The NFL is one of the world’s most vicious sports right with rugby. To play football you need to be, physically and mentally healthy, disciplined and, motivated. Yet it has all these rules to protect their players from injury. What is this football or basketball? The NFL needs to take a look at their rulebook and take out some of their foolish rules. The first one being protecting the quarterback. What is this? Second one, taking kickoff away from the game? Unnecessary roughness. Wow players being fined for doing their jobs. The NFL should not make rules concerning player’s health. They play the game knowing what possible outcomes they might come upon.
“No defensive player who has an unrestricted path to the quarterback may hit him flagrantly in the area of the knee(s) or below when approaching in any direction.” Defensive players job is to make plays. It is in there blood to be hostile. Sacking the quarterback is one of the highest valued plays a defender can make is sacking the quarterback. But the NFL decides to make a rule so that they there are only certain ways you can bring him down. Quarterbacks are already take a large number of less hits than any other player on the offense do they really need the extra protection?
Football is the only team sport where you have more than just a “Defense” and an “Offense”. Football also has special teams that is a third of the game. Kickers use to have to kickoff from the thirty-yard line. This year the NFL changed that to the thirty-five yard line. Why? To protect players from serious injury. Who cares these players are getting paid to play the game and taking kickoff away from the game is not only making the NFL sound like a joke but also ruining some carriers. Players like Devin Hester who are dangerous return threats don’t come in to play on kick off return anymore. It’s making it harder for some kids to come out of college in the draft. The NFL has even said they want to remove kickoff from the game? What are they high? If something is not broken you do not fix it because otherwise you break it. Removing Kickoff from the game would mean taking a third of the game out. Why would they do this?
When asked to describe football in one word, words like “Aggressive, fierce, hard-hitting,” come up. Football is not considered a contact sport football is a collision sport. If players are suppose to hit each other then why are they getting find when they do so? Football is an all contact. In high school kids get the choice to choose from soccer and football. The boys who chose football chose it because love the contact and collision. Hitting a defensive receiver, how can somebody on offense be defensive? They need to just let the players play the game. If the NFL just keeps on making these outrageous rules it’s going to become a two-handed touch league in recent years.
The NFL needs to focus on more important issues. They are trying to change the game. The game does not need to be changed. They need to take this offseason and really look at their rulebook. There are a lot of rules that are questionable to fans and analyses experts. With no clear evidence to why it’s a rule some rules need to be removed. We do not want football to become an extinct sport, let the boys play.
http://www.nfl.com/rulebook/digestofrules
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7179062/ndamukong-suh-detroit-lions-appreciated-chance-talk-roger-goodell
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