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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: What makes exciting football?
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 21:06:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 21:06:38 1985
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> A wider field might open up the
> productivity of running offenses.  With the excellent speed of
> modern linebackers, sweeps seem to be a thing of the past.  Since
> modern atheletes are faster and bigger than the people who
> originally started the game, they should be playing on a bigger
> field.  Given the increasing range of placekickers, it might be
> worthwhile to make it longer, too.  

  The major problem with this idea (although in principle I agree) is that
many stadiums would have to undergo major (read: expensive) modifications
to accomodate a bigger field. There may even be some cases where it would
be impossible (read: structurally unsound) to make such modifications.
A nice idea, though...

--Greg
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