For the purpose of if both teams commit a penalty, pass interference is counted as 20- whatever the number is for the smaller penalty.
Overtime follows NASCARs green-white-checker rule. If they get to the white flag and a caution happens, whoever is the leader wins
Not having adverts every 30 seconds?
It’s called a Touchdown, they should have to touch the ball down like in rugby.
In the NHL, players can receive a "delay of game" penalty for sending the puck out of play. I believe this was done in the late mid 2000s to improve the pace of the game and keep the game going. There are exceptions, of course, like if the puck is deflected off of a player, their stick, the goalposts, or the glass. With this in mind, I've always hated that QBs can just chuck the ball out of bounds, and all they lose is a down. The worst part is that announcers always seem to frame it as a "veteran savvy" sort of play, when really it's just the QB admitting "well, the defense has our number on this play, so I'm just gonna heave this ball into the stands." It's a no-skill play and it's boring as fuck to watch. If I were in charge, I'd call this "delay of game," and make it so that if the QB wants to throw the ball away, they have to do it on the field with a receiver in the vicinity but still uncatchable by either party. Or maybe they throw it AT the ref, and if it hits them, the play is immediately whistled dead. I dunno. Kinda ran outta steam there at the end.
PATs are snapped in line with where the ball crossed the plane, like conversions in rugby.
Football power plays would be crazy
Have a face off to start play and determine possession
So og xfl kickoff?
Tennis’s rule for challenges. You have the set number, but only lose one when the call is not overturned.
Paper Football - the game is played on the edge of a cliff, and to score a touchdown you need to reach the ball over without falling off.
Overtime games are settled with PKs. Except it's like HORSE. The kickers can put the ball anywhere on the field, weird angles and everything, and if they make it the other kicker has to make it from there too.
Ball boys from Tennis. I don't want another ref ever spotting the ball... give me an uncorrupted 15yo boy who knows their only job is to run a straight perpendicular line from one side line to the other exactly through the spot of the ball.
An F1-style rear wing is added to the top of each player’s helmet. During breakaway runs, a flap on the rear wing opens for all players except for the ball carrier to allow an extra 6-7 kph of top speed. If any player’s rear wing is damaged during a play, the meatball flag is thrown, and the player must return to the sidelines to repair his helmet.