Posts Tagged ‘nfl rulebook’

Some Of The Proposed NFL Rules Changes Not Getting A Lot Of Press

Monday, February 25th, 2008

With the NFL’s scouting combine in Indianapolis (which we’ve already established is an awesome city), there’s only so much coverage one can digest of the league’s competition committee meetings, which are transpiring at the same time. The big proposal getting the attention is one that would allow defensive players to be wired for sound, much like the quarterbacks were allowed to be this past season.

However, this is only one of the rules revisions that have been suggested for the 2008 season. There are a slew of other rules packages being considered for implementation. Some of the other suggested changes brought to the committee include:

- Changing the name of the 2-minute warning to “The Joe Gibbs Memorial Game Mismanagement Zone.”

- A ball carrier’s forward progress would be considered stopped if the defender in contact with him has had a felony arrest since 2004.

- Defensive face masks would be legal if the offending player can be heard screaming, “Fuck yo mama,” or any interpretable derivative therein.

- Quarterbacks would be allowed to ground the ball inside the tackle box if it can be determined that his uniform has a distinct stain of urine.

- Wide receivers’ pushing off to be called more scrupulously, unless said wide receiver’s first name rhymes with “Craphonzo.”

- Offensive players would be forbidden to rape within 72 hours of kickoff. For defensive players, however, it would be 36 hours.

- Referee’s signal for “Delay of game” to be changed to vigorous underhanded motion at belt-buckle level.

These are just the ones we’ve heard about. If you know of any others, please pass them along in the comments.

Sudden Death: Best Recourse For Old People Inner-City Orphans NFL Overtime Games

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007


I fucking love the NFL’s overtime format. It’s rigid and unforgiving, like my cock. It also rocks your face, but maybe you just don’t know it yet, maybe because you’re too busy thinking about the homeless. You’re always thinking about the gaddamned homeless; can’t you see that THEY WANT TO BE POOR!?!?

Some of you assholes act like winning the coin flip wins the game. Not fucking so, though I’d say if you can’t correctly identify an outcome that has a 50 percent chance of happening, your ineptitude has no place in mock combat.

Anyway, even if you’re in OT and you lose the toss, you still kick off and have a chance to pin the other team deep. You can still stop your opponents on defense. And even if you fuck that up, they still can block the candy-assed 27-yard field goal attempt that will win the game.

“But it would be MORE FAIR if both teams got the ball,” you would mutter through your vagigi as you hang your Che Guevara out the window of your studio apartment to air dry.

Yeah, so those ten or twelve possessions your team had in regulation, wasn’t that fair? What about not banishing the special teams units to the sideline to reprise the same pivotal role they played during regulation. Wouldn’t that be fair?

Some of you are just in love with the Gay Circus Overtime they use in the college game, because each team gets a turn on the top AND the bottom. We saw a gay circus at the start of the Super Bowl, and most of us can safely agree what a colossal failure that was.

Your views and improvements for OT are welcome in the comments.