Move the XP spot back to the 2 yard line and require any PAT attempts to be made by the player who scored the TD. Also ban place kicking for FG's and require drop kicks.

You'd have offensive players throwing the ball downfield where the defense can't catch it. Where the ball hits the ground would be the spot of the fumble with your logic.

Make any pass that hits behind the LOS a live ball. So sick of these boring dump offs.

only if you also eliminate like 5 other rules

I'd take it in the opposite direction. When someone fumbles the ball, play is stopped. The football is then covered in grease, and dropped from the ceiling of the stadium to the spot of the fumble. Play resumes the moment the ball hits the ground, setting off a mass scramble. With the slippery ball bouncing around everywhere, there's sure to be some wacky shenanigans and preposterous tomfoolery.

Actually, for player safety reasons (people get hurt frequently in those pileups), they could just drop the ball into the top of the Price Is Right Plinko board and watch where it falls, the recovering team determined by the slots at the bottom. At each end of the board you can have a "returned for touchdown!!!!" slot that will set off confetti.

Football and basketball. No more time outs called from the sidelines. Player must call it. So damn stupid allowing coach's to stand next to the refs and call time out

coach's itt

Baseball- before each game, the coaches, players, and umps meet on the mound. They exchange greetings, discuss frivolties , and bid each other adieu. Then everyone goes home. No more baseball.

So what the **** does the NFL do with the catch rule next season?

Personally, I don't totally hate the general concept of the "surviving the ground" thing, I just think they have to get very very simple (=lenient) with what's considered "being a runner" and not in the process of catching the ball anymore. In the PIT/NE game, James was actively rolling over in an attempt to break the plane, he was a runner. With the Dez catch against GB a few years ago, he was reaching with one arm to try to get the ball over, he was a runner. If the ball is secure and there's any kind of voluntary movement going on other than pure momentum, the player is done making the catch. Period. Any loss of the ball afterwards is either a fumble (if it's in the field of play) or meaningless (if it's in the end zone, since it's already a TD by then).

This'll change some incompletes into fumbles on balls over the middle where a guy gets blown up after catching the ball and juuuust starting to turn upfield, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

NFL has to get rid of the "legal intentional grounding rule". Yesterday Ryan is being chased around in his own endzone and just casually throws in into the bench. Game would be 100x better if the QB had to take a sack or make a play. Wilson, Rodgers, Cam and Smith completely abuse this rule

In soccer, randomly twice per half a siren goes off and you can use your hands and tackle people like in American foot ball for 15 seconds. In fact all sports should have some iteration of this free scramble rule

Agree. Pisses me off every time when a QB half a second away from getting sacked casually throws the ball into the stands.

Also on that note, getting flagged for intentional grounding doesn't cost you anything above getting sacked. I'd like to see the penalty changed to 5 yards from the spot of the foul and loss of down (instead of just a spot foul + loss of down)

The penalty is a minimum of 10 yards FWIW (spot foul only if it's committed further upfield), so it is extra punishment on plays where it happens closer to the LOS.

They probably don't want to make it too harsh of a penalty for a call that can have a fairly high level of subjectiveness (both whether there was a receiver close enough and in some cases whether the QB was out of the pocket). Then again DPI is totally subjective and can result in a 50+yd penalty, so who knows.

LOL at thinking the NFL is going to make a rule change that subjects QBs to more hits.

in hockey, reduce the number of players on the ice per team from 6 to 5 if not 4... similar effect to making the ice surface much bigger which is not feasible economically... of course, the players association will hate the fewer players.

in football, give teams more timeouts for the last 5 minutes but make the timeouts only stop the clock till the next play is snapped. no huddling with coaches on sideline for those extra timeouts. and maybe take away 1 of the 3 existing type timeouts per half.

golf needs a bunch of rules changes but more amateurs and recreational players keeping handicaps and things. basically speed up recreational golf alot while keeping the sanctity of the handicap system.

soccer, revamp the offside rule so that it isn't such an issue when the passer and passee are within 30 yards of the net... i realize you need an offside rule so that players don't stay down by the opposing net the entire game.

Football, lineman pointing at the other team when there's movement before the snap is a 15 yard penalty.

Non-stupid idea:

In football, rather than the spotting of the ball being continuous, it is discrete at each yard line.

So if you don't gain the next yard line, the ball gets spotted at the prior yard line. Allows for way more effective video review of every first down, takes away a lot of the variance in spotting the ball, and should make it easier to tell where the ball should be spotted.

That's a pretty good idea imo. Only downside I can think of is having to suffer through more endzone fades as a result of not getting plays at inches to goal.

Genius

I'd sooner have this apply to recievers fake throwing a flag when they think they've been interfered with.

But yea. If the guy moves just hit him and move on.

Instead of field goal kickers, they use golfers instead. Has to put it inside of a 10 foot circle in the end zone.

Make it so in the NFL, all reviews are conducted the same way - coaches must challenge. No automatic scoring play review, no "last two minutes booth review", no turnover review.

Corollary: make it so coaches have unlimited challenges until they are wrong twice.