Yep, pretty lame. Safer no doubt but football is a tough sport. Question to ponder - what is more lame? The kickoff or the virtue signaling phrases in the end zone? One vote for the virtue signaling.
The NFL has to get rid of that ridiculous looking new Kickoff Rule. How can they make such a big and sweeping change so easily and quickly. It’s at least as dangerous as the “normal” kickoff, and looks like...
The league is doing what they can to make the game safer, I get that so no big deal. It does beat just taking the ball at the 20 or 30 and eliminating the onsides kick totally.
Hard to watch the new NFL kickoff. It’s wrong on every level. They should end it, immediately. Bad for the game of football!
How exciting was it towatch guys kick balls over the end zone for a touchback? My solution would have been for having no kickoff and just starting at the 20.
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Yep, pretty lame. Safer no doubt but football is a tough sport. Question to ponder - what is more lame? The kickoff or the virtue signaling phrases in the end zone? One vote for the virtue signaling.
Not sure what your "question to ponder" has to do with lameness...
But it is a darn shame that White conservative types can't produce enough boys who are tough enough and talented enough to play football at the college or pro level. If they could... we wouldn't have to put up with that "virtue signaling" that you find so troubling.
Yep, pretty lame. Safer no doubt but football is a tough sport. Question to ponder - what is more lame? The kickoff or the virtue signaling phrases in the end zone? One vote for the virtue signaling.
The virtue signaling. It’s been made worse with announcement of Puerto Rico’s biggest douche as the Super Bowl haftime act. How stunning and brave.
Yep, pretty lame. Safer no doubt but football is a tough sport. Question to ponder - what is more lame? The kickoff or the