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Dec. 6, 2012 2:30pm Liz Klimas

Commissioner Roger Goodell Says the NFL Is Considering a Proposal to Eliminate the Kickoff in Time Magazine Interview

Denver Broncos kick off to the San Diego Chargers in an NFL football game in Denver in 2011. (Photo: AP/Jack Dempsey, File)

Could American football games someday never have the crescendoing ”ooooooaaaahhhh” from the fans of the home team as the kicker of the rival runs toward the pigskin in a kickoff play? They might not if the idea mentioned by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to do away with the kickoff comes to fruition.

How you might ask would the ball be returned to the other team? Goodell explained in a Time magazine profile by Sean Gregory:

[...] after a touchdown or field goal, instead of kicking off, a team would get the ball on its own 30-yard line, where it’s fourth and 15. The options are either to go for it and try to retain possession, or punt. If you go for it and fall short, the opposing team would take over with good field position. In essence, punts would replace kickoffs, and punts are less susceptible to violent collisions than kickoffs.

“The fact is,” Goodell, told Gregory of the idea first posed by Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano, “it’s a much different end of the play…It’s an off-the-wall idea. It’s different and makes you think differently. It did me.”

New England Patriots kick off against the New York Giants in an NFL football game in Foxborough, Mass., in 2011. (Photo: AP/Michael Dwyer, File)

ESPN explained that Schiano, who coached at Rutgers University in 2010, witnessed player Eric LeGrand receiving a paralyzing injury a during a kickoff return:

Schiano told ESPN The Magazine in September that he believed kickoffs would eventually be eliminated from pro football. “I believe that day will come. Unfortunately, it will probably take more players being seriously hurt. But I think there’s another way to do this.”

Former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand, right, and his mother Karen LeGrand pictured in 2011. (Photo: AP/Mel Evans, File)

The NFL has already instituted new kickoff rules to make that portion of the game safer. According to the NFL earlier this year, the new rules have already helped reduce the number of reported concussions in the league. Last season, the NFL moved kickoffs up to the 35-yard line (a five yard adjustment), which has increased the number of touchbacks.

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Pierre Garcon (85) is hit by Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Dan Skuta (51) on a kickoff during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in 2010. (Photo: AP/Darron Cummings)

Tennessee Titans kick returner Marc Mariani (83) gets set to receive the opening kickoff against the Arizona Cardinals in the first quarter of an NFL football preseason game this year. (Photo: AP/Joe Howell)

In addition to reducing the risk of “catastrophic injury,” according to NBC Sports, such a move would also give punters, long snappers and gunners, as well as punt return teams, more time and value on the field. At the same time, though “kickoff specialists would become extinct, and return specialists who are much better returning kicks than punts would be far less valuable to the broader roster,” NBC Sports pointed out.

Just as not all fans were happy with the league moving up the kickoff a few yards, Gregory speculates the idea to eliminate it completely would not be well received either, as it is often an exciting part of the game that can occasionally yield long returns. And if teams start taking advantage of the opportunity, it could alter the game dramatically.

Let us know what you think about this proposal by taking our poll:

Read more of Gregory’s in-depth profile of Goodell in Time magazine here.

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Comments (244)

Dudley Do-Right
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:56pm
Hey Roger…I have a better idea! Just replace the referee’s penalty flags with yellow and red cards. If I want to watch a soccer game, I’ll change the channel.

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- iampraying4u
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:42pm
  they should play touchie football
  
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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:50pm
  Fix the problem.
  If violent collisions are the problem, do one of two things. Change the way these Pro pukes are taught to lead with the helmet. College players rarely do that. Coaches in the NFL bear the responsibility.
  Teach proper tackling technique. It is completely absent from NFL football. Fundementals!
  
  Either that or give them back the leather helmets. That’ll get them to change behavior real quick.
  
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- ICSPADES
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:53pm
  Let them smoke crack on the sideline and drink a 40oz. along with it all while making millions of dollars.
  All of the real players who played for the sport are gone or retired. Football is for the thugs now.
  
