If You Were A Sports Commissioner, What Rule Would You Implement/Do Away With? Major Sports Only

[candycorn]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

 

[22lcidw]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

 

[candycorn]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I think this is reflected in the dwindling viewership. I don’t think TV ruined sports but I think TV has made the sports less enjoyable.

what is even more bizarre to me is that even the coverage is becoming problematic. Not the telecast which is what it is BUT the reporting is now based on fantasy stats more and more. Waiting for the scores is pain as we find out who the fifth highest rated QB happens to be.

But it’s never going back to like it used to be. I sort of like the wildcard MLB games during the day.

 

[Pogo]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Sports is the most honest thing television does, and it still lies.

 

[Pogo]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Disagree. That is strategy. What’s next? Deeming that they can’t run the play or shot clock down to 1 second?

It's a "strategy" in the same sense that intentional grounding is a "strategy". And you get penalized for that. As you should, because it's a wimp play.

 

[rightwinger]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I used to look forward to the Olympics and would watch as much as I could.
Now, I hardly care. Too many sports that don’t belong, too many pro athletes

 

[candycorn]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I used to look forward to the Olympics and would watch as much as I could.
Now, I hardly care. Too many sports that don’t belong, too many pro athletes

Loved the Olympics growing up. I used to get the Sports Illustrated special edition and study it prior to the games.

NBC for me does a terrible job with their clearly biased announcers and their adding drama where it wasn’t needed.

The professional athletes didn’t help.

The biggest culprit in the whole Olympic degradation is the IOC itself however. They should do it like the NFL does the SuperBowl. Rotate it to cities that clearly have the infrastructure and about once every 5th Olympic Games, Hand it off to a city that can RESPONSIBLY host it. What they have done is make corruption a way of life.

 

[candycorn]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Disagree. That is strategy. What’s next? Deeming that they can’t run the play or shot clock down to 1 second?

It's a "strategy" in the same sense that intentional grounding is a "strategy". And you get penalized for that. As you should, because it's a wimp play.

Do you think a coach draws up a play for IG? Therefore not a strategy.

Agree, it’s a wimp play.

 

[rightwinger]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I used to look forward to the Olympics and would watch as much as I could.
Now, I hardly care. Too many sports that don’t belong, too many pro athletes

Loved the Olympics growing up. I used to get the Sports Illustrated special edition and study it prior to the games.

NBC for me does a terrible job with their clearly biased announcers and their adding drama where it wasn’t needed.

The professional athletes didn’t help.

The biggest culprit in the whole Olympic degradation is the IOC itself however. They should do it like the NFL does the SuperBowl. Rotate it to cities that clearly have the infrastructure and about once every 5th Olympic Games, Hand it off to a city that can RESPONSIBLY host it. What they have done is make corruption a way of life.

I hate the Dream Team. Blowout games with players who really don’t care about the medal. Who wants to see Olympic Tennis with the same players you can see every week.

I used to care about Olympic boxing. Now I don’t even check to see who won.

I used to love Track and Field. But now all they cover is US Athletes

 

[candycorn]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I used to look forward to the Olympics and would watch as much as I could.
Now, I hardly care. Too many sports that don’t belong, too many pro athletes

Loved the Olympics growing up. I used to get the Sports Illustrated special edition and study it prior to the games.

NBC for me does a terrible job with their clearly biased announcers and their adding drama where it wasn’t needed.

The professional athletes didn’t help.

The biggest culprit in the whole Olympic degradation is the IOC itself however. They should do it like the NFL does the SuperBowl. Rotate it to cities that clearly have the infrastructure and about once every 5th Olympic Games, Hand it off to a city that can RESPONSIBLY host it. What they have done is make corruption a way of life.

I hate the Dream Team. Blowout games with players who really don’t care about the medal. Who wants to see Olympic Tennis with the same players you can see every week.

I used to care about Olympic boxing. Now I don’t even check to see who won.

I used to love Track and Field. But now all they cover is US Athletes

Precisely. Although T&F is probably the most boring sport I could imagine. Yep; maybe it’s that sports mean less as I get older but where the Olympics are concerned...I pretty much just watch the finals or the gold medal round.

 

[Polishprince]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I used to look forward to the Olympics and would watch as much as I could.
Now, I hardly care. Too many sports that don’t belong, too many pro athletes

Loved the Olympics growing up. I used to get the Sports Illustrated special edition and study it prior to the games.

NBC for me does a terrible job with their clearly biased announcers and their adding drama where it wasn’t needed.

The professional athletes didn’t help.

The biggest culprit in the whole Olympic degradation is the IOC itself however. They should do it like the NFL does the SuperBowl. Rotate it to cities that clearly have the infrastructure and about once every 5th Olympic Games, Hand it off to a city that can RESPONSIBLY host it. What they have done is make corruption a way of life.

I hate the Dream Team. Blowout games with players who really don’t care about the medal. Who wants to see Olympic Tennis with the same players you can see every week.

I used to care about Olympic boxing. Now I don’t even check to see who won.

I used to love Track and Field. But now all they cover is US Athletes

The problem with the olympics is that they don't have the sports people care about .

Where the stock car racing? bowling? pocket billiards? Professional style wrestling? MMA?

 

[AmericanGirl05]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I used to look forward to the Olympics and would watch as much as I could.
Now, I hardly care. Too many sports that don’t belong, too many pro athletes

I agree with that. Too many events. Too much hype. We don't have to test athletes at EVERY distance. The good stuff gets buried among all the fluff.

 

[Pogo]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Disagree. That is strategy. What’s next? Deeming that they can’t run the play or shot clock down to 1 second?

It's a "strategy" in the same sense that intentional grounding is a "strategy". And you get penalized for that. As you should, because it's a wimp play.

Do you think a coach draws up a play for IG? Therefore not a strategy.

Agree, it’s a wimp play.

A strategy needn't come from a coach. If a ball carrier chooses to dart to the left, that's a strategy. If a fielder chooses to fake and throw to third base, that's a strategy.

 

[Pogo]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I used to look forward to the Olympics and would watch as much as I could.
Now, I hardly care. Too many sports that don’t belong, too many pro athletes

Loved the Olympics growing up. I used to get the Sports Illustrated special edition and study it prior to the games.

NBC for me does a terrible job with their clearly biased announcers and their adding drama where it wasn’t needed.

The professional athletes didn’t help.

The biggest culprit in the whole Olympic degradation is the IOC itself however. They should do it like the NFL does the SuperBowl. Rotate it to cities that clearly have the infrastructure and about once every 5th Olympic Games, Hand it off to a city that can RESPONSIBLY host it. What they have done is make corruption a way of life.

And speaking of announcers who think the event is all about them, this reminds me --- as Supreme Commissioner of All Sport I would declare, among all of them --- any announcer or analyst, during, before or after the game, who comes to work in a business suit is banned for life. WTF is up with that. Looks like the BBC circa 1948,

 

[candycorn]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Disagree. That is strategy. What’s next? Deeming that they can’t run the play or shot clock down to 1 second?

It's a "strategy" in the same sense that intentional grounding is a "strategy". And you get penalized for that. As you should, because it's a wimp play.

Do you think a coach draws up a play for IG? Therefore not a strategy.

Agree, it’s a wimp play.

A strategy needn't come from a coach. If a ball carrier chooses to dart to the left, that's a strategy. If a fielder chooses to fake and throw to third base, that's a strategy.

That’s a technique.

 

[Pogo]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Disagree. That is strategy. What’s next? Deeming that they can’t run the play or shot clock down to 1 second?

It's a "strategy" in the same sense that intentional grounding is a "strategy". And you get penalized for that. As you should, because it's a wimp play.

Do you think a coach draws up a play for IG? Therefore not a strategy.

Agree, it’s a wimp play.

A strategy needn't come from a coach. If a ball carrier chooses to dart to the left, that's a strategy. If a fielder chooses to fake and throw to third base, that's a strategy.

That’s a technique.

No it ain't. A technique is a particular way to do the same thing. You can intentionally ground the ball because you know you'll lose big yardage on a sack - that's a strategy. If you do it while pretending your arm got hit and that's why the ball went to an empty field, that's technique. Technique is action, strategy is thought.

 

[22lcidw]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.

One of the beauties of baseball that makes it vastly superior to those goal-sports is that it's not tied to a clock.

Oh and speaking of the clock, any NFL team that's holding a lead and has the ball, you take a knee to run out the clock and you give up the ball AND put the time back on the clock for the other team. This taking a knee crapola is utter bullshit, always was. Play the damn game.

Television has ruined almost all sports.

Yep! Its like watching many of the movies on TV. Its been formatted for television and made much longer then it needs to be due to constant interruptions and commercials. They even run commercials during plays.

Ruined? No.

Injured? Yes.

So sports can be repaired? It is going to take a lot greed reducing. Imagine World Series games on weekday afternoons again? How about two and a half hour NFL games? I do not even watch much of the Olympics anymore. A reset is needed for all of the major sports. A reset is needed for watching programming on TV. In the 1960's an hour program had several minutes of ads and promos. Today it seems like a half hour of the same. And this is while paying for TV service like cable.

I think this is reflected in the dwindling viewership. I don’t think TV ruined sports but I think TV has made the sports less enjoyable.

what is even more bizarre to me is that even the coverage is becoming problematic. Not the telecast which is what it is BUT the reporting is now based on fantasy stats more and more. Waiting for the scores is pain as we find out who the fifth highest rated QB happens to be.

But it’s never going back to like it used to be. I sort of like the wildcard MLB games during the day.

Playoffs in baseball are here to stay. The one game wildcard playoff needs to be expanded and/or the playoffs changed a bit.

 

[Marion Morrison]

One foot inbounds should be all you need for it to count as a catch

I like two, it makes for more acrobatic catches.

But if you have possession going out of bounds you shouldn’t have to maintain possession to the ground

One makes for more scoring, which= more excitement

Too much easy scoring right now.
We need to bring more balance into the game.
More balance between the running and passing game and more balance between the offense and defense.

Idk man, they must have outlawed some kind of hitting. I've seen harder hits on a flag football field than today's NFL.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Idk right now, but it has to do with basketball. It's a great sport, but there's 1 thing I would change..

 

[rightwinger]

One foot inbounds should be all you need for it to count as a catch

I like two, it makes for more acrobatic catches.

But if you have possession going out of bounds you shouldn’t have to maintain possession to the ground

One makes for more scoring, which= more excitement

Too much easy scoring right now.
We need to bring more balance into the game.
More balance between the running and passing game and more balance between the offense and defense.

Idk man, they must have outlawed some kind of hitting. I've seen harder hits on a flag football field than today's NFL.

The worst thing they did was saying you can’t bump a receiver after five yards. Used to be you could bump him till the ball was in the air.

Turned receivers into prima donnas along with QBs