What I would do as NFL comissioner

[sasquatch]

#1. All new stadiums will either be outdoors or have retractable roofs with real grass. No field turf for outdoor stadiums.

#2. The Jets will have to find a new home. For example they should move to Shea and let the Giants have the Meadowlands to themselves.

#3. All outdoor stadiums should have real grass and all indoor stadiums should have field turf installed. With the exception of the Cowboys because Texas stadium doesn't allow enough sunlight in to grow grass.

#4. White jersey's on the road, Team colors at home. The way it was intended or vice versa like basketball and hockey. You've got that Cowboys, Dolphins and Browns:grr:

#5. Not only will we still have a salary cap, we will have a floor as well. If you do not spend the minnimum your team will have to forfeit it's control over to a NFL appointed GM.

#6. The Ravens will move to Indianapolis and the Colts will move back to Baltimore. The players won't change hands only the uniforms and current records. Modell will still own the Baltimore franchise and whomever owns the Indianapolis franchise will still own it. The Indianapolis franchise will have the right to change it's name though if it wants.

#7. The league will continue to apologize to the fans in Baltimore, Cleveland and Oakland for not showing them loyalty. Because what happened to them was unforgivable.

#8. The Dallas Cowboys will no longer be known as "Americas Team". No one is truly "Americas Team".

#9. LA will never have a pro team because the fans in LA only showup if your winning. That isn't good team loyalty and I don't care how much you complain about it.

#10. Jack Tatum will be put into the pro football hall of fame in Canton Ohio. It makes no sense to have the best Free Safety in the 70's not in the Hall of Fame.


I hope you like it:) Comments are welcomed:)

[sasquatch]

1. What no comments or kicks?

:kick: Sheesh:(

[Gman]

2. I'd just disband the league

as being totally pointless and boring since "parity" kicked in. Every team runs the same boring plays.... 1st down, run up the middle, 2nd down, slant pass for 5 yards, 3rd down: if long, slant pass for 12 yards, if short, run up the middle... over and over and over. The jersey colors change. The plays are the same and in the same boringly predictable series.

Why bother anymore?

[sasquatch]

4. No it isn't

A lot of teams pass on first down now. Teams use power running plays now more than ever. A lot of teams are embracing spread formations and use the pass to set up the run. You obviously haven't been watching any football.

[Gman]

7. You are correct...

little 5 yard slant plays on 1st down too. There is no dominant player in the league. There are no dominating running backs like Earl Campbell, Tony Dorsett or Bo Jackson. There are no more "fly and scramble by the seat of their pants" quarterbacks like Staubach or Fran Tarkenton.

The whole league looks the same. The jersey colors are different. Parity has completely ruined the league and there are a helluva lot of people that agree with me on that.

[SmileyBoy]

11. No dominant players?? Randy Moss, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre...

...Steve McNair, Warren Sapp, Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick, etc???

The great thing about the superstars nowadays is that they're not veterans, they're in their prime. Imagine how big these players will be worldwide once they become veterans???

[sasquatch]

17. They probably are already and we don't know it yet

American football is very popular in Germany and they sell out all of their home games. They plan to open a fourth team in Germany because of it's popularity there.

[Kellanved]

28. not really

Most people only go to the games for the pre-match party. Pretty much an Americafest.
In addition to the NFL spinoff there is a real League (Bundesliga) with people attending becuause of the game.

http://www.amfid.de/sites/amfid/ (and according to an Expat the games aren't that bad).

[Kellanved]

3. can't really comment

As I don't like American Football.
I wonder however: don't you have the turf-on-a-slide like modern European stadiums?
The turf is on a giant slide and only moved indoors for the games.

Besides that: great ideas (How can something so quasi-socialistic(draft etc) like the NFL survive in the US?)

[sasquatch]

6. "Sheesh...Don't say that they'll wake up"

Then they'll embrace social justice and tell the corporate powers to go fuck themselves. You know what we'll get then? Young black males that don't depend on athletics as a way out of their poverty filled lives.

[jason_sanchez]

5. Changes to "challenge" rule

I would make two changes:
- First, I would remove limits on successful challenges. Right now, a team is limited to two challenges per game, EVEN IF THE CHALLENGES ARE SUCCESSFUL. Last year, St. Louis challenged two calls in the first half of a game. Both times, the challenges were upheld. But because of the two-challenge limit rule, they were OUT of challenges for the rest of the game.
- If a team's challenge is successful, they should be AWARDED a timeout.

[sasquatch]

10. I'd just give them free challenges

If you screw up your down to one. Screw up again and your down to none and you don't get anymore. If your succesful it doesn't count against you and you still have the minnimum of two:) How's that:thumbsup:or:thumbsdown:.

[SmileyBoy]

8. I agree with everything except the Field Turf part.

I would make it a requirement for all stadiums to have Field Turf. Field Turf is the wave of the future. That stuff is a whole shitload better than hard turf, and it's better than grass too. I think grass sucks nowadays. Grass isn't of any quality anymore. Did you ever see the old grass in the Meadowlands a few years ago?? The old grass at Foxboro?? Players said that they would rather play on hard turf than that shitty, clumpy muddy grass in those places before they replaced them.

I would do away with grass as well as that "House of Pain" style astroturf. I would make it so a regulation NFL field has to have Field Turf.