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- Paool
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:07pm
  @ICSPADES – I don’t know about all that. The problem is, just like in the msm and politics, you only really ever hear about one side. There a lot of good players who do a lot of good for the community in out reach programs and lead straight and narrow lives (at least not ones of debauchery and hooliganism.) Be careful of large encompassing statements like those, they paint a picture that just isn’t accurate.
  
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- black9897
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:29pm
  This is absurd. They better not do this. I love football and watch it because it’s football…! The game is dangerous, don’t want to risk it then don’t’ play.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:38pm
  If as a country we were half as concerned with individuals safety and well being as we seem to be with very low probability football injuries, we would learn the lesson of Vietnam and remove ourselves from most of the military conflicts we get involved in. There is no honor in representing you country in conflicts it does not belong in. At least for no other reason than to feed the military industrial complex. Ron Paul is the only politician who is on recognizes the simple constitutional truth….. the government is authorized to form and operate a military for the purpose of national defense. Not the often stated BS about interest of national security.
  
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- Dan_o
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:01pm
  They should be reducing the effectiveness of pads and helmets so the first sign of injury isn’t with the brain.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Pink dresses for quarterbacks.
  
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- Favored93
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:50pm
  Risk of injury is why this sport is fun to play and watch! If you take away the risk of injury you are taking away the fun and point of the game which is to “BE A MAN AND PLAY THROUGH IT”!
  
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- Dudley Do-Right
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:52pm
  I’m throwing the flag at JROOK. Delay of game, 5 post penalty!
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:55pm
  If they’re going to get rid of most of the actual “kicking” in football, i respectfully request that they give the name “football” back to soccer. Soccer had it first, anyway.
  From now on “football” would be “soccer” and “soccer” would be “football”.
  All football fans do is disrespect the only two guys on the team that actually connect their “foot” to the “ball” anyhow.
  
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- edcoil
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:01pm
  The idiots in charge will not be happy until A-Girls can play the game and B-multimillionaire players and rape the fan for more millions until they walk out with a cane. Then, the cane community will sue for unfair advantage.
  
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- R1dd1ck
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:19pm
  JRook. What does Ron Paul have to do with kick offs in the NFL? Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Now go hang out with the rest of the Ron Paulies.
  
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- SeanW
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:04pm
  South Park did it already. Just last month…. episode called Sarcastaball.
  
  http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e08-sarcastaball
  
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- TROONORTH
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:13pm
  You want a real improvement to American football? Make it three downs instead of four. This makes the game much faster and gets the ball into the air a lot more. No more grubbing around on the ground for a few yards gain. First down. Second down. TOUCH DOWN! Works well in Canada.
  
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- saranda
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:43pm
  how about finding a way to generate more than 12 minutes of action in a typical 3 hour game. Or playing it on ice with skate, sticks and a puck. now that would a real game with 60 minutes of action per game.
  
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- usmc1063
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:15pm
  Hmmm maybe they need pink flags instead.
  
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- PCDoctors4u2
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:17pm
  I saw a movie once with Wayans and Willis where the running back was carrying heat Nobody touched that guy! But then that was a fiction Movie all about sports and gambling, that could never happen. When I get the urge to see a live game, I put in my Original Madden 1964 and watch Bart Starr in the Ice Bowl, and when the urge passes to go to the game and face parking hassles, and submit to the public restrooms, and $8 beer and loud, obnoxious, violent fans, to sit in my $100 seats… I grab the remote on my 70 inch with surround sound and tune in “dancing with my stars” where I can still see all of my favorites trying to do that right thing, and suddenly life doesn’t feel so painful. I wonder how much revenue the Football industrial Complex contributes to the World Economy and why anyone would want to change such an excellent diversion to this mundane life?
  
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- Ditto Head
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:33pm
  And require all the players to wear ****** guards.
  
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- FlamingFartSyndrome
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:36am
  I have an idea! Instead of tackling eachother, the players should give each other hugs!
  
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- express34
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:19am
  I’ve said for years that Roger Goodell is the worst NFL Commissioner ever!! This right here proves it. I wish this guy would step down before he totally ruins the game. He moved the kickoff up to the 35 yd line this year so there would be more touchbacks. If he wants to eliminate kickoffs, shouldn’t he just make the receiving team start at their own 20 yd line instead of this wacky 4th & 15 idea? This guy should go work for the U.N.
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:37am
  I have for always been for giving them back the leather helmets, They would actually have to play with finesse, rather than just be a human missile.
  
