How about changing this: Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter 18h18 hours ago NFL fined Cam Heyward exactly $5,787 for displaying personal message on his eye black, even if it was a tribute to his father, “Iron Head”. NFL just doesn't get it...like when Johnny Unitas died and they wouldn't let Peyton Manning wear black high tops to honor him...morons
Jay @RedskinsCult 19h19 hours ago @CamHeyward This is the only thing the NFL would have allowed... pic.twitter.com/qdYUPWkdVT
Nice thread! Add: Digital measurements for first down distance and centralized replay hub for all reviews (refs on the field should have ZERO control over replay judgement). Change: Change the automatic first down at the spot of the foul for PI to a maximum yard situation (ie 20 yards max) unless in the end zone. Delete: First downs for LOS penalties like offsides, false start, delay of game or encroachment. Give them the 5 yards, but move the chains as well.
Add - Make any and all plays challenge-able. (I guess this is more of a change, than anything else) Delete - The "completing the process of the catch" nonsense. Phrases like "The receiver must take two steps and then complete a move common to the game" have no business in an NFL rule-book and only serve to unnecessarily over-complicate and "subjectify" something that should be simple and objective. It's simple - if the receiver takes two steps with possession, it's a catch. Change - The absurdly strict interpretation commonly adopted by NFL referees of BOTH PI/defensive holding as well as roughing the passer rules.
TD should be able to be measured with some kind of laser device too. I think we have enough technology to take the refs out of the equation on that one.
Add: superceding rule over all the other rules in the category - if it looks like a catch it's a catch, period. Change: kickoff from the 30 but have everybody but the kicker and 2 gunners and 2 returners line up at somewhere between the 40's depending on how the mechanics all workout so they'll be in contact at the snap, have the 2 gunners line up with the kicker at the 30, put the return back in KO return but without all the bodies hurtling towards each other at the start. Delete: any process in which either team has control of common game equipment, e.g. the balls, at any point before the game. Game equipment that the players do not wear should never be in the custody of anybody but the officials.
There's no choice here. How are you going to regulate what players can wear if you start making exceptions? Think about all the TD celebrations that happen already and none of them are strictly marketing related the way player ensemble choices would be.
Heyward honoring his dead father by putting his nickname on his lamplac isn't going to change Nfl history
You can punch your gf in the face knock her out and drag her out of an elevator, or throw your gf on a bed of guns or beat your 4 year old son with a switch but you can't wear black hightops to honor the late Johnny Unitas, what a fuckin' joke...
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter 4h4 hours ago To honor his late father, Cam Heyward wrote "IRON HEAD" on his eye black for second consecutive week, meaning he now faces an $11,567 fine. Nothing to better to worry about...huh...NFL?
There should be a committee of "reasonable" people. You can present your case for breaking the uniform rule, honoring someone who passed, showing support to a cause near and dear to you. They decide if you are good to go and if they say no then the fine doubles.
