Sports rules changes you would like to see changed

[JustSomeJackass]

George Carlin has a famous bit about rules changes for sports, but I am looking for more...

I wish the NFL would allow players to be picked up and thrown. In the 80's you had the Refrigerator getting the goal line carries...let's go the opposite direction...have the biggest lineman on the team line up in the backfield next to a midget (or liitle person, dwarf, freakishly tiny dude, whichever PC term you prefer..just not the ones with the tiny hands or they will fumble too much) and the QB will hand the midget the ball and he will be picked up by the lineman and chucked into the end zone. Maybe give an extra 3 if he clears the uprights. The other team would have to counter by tossing their own midget(s) into the air to try to collide and stop the other one before they cross the plane of the end zone. It would revolutionize the game.

Goal line opportunities aren't the only role though...you could do the same thing for blocking field goals.

Let's liven up some of these games..especially the low scoring ones like hockey and soccer.

I do enjoy the recent changes to the PBA tour...where the bowlers trash talk into the camera. ("Oh yeah Baby, there's plenty more where that came from!!!") It is only a matter of time before they are allowed to creatively interfere with the other bowler.

I need a hobby.

JSJ

[Clarkmeister]

I didn't know they still played hockey?

[B00T]

To fix hockey, easiest thing is to can the red line in the NHL (if it ever comes back)

Widening the goals would be better as well. The goals are ok, but with the increased size in goalie equipment the amount of open space has collectively shrunk. Now I understand players shoot harder, and I dont have a problem with the safety of goalies in mind. You do have to increase the size of the goals to make the same amount of empty space as their used to be.

[razor]

[ QUOTE ]
Widening the goals would be better as well. The goals are ok, but with the increased size in goalie equipment the amount of open space has collectively shrunk. Now I understand players shoot harder, and I dont have a problem with the safety of goalies in mind. You do have to increase the size of the goals to make the same amount of empty space as their used to be.

[/ QUOTE ]

But would 10" goalie pads really impact goalies safety... I hear some tv bobbleheads talk like this is so, but I don't get how. The goalie catching glove is also ridiculously big.

I really don't see how cutting back on the size of goalies equipment will impact their safety.

Also, if the goalie goes out of his crease to play the puck he should be fair game (now that will impact their safety)... but I simply don't understand how a goalie should be allowed to go into the corner to play the puck and be immune from getting hit. If you don't wanna get hit, stay in the crease.

Reduce goalie equipment size, make goalies fair game if they leave the net to play the puck, tag up offside and no red line. That just might open things up enough to eliminate the effectiveness of clutching and grabbing.

[Peca277]

[ QUOTE ]
Also, if the goalie goes out of his crease to play the puck he should be fair game (now that will impact their safety)... but I simply don't understand how a goalie should be allowed to go into the corner to play the puck and be immune from getting hit. If you don't wanna get hit, stay in the crease.


[/ QUOTE ]

Seeing the goalies then get pissed and start fighting would also be more entertaining. Big brawls make hockey more fun... and it never gets better than seeing 2 goalies attempting to beat the crap out of each other.

I agree with the no red line when hockey finally returns. 2-line pass calls just slow the game down too much.

[B00T]

its a catch-22 with the goalie pads. You can make them smaller and keep the goals, or let them be the current size and just widen the goals to compensate. The pads were enlarged due to safety and now are becoming pompous. You can take away their safety arguement by just making the goals bigger and they can still feel as comfortable as they do now with their gaudy oversized equipment. Either way the ratio size of goalie equipment to goal needs to be decreased in either facet.

I agree let the goalies get creamed playin the puck. Let a defenseman go back there and play it and give the offense more of a chance to intercept the clear attempt and have an odd man opportunity with the other defenseman behind the net.

[zephed56]

Two line pass is definitely the dumbest rule ever. That would open the game up a lot. Who cares if it allows cherrypickin.
Goalies being fair game would be a blast, it would also stop the goalie from blocking the wraparounds.
Change icing, so it is only icing if you clear from behind your own blue line. 3 periods, 3 zones.

End regular season games with shootouts after the 5 minute overtime period. Who cares if it's not a major part of the game, it's exciting as hell and there's always a winner!
Or make the goalies fight to determine the winner.

[AncientPC]

I wish all divisions of college football had instant replay. Some of the calls refs make are just plain wrong.

[JTrout]

the "tuck" rule

[youtalkfunny]

I never liked the fact that the defensive linemen can be called for "offsides" if his flinch "draws" the O-lineman out of his stance. I stayed on my side of the ball, never even came into the neutral zone, and **I'm** offsides?

Also, I'm the only man in America who doesn't like it when the game stops for 20 minutes so the official can go look at a replay. I was SO in favor of replay when the debate raged before it was introduced. But it's too much of a disruption to the game. I'd rather deal with a few blown calls per year, then putting every other mundane play under the microscope.

I watched Tony Dungy challenge a play this week. The opponent's QB was hit while his arm was cocked to throw. The ball came lose, and a linebacker picked up the ball. The whistle blew immediately, and it was ruled on the field that the QB's arm was moving forward, incomplete pass.

I'm thinking, "Close call, but they can't review it. The play was whistled dead." Dungy tossed the red flag anyways.

The ref announced, "OK, we'll look at it. But if it wasn't an incomplete pass, the defense STILL doesn't get the ball--we'll just call it a sack." We wasted ten minutes to see if the next play would be 2nd and 10, or 2nd and 13.

PHOOEY!