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- Conkuur
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:32am
  I KNOW! Maybe they can all wear pink tutu’s and wear little pink flags hooked to them by velcro and instead of tackling or touching at all they just pull the little pink flag off the player?!!!!!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:17am
  What they should do is eliminate tackling altogether and replace it with harsh, but gender neutral and eco-sensitive language as the deterrent to the other team making a touchdown.
  
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- AlwaysAmazed
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:09am
  @JROOK
  Ron Paul will soon be dead (not that I wish that on him, but) he will surely never be elected president. It is time to find another horse to bet on. He has joined the ranks of Romney, McLame, HW Bush, Dole, etc. Their time is past.
  
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- AlwaysAmazed
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:37am
  @ DITTO HEAD
  Funny! Yeah, they do seem to get carried away at the ‘censor table’ at times. We’ve been talking about lady parts for the past 18 months – just can’t name those parts.
  Oh well; Their House – Their Rules, I suppose, Virginia.
  
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- Buck Bagaw
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:13am
  Nothing is more pathetic than a “fan”, someone whose spare (and valuable) time is pissed away watching games being played by someone else, with the outcome being totally meaningless in the scheme of things. If you used half the time you spend with eyes fixed on the tube and shoving chips and suds down your maw actually learning or accomplishing something yourself, you would be much better off physically, mentally, and financially. It (the game) is placed there to keep your attention off what is being done to us by the powers that be, and you are stupidly playing into their hands.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:36am
  If they want to pansy up football even further than it has been already, there has to be a corollary move to toughen up, say, baseball. For example, allow them to use their bats between the bases to beat the basemen. And perhaps allow the players to throw the ball directly at the runners on base and count that as an “out”. I’d buy season tickets.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:59pm
  Glad I quit watching football. I am telling you now I believe Goodell is invested in soccer and working from the top of the inside to destroy the nfl and make soccer the one world sport. Why don’t they just put on flags.
  
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- garylee123
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:54pm
  Amen.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:36pm
  I prefer lingerie football. Instead of tackling the opponent replace the hit with a fanny slap.
  
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- TooMuchSense
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:44pm
  Just stop spearing, or otherwise leading with the helmet in tackling. Look at old game films, when they tackled, not rammed with their feet off the ground or nearly so.
  
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Tifn8r
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:56pm
Ooooh- I have an idea.

Let’s just make them stop running after the kickoff whenever someone touches them. Then there’s no collision.

We could also make it a much nicer game if everyone wears pink, so fans and players think about boobies and mommies all the way through.

Then we could make them all stop using bad language, and wear super-squishy uniforms so no one gets hurt (Like those silly sumo wrestling costumes). And we can have them stop running or jumping too. We don’t want any sprained ankles or torn ligaments.

These new rules will make it WAY better, because then ANYONE can play football. Ooooh – wouldn’t that be fun to watch? It’d be like going to a pee-wee football game every week.

OR – we could just let them get paid the zillions of dollars they get for running around and doing what they love to do, knowing that there’s always SOME risk involved.

It won’t be football anymore, but I guess men aren’t supposed to be men anymore are they? They’re supposed to be metrosexuals- or whatever the heck the libs want them to be.

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- Silvertruth
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:43pm
  Love your post, and agree, however, let’s take it to the ‘logical conclusion’:
  
  Football is a gladitorial replacement game. Let’s get rid of the pads and helmets. (Ooooh, like Rugby!) Then, just so there’s some real risk involved, let’s dump the ‘blocking’ and allow full contact, anything goes way of taking care of your assigned target or zone. We could up the fun with “Melee Weapon Wednesdays” giving the front lines brass knuckles and saps. Finish it off with “Audience Participation Saturdays” where a few random audience members in the cheap seats are given bows and arrows to shoot at their respective enemy teams during the plays. It you’re too squimish on that, just tip the arrows with 1lb rubber heads, same effect, less deadly! Bump the rosters up by a factor of five and that will spread out the wealth. You’ll put a dent in unemployment as all those doctors put out of business by Obamacare can then go to work for the NFL, plus more players on the team! Sounds fun doesn’t it? Anyone else all for it?
  
