The New Kickoff Rule Sucks! (watching, stadium, game, NFL)
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The football fan in me hates the rule. So boring now. The Steelers fan in me likes the rule. They always have poor coverage and usually not very good return men.
I dont like the new rule either----I suppose later in the season when it gets colder and the ball gets harder there will be more returns.
Goodell said on the pregame that the rule probably would be reviewed after the season-------yet if we remember they kicked from the 35 until maybe what 8-10 years ago.
Did they forget why they moved it back to the 30-yard-line in the first place?
Seriously, WTF was the point of moving back up to the 35?
Think about this: until 1974 the kickoffs were conducted at the 40 (!) yard line. It's incredible and instructional to see just how much better the athletes are today in the NFL. It's also, therefore, a clumsy argument to compare, for example, the Green Bay Packers of 1967 to Baltimore Ravens of 2000. The latter would have blown the former off the field.
You have kickers today, such as Sebastian Janikowski, Joe Nedney and Mike Vanderjagt would have been linebackers or even offensive lineman in the 60s. These guys can reliably drill it through the end zone on kickoffs from the 30 today, and the average field goal percentage today is higher than a free throw in basketball. If the trends continue, you are probably looking at kickoffs being moved to the 25 yard line in future NFL seasons.
When evaluating a new rule, its always best to make a final conclusion after seeing its application in just one game.
"One game?" Like this is something brand-new. Some of us are old enough to remember why the kickoff spot got moved from the 35 yard line to the 30 yard line in the first place.
If they're going to keep this rule, they should adopt the CFL rule where the kicking team receives a point if the receiving team downs it in the end zone. That will at least add some intrigue to this deliberately touchback-inducing rule.
I'm 44 years old. I'm just getting a kick out of seeing everyone bent out of shape over this.
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