Thread: Goodell considers idea to eliminate kickoffs

Hello everyone and welcome to the season opener for sarcastaball. Tonight we'll see two teams play very passive and very gently, it's the Chicago Kittens vs the Green Bay Babies. And at the seats we can see the man that started the NSF Rogder Badell.

Seriously no. Kick off are great I think the last years change was a really good thing as it certainly have decreased concussions etc etc but to remove it? No thanks.

Originally Posted by karst41

To all my good friends and brothers who love the game of Football.

Goddell has lost his F'king Mind.

The Opening Kick Off is "The start of the Game.
This is Tradition as Mom, Apple Pie, and a Saturday Night Date.

I urge you all to create a Petition of Revolt and send it to the team Owner and President.

This Game and the NFL was built by the paying fans.
Goddell has absolutely No Right to make this drastic change to the game.


Do Not Allow this to happen.

Regards from Atlanta

You still have opening kickoffs, and a kickoff at the 1/2. Its just after a TD that you would not have a kickoff; instead it would be a 4th and 15 at I think the 40, and they could choose to go for it, or punt.

injuries on kickoffs are down 40% since they made changes. Sorry you don't like that, but when your former employees are suing you b/c of the dangerous game, you have to do 2 things:
1) show you are making changes and show concern(he's doing that) and this has 2 effects)
a) the NFL does care about the safety of it's players
b) it prevents another lawsuit down the road for the players currently/in the future playing.
2) actually have less injuries, showing that the changes are working.

Anyone really think all these would be up for discussion if the NFL wasn't being sued w/the risk of losing billions?
Ya stupid, crazy Goodell is ruining the game, but his hand was forced w/the lawsuit.


As for his right to make drastic changes, should we go back to leather helmets, no face masks, a dropped forward pass being a turnover? Should all the games be played outside on real grass? Should we cut teams down to the original number; and pull the games back to the origianal amount? This idea that somehow this is the same game it was, even 20 years ago is absurd; and that is not all on Goodell.

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

You still have opening kickoffs, and a kickoff at the 1/2. Its just after a TD that you would not have a kickoff; instead it would be a 4th and 15 at I think the 40, and they could choose to go for it, or punt.

injuries on kickoffs are down 40% since they made changes. Sorry you don't like that, but when your former employees are suing you b/c of the dangerous game, you have to do 2 things:
1) show you are making changes and show concern(he's doing that) and this has 2 effects)
a) the NFL does care about the safety of it's players
b) it prevents another lawsuit down the road for the players currently/in the future playing.
2) actually have less injuries, showing that the changes are working.

Anyone really think all these would be up for discussion if the NFL wasn't being sued w/the risk of losing billions?
Ya stupid, crazy Goodell is ruining the game, but his hand was forced w/the lawsuit.


As for his right to make drastic changes, should we go back to leather helmets, no face masks, a dropped forward pass being a turnover? Should all the games be played outside on real grass? Should we cut teams down to the original number; and pull the games back to the origianal amount? This idea that somehow this is the same game it was, even 20 years ago is absurd; and that is not all on Goodell.

Just gotta stop your culture of suying everything that is possible..

No we should not go back to leather helmets etc. etc. and if they develop a new helmet that improves the safety of the players they should use it. But they have already changed the kick off rule, I just disagree to remove it completely. I find it hard to express myself but I mean they have crossed a line from where I can accepta rule change to improve players safety and then to this is bulls*** let's start wrap them in bubbleplast nexttime.