  Seriously, Football is a brutal sport, trying to make it ‘safer’ is like trying to not make water wet.
  
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- Micmac
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:20am
  You forgot toe shoes
  
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spfoam1
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:53pm
If they are going to do this, why not just limit all plays to a 15 yard maximum, or make players wear a short rope betwen their ankles so they can’t run fast enough to injure themselves in a collision?

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Hythloday
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:53pm
At least it’s consistent with the current overall trajectory for America…”You know, if people were never born, there success rate of never being hurt psychologically, mentally, physically, metaphorically, clandestinely, accidentally, figuratively, photogenically, spiritually, purposely, hypothetically, adverbilly, or in this case, NFLLY, goes to 100%. No humans = Safe and secure humans. Cheers!

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Jeanne2010
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:52pm
Rush predicted this almost a year ago!!!

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- Paool
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:14pm
  The Golden EIB Mic is actually a tool for seeing into the future blessed by a magic shaman from the Stop&Go on 2nd and Main.
  
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- Rodeoamy
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Wussification!!
  
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MrButcher
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:52pm
Give ‘em bread and games….

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- 702TruthSeeker
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:10am
  ouch my balls (idiocracy reference)
  
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banjarmon
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:49pm
Make the game 3 minutes long with NO time outs!!!!

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:26pm
  Gave up on all sports when the slave trade began and they killed the hometown hero.
  
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conservativecollegekid
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:48pm
NO. This is ridiculous, tell the liberals to shove their stupid ideas and go back to stopping the rise of the sea levels.

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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Their Science on sea level rise was halted by a Pentium 90 decimal error, levels were miscalculated.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:24am
  Conservative- what college do you go to? Is it N.C. state like your avatar says? Just wondering because I’m in college as well and I feel like this site has a lot of older folks. Maybe I’m wrong.
  
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starman70
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:48pm
Before long, they will change the rules to FLAG FOOTBALL. No blocking, no tackling just grab the flag on the runners behind.

WON’T THAT BE THRILLING?

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- Popp40
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:55pm
  They can’t have flags….someone might break a finger when they go to grab the flag….
  
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- Go Glenn
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:04pm
  or make it like basketball with fouls for contact.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:57pm
  Very close!!! I think it will be called F*AG football!!!
  
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natebub
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:48pm
Leave the game alone,,,,,I hate to say it but there are risks in everything we do from the time we get up till the time we go to bed. Progressives must be infiltrating the NFL now.

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- jeezpeeps
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:18pm
  If they would be sure that Bob Costas was gone that would be one leff flamboyant leftist gone so there would be less complaining about stuff being so “physical”. Football is what it is… it is rough and tumble… people who are the greatest athletes in the world get paid handsomely to play. The Garbage Collection Technician on your local truck risks his life when he’s working too. Any blue collar folks do basically. Stop wussifieing America. Americans work hard… let them play hard as well.
  
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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:19pm
  Progressives have been infiltrating the NFL for years now. They are in all areas of life anymore and they don’t even try to hide it anymore.
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:13pm
  NATE, they are!
  
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pap pap
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:46pm
Why don’t they just play flag football. See what kind of fan base that gets you God L (spelled wrong on purpose)

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- indy1
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:15pm
  Why don’t we leave it for the Democrats to outlaw football? I”m sure they’ll find a lib judge to do it.
  
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Paool
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:45pm
Stop screwing around with my Football, dang-it

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ltcwilly
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:45pm
The wussification of the NFL.

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- Durtypoon
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Remove the football and use a balloon – and while we’re at it why not have em wear tin-foil hats and bra’s – Yeah that’ll be entertaining. Instead of tackling they can stand around and compliment eachother as the other team tries to score. We’ll call it “Sarcastiball”
  
  -Stan Marsh.
  
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- Durtypoon
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:14pm
  errrr Randy Marsh, dangit.
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:55pm
  lets do kick off every other play
  
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- Ir0nM4n
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:03pm
  When I read this I immediately thought of the South Park episode that DURTYPOON referenced.
  
  http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e08-sarcastaball
  
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GJPinks
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:44pm
Let’s put them all in those padded blowup Sumo outfits. No one will be allowed to run more than 4 feet with the ball and replace tackle with either touch or flags…
better yet, the team will change each game by randomly using fans as the players and all plays will be called by a majority of the crowd. Also, halt this horrible score keeping. Everyone wins..
Plus all team mascots must be unicorns.