[sasquatch]

12. I like to see the players get dirty though

I don't like watching them leave the field with clean uniforms. Seems unnatrual to me:( The real stuff has more give than the field turf I understand. It seemd when Ohio State played on it at Michigan there were a lot of twited ankle's and knees. Then again maybe I'm just nitpicking because I like it the old way:)

[SmileyBoy]

16. Coming from a equipment guy:

I'm an equipment assistant for North Dakota State football. I've had to deal with laundry many times over the season. And it REALLY pisses off the folks in the equipment department when they have to wash uniforms over and over and over again to try to get the dirt off. It means more laundry work for me personally, when I could be spending my time doing other important things like repairing pads, attaching new face masks and cleaning helmets. It puts a LOT more work on the equipment people.

But then again, I'm talking from my personal experience.;-)

[sasquatch]

22. Me too!!

I loved playing football in the mud:) It was fun for not only us but the fans as well:) Also if you live above the sun belt you've got excellent home field advantage. The heelish playing surface of Buffalo, Cincinnati, CLeveland, Chicago, Green Bay, Minnesota and New York. One of the reasons the Bengals beat the Chargers in the '81 "Freezer Bowl" was because it was 5 degrees above 0 in Cincinnati. The Bengals psyched them out by not wearing long sleeves when they were playing in "The Jungle" and the Chargers were so called they could hardly move:evilgrin:

[SmileyBoy]

25. Oh, I advocate outdoor stadiums myself.

I'm personally rooting for the Vikings to go forward with that plan to build a 65,000-seat outdoor stadium in Arden Hills, MN. In the northern climates that's a big advantage, and one that the Vikings (i.e.) should understand. Domes were a fad. But like I said, I'm still in favour of Field Turf though, for the reasons I stated.

But should it be a necessity for a team to play indoors when the climate is TOO cold?? I live in Fargo, home of NDSU football. We play in a 19,000-seat domed stadium, the Fargodome. Earlier this month, the week before our second to last game, the high temp in Fargo dropped to below zero. ON NOVEMBER 4TH AND 5TH. We basically for health reasons, couldn't practice outdoors, and had to practice in the Dome that whole week. I recieved frostbite on my hands during one outdoor pracitce in 5 degree weather, even though I had gloves on. Temps like that in Fargo in mid to late football season are not uncommon.

Which begs the question: Does it get to a point where it's necessary to build an indoor stadium in a climate that can get dangerously cold in November and December???

[sasquatch]

26. I have an idea with dirty beat up Uniforms!

If they play on grass like I said and the Jersey's are ruined then sell them at auctions. Give 65% of the proceeds to the United Way and the team can keep the rest to spend on extra Uni's. That'll raise more money for the UW then collecting at offices because used jersey's sell for big bucks:) BTW I'd love to go to a game in Minnesota outdoors in below 0 weather. Sorry about the frost bite BTW:(

[ronzo]

9. Adopt the NCAA OT rules.

Or bring it to a vote with the owners. That'd be my first move.

[SmileyBoy]

13. NO WAY!!! The NCAA OT is the STUPIDEST thing ever devised!!!

When I first saw a college football OT, I thought it was the stupidest goddamn thing I ever had seen. Each team starts at the opponent's 25?? No time clock?? If you score first, you DON'T WIN??? That's just stupid.

OT in football is supposed to be SUDDEN DEATH. I'm supposed to bite my fingernails when a game is in OT. Not sit back and drink my beer and say, "Well, they scored, now we have to score a TD." and not be excited about it. NCAA OT rules suck all the suspense out of OT.

A REAL OT is supposed to be relying on your powers on offense or defense. OT isn't supposed to be designed like a fucking spelling bee.

[ronzo]

15. Ok then...

I respect your right to have an opinion. :)

[SmileyBoy]

18. And I do too...

I'm an American, after all.:eyes:

[camero]

21. Too many OT's decided by the coin toss.

I would do this:

Keep the coin toss but each team only gets 1 series to score. if neither or both teams score the same, it's a tie.

Then, you'll see more teams trying to score touchdowns then just having a race to the 30 yard line.

[SmileyBoy]

23. But only 59 percent of teams that win the toss win OT games.

In fact, this year I think more teams that lost the toss have won OT. Correct me if I'm wrong.

And the Greatest Game, the 1958 NFL championship??? Baltimore won, but the Giants won the toss.

[sasquatch]

24. That's still too much though

The NFL shouldn't be a game of "chance" in overtime. Read post #19 by me:)

[sasquatch]

14. Ok, but...

They'll have to start on the 50 yd line instead of the opposing teams 25 yard line. That's the best of both worlds but I think it'll fail because of TV time and the NY vs Baltimore overtime NFL championship game is too much of a classic to throw the system away.

[frylock]

19. the problem with ncaa ot rules..

you don't even need to move the ball, and can still score with a 42 yard field goal. That's not too difficult for a decent NFL calibre kicker. They should move the ball back the 45 yard line.

[ronzo]

20. Concur.

I like sasquatch's idea. Start at the 50.

[sasquatch]

27. Thanks for agreeing with me

Selfish:kick::evilgrin:

[BlueCollar]

29. either eliminate OT completely

and have a tie...

or play a full damn quarter...

winning the toss and kicking a field goal is ridiculous...


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