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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: rule changes
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 01:01:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 01:01:47 1983
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  Rule changes are always cleared through the NFL bureaucracy, and as such,
they are likely to be minor and long in coming. However, I strongly agree that
they should bring back the two-point conversion. This adds lots of excitement
to many college games, and I can think of many pro games I've seen that should
have been much more exciting with the two-point conversion. I don't favor too 
many radical rules changes, as they will hopelessly confuse the players, 
coaches, fans and even officials (most important of all!). Besides, football
is mostly a physical game. You can't "backgammon-ize" it too much without
changing the very nature of the game. Part of football's popularity in this
country is that it provides a relatively harmless outlet for the hostility
that *all* of us feel at one time or another. How many totally non-violent
people have you seen yell "Nail that mother! Knock him on his ass!" while 
watching a game? Cursing the refs is usually good for letting off a little 
steam too.
  Some minor but important rules changes (that have at least a snowball's
chance in hell of being passed) that *I* would like to see are:

1) Bring back the two-point conversion!

2) The USFL-style pass interference penalties. How many games I've seen
the &*$*@! Cowboys win on questionable 50-yard pass interference calls 
in the closing moments! (Substitute your own least-favorite team for
Cowboys and you will see what I mean). 

  Well, this is already long enough. I would love to see *serious* suggestions
for rules changes (a doubling cube? Come on!) posted here.

       Greg "Broncomaniac" Woods
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