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- armyofnibiru
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:32pm
  why not let the kicker kick off the recievers head.
  
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lel2007
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:43pm
Outlaw helmets & shoulder pads, there’ll be no more violent collisions.

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- Go Glenn
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:10pm
  Now you have it. More “protection” means more risk taking.
  
  If they had to play in only shorts and shoes with no cleets, they would be more careful.
  
  Or we could just cut the risk out and then cut their salaries to match that of a UPS driver. Hey why pay when the risk is low?
  
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Uncurable wound
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:43pm
Foolsball!

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DimmuBorgir
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:42pm
It seems at the time i voted, 40% of us don’t watch football.

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Balrog28
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:42pm
I think I agree with what Joe Biden said on this – “this idea can be summed up in 3 words ==> Insane in the membrane!”

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love the kids
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:41pm
It would be like eliminating guns from the military to prevent injuries.

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dflocks80
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:40pm
This could be exciting. I’d rather see a team try and convert a 4th and 15 to retain possession then go for an oft-failed onside kick.

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ricckky
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:39pm
Why should a rule change just because a few wackos want this–This is setting a very bad precedent—Hell–who cares–America is gone anyway— it has been taken over by uninformed citizens, progressives and down right stupid people!!!!–Greece, here we come to join you–I here –now–you want to be a communist country—So does America—when can we join you?—We don’t want to work any longer–you too?

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IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:38pm
If they want to get stupid why don’t they just do what the XFL did. Put the ball at the 50 and let the fastest guy from each team race for it. Why not, that’s just as stupid.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:03am
  I actually found the XFL a fun sideshow that really showed the contrast with how utterly over-regulated (rule wise, not government wise) traditional football is, and remains.
  
  Plus, the XFL had stripper cheerleaders. You’ve got to admire the brazenness of that move.
  
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cessna152
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:38pm
Why not simply get rid of tackling? Wait how about getting rid of touching the other team? Wait, how about getting rid of scoring because it could incite violence from the losing team and their fans? My goodness…there will be nothing left to watch on TV. Guess it’s back to spending time with God and family

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- Popp40
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:49pm
  Plus, keeping score may make the losing team feel bad so they should just do away with scoring and just give everyone a trophy….then all the players can say they are winners and all the fans can say they are champions….just think of the money Sports Illustrated will make by having a video of all the teams being champions.
  
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- Jamesoflinhood
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Ha! My thoughts exactly.
  
  I mean, sure, I’m all for player safety, but this is the NFL. This kinda stuff comes with the territory. I’m pretty sure that these athletes know the risks when they sign their million dollar contracts.
  
  Besides, the League has been making much more sane changes and improvements to help reduce player injuries (Like better helmets and rule changes). Although I’m not exactly excited about their rule change moving the kickoff spot to the 35, I can understand the logic behind it and hey, at least it’s still a kickoff.
  
  Also, career ending injuries can happen anywhere on the field. If the NFL is going to go insane about injury prevention, they’ll have to ban physical contact altogether and change their name to the National Flag Football League. Jeez.
  
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- tunnelboy
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:16pm
  lmao
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:30pm
  @popp
  you okay with that for presidential elections too? everybody gets a trophy? No more crybabies?
  
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gyro
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:36pm
Who cares canadian football is beter to watch

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- Paool
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:46pm
  Get off my internets. NOW!
  
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- Force2bewreckin
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:47pm
  hahahahahahah
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:29pm
  “Who cares canadian football is beter to watch”
  
  Not to be confused with homosexual porn, although the similarities are extensive.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:50pm
  Who watches Canadian Football besides serious gambling addicts and parents of players that couldn’t get drafted into the NFL?
  
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:36pm
Really, they just need all pink uniforms, the rainbow coalition doing a nice dance on the sideline, and do the actual “sport” at mock 1/2 speed. And add more union, turn up the union to 11.
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:00pm
  they should be a real man and play without a cup
  
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