Football is dying

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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114148/nfl-rules-changes-when-football-no-longer-football#

NFL Rules Changes: When Is Football No Longer Football?


Three changes in the way the National Football League plays football are helping to give us a good idea of the shape of things to come. Several months ago, the Competition Committee adopted a new rule banning ball-carriers from lowering their helmets into oncoming defenders in an attempt to break free of the tackle. (The committee also eliminated the so-called “Tuck Rule,” which is probably the least controversial thing the committee has ever done, unless you’re a Patriots fan.) This week, the NFL announced that the Pro Bowl—the much-ballyhooed all-star game that takes place the weekend before the Super Bowl—will not have kick-offs. And new rules, the New York Times reported this week, have all but eliminated tackling during preseason camps.

All of these changes are designed to make the game safer for the players. At the same time, all disadvantage particular types of players (respectively: running backs, who can no longer gain extra yardage by lowering their helmets; kick-returners, whose jobs just got less prestigious; and linebackers as well as defenders generally, who can’t practice tackling technique). And all raise a question that, one worries, the league, led by bungling megalomaniac Roger Goodell, is not thinking carefully enough about: What makes football football?

 

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NFL owners pass rules changes on peel-back blocks, overloaded kick formations - The Globe and Mail

I clicked on this dead link and was googling around for a new one.

Led me to this nfl site, which I don't believe I was aware of before.
http://www.nflevolution.com/article...ayer-health-and-safety-related-rules?ref=7238



Countdown of recent safety measures:
http://www.nflevolution.com/article...arks-to-crackback-blocks?ref=0ap1000000224872

A receiver who has completed a catch is a "defenseless player" until he has had time to protect himself or has clearly become a runner. A receiver/runner is no longer defenseless if he is able to avoid or ward off the impending contact of an opponent. Previously, the receiver who had completed a catch was protected against an opponent who launched and delivered a blow to the receiver's head.

I guess flags for separating the ball from the receiver using any more than just the hands will be the norm now.

 

[porque]

 

[diggy]

I clicked on this dead link and was googling around for a new one.

Led me to this nfl site, which I don't believe I was aware of before.
http://www.nflevolution.com/article...ayer-health-and-safety-related-rules?ref=7238



Countdown of recent safety measures:
http://www.nflevolution.com/article...arks-to-crackback-blocks?ref=0ap1000000224872

I guess flags for separating the ball from the receiver using any more than just the hands will be the norm now.

A hit like that would probably have me sucking my thumb and looking over my shoulder the rest of my life, Jesus

 

[FreedS[ohh]lave]

when I say jump the shark, I dont mean that MLB or the NBA will surpass them. I believe the gap between the NFL and everyone is leveling out and then will get smaller, whereas its been nothing but growing the last 25+ years.

I agree though i think aside from this year where the nba has finally made a leap id say the nfl AND mlb have leaped past the other two sports by alot the past 5 years before the past season

MLB has done everyhting to shoot itself in the foot and still made near 8 billion people in the coli underestimate its powrr in the country
http://adage.com/article/news/baseball-college-football-hot-cleats/239014/

 

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A hit like that would probably have me sucking my thumb and looking over my shoulder the rest of my life, Jesus

It's always been a legit hit, though.

Soon enough, they might start throwing flags for intimidating receivers who drop passes because they took their eyes off the ball too fast to look for oncoming hits.

 

[QuintessentialBM]

I'm not gonna s**t on American football because I love it and still watch it but I'm an avid soccer fan(and a Black American). I only follow 1 or 2 teams from NFL, NCAA & NBA so I can follow soccer matches. I, personally, do not care to know what every team is doing, whether it's FO moves or off the field player antics. The only teams I can about are the ones I support. Other team/league news that is important will be caught on Sportscenter or a soccer highlight show. DVR is your friend.

College Football: OU Sooners.... When the Sooners aren't on then I will watch the best SEC or rivalry game..... When both are on at the same time, the SEC/rivalry game gets DVR'd.

NFL: Rams/Colts... I watch the game unless Barca/Arsenal is playing... DVR

Soccer: Barcelona/Arensal(and Sunderland while Altidore is there)/MLS. Barca... I follow religiously.... Arsenal.. I usually have a harder time following because unless they are playing Man Utd/City/Chelsea, a lot of their games aren't shown in the US(NBC is going to change that). There usually isn't a conflict with football because it comes on early in the morning on SAT/SUN and OU mostly plays night games unless it's Texas and that game gets priority over everything... If there is... DVR.... Soccer is much easier to follow during the week. I try to watch/DVR the best MLS matches on regular TV....

NBA: LA Lakers/OKC Thunder..... Night games. DVR.... I also DVR the TNT NBA games for Inside the NBA.

I also take advantage of re-airings and YouTube.

F**k BASEBALL
F**k HOCKEY
F**k GOLF
F**k TENNIS
F**k NASCAR
F**k TEXAS HOLD EM
F**k BASS FISHING
F**k X-GAMES

 

[Xerces]

Fox soccer channel. Channel 619 if you have direct tv. And as far as merch unless your particular city has a team I don't think you'll find a lot but that's pretty much true for any team in any sport so you'll pretty much have to go online (which you should probably do since it will usually have the latest gear of the team you decide to ride with).


*edit* meant to quote last emp

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Fox soccer channel. Channel 619 if you have direct tv. And as far as merch unless your particular city has a team I don't think you'll find a lot but that's pretty much true for any team in any sport so you'll pretty much have to go online (which you should probably do since it will usually have the latest gear of the team you decide to ride with).


*edit* meant to quote last emp

Yeah.. That's what I'm using for the soccer highlights

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

This got to be a photoshop.

If not FOOTBALL IS DYING!!!!!!!!!!

 

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http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/221998/report-nfl-pressured-espn-to-drop-documentary/

A “combative meeting” between NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NFL Network President Steve Bornstein, ESPN President John Skipper and ESPN executive John Wildhack preceded ESPN’s decision to abandon an investigation into head injuries, James Andrew Miller reports.

During the meeting, Miller’s sources say, “league officials conveyed their displeasure with the direction of the documentary, which is expected to describe a narrative that has been captured in various news reports over the past decade: the league turning a blind eye to evidence that players were sustaining brain trauma on the field that could lead to profound, long-term cognitive disability.”

 

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at Bostic being fined for that hit on a "defenseless receiver".

 

[Gandolpiffini]

Add more rules and flags and ruin the purity of the game breh

 

[kingofnyc]

at Bostic being fined for that hit on a "defenseless receiver".

u LOST for NOT even understanding the meaning to the whole 'baseball is dying'
it has noting to do with rule changes & players injuries

its thread is so stupid........

 

[porque]

u LOST for NOT even understanding the meaning to the whole 'baseball is dying'
it has noting to do with rule changes & players injuries

its thread is so stupid........