Proposed 2017 Rules Changes

[ZHerd]

Why is everyone so pissed about rule changes all of a sudden. 1) they do this kind of thing every year. 2) football is rule crazy, enforcement crazy, structure crazy. It's a command and control sport. Football isn't football without stupid rules and stupid rule changes.

The problem is two fold: 1) that the rules are continually increasing (I doubt just changing), and 2) that they are stupid. "Control" can get out of hand, to the place where they are replacing something with something worse. Imo #2&3 are "something worse." People get hurt biking, surfing, and tilling their gardens. That doesn't mean those things need more control. They are things with known associated risks that people are unfazed by and enjoy. I wish the committee would take a few years off.

[HerdBot]

Maybe the "rules committee" can pass some sort of rule that makes it immensely harder to pass rules. It would be the best committee ever

Or for every rule they make, they have to remove 2 old rules

[1993bison]

People trying to justify there position in the sport and come up with stupid things that do not add anything to the game other than to say they did something.

Justify their existence. Just like many government positions.

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[1993bison]

Maybe the "rules committee" can pass some sort of rule that makes it immensely harder to pass rules. It would be the best committee ever

Yeah ok
That would be like politicians passing term limits.

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[barnwintersportsengelstad]

Two main factors to increased game time is Instant Replay and TV timeouts. Both created and mandated by the media. Now they want to shorten the game so it fits into their time slots. Maybe they should start by eliminating those. Also the NFL seems to manage timeouts to finish the games on time.

Absolutely, instant replay and TV timeouts is were the extra time is consumed.