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Five sports fixes that should occur immediately:
1 – Eliminate the extra point in football. Completely worthless play. The game is already long enough with
all the replays, why keep a play that is not interesting at all and has a 99
percent success rate? Seven points
for a TD, or you can take 6 points and go for two. Fixed.
Done. Next.
2 - Touchless icing in the NHL. The NHL is the only place that touch up icing still exists,
raising injury risk and just being completely needless.
3 – Install more instant replay
in baseball. No sport has more blown calls that can be clearly rectified by
replay. The games are already,
what, four hours? What’s another
ten minutes to get it right?
4 – Speed up, already. Speaking
of slow baseball games, keep the batter in the box and let’s have a pitch every
fifteen seconds, minimum. Rules to
speed up the game already exist.
Enforce them.
5 – Eliminate flopping in the NBA
by calling a technical foul for obvious flops. The NHL penalizes flopping, the NBA should follow suit. You should not have to fall down to
draw an offensive foul. These are
grown men, probably the best athletes on the planet, let them bang and get the
Miami Heat, I mean floppers, out of the game.
I just made the entire sports
world better in about six minutes.
Don’t you feel better?
1 comment:
I don't follow the NFL, but I fully support 1, 3, 4, and 5. As an extension to 5, I'd add a similar rule for soccer. Flopping and diving makes the World Cup difficult to watch every year. It's tough for a ref to gauge it in real time, but I would stay that FIFA should be able to hand out yellow cards and steep fines for diving within 24 hours of the game using video review. In the World Cup, if you get a yellow card in one game and another in a second game, you miss the next game. So players would be much more wary to get a yellow card by diving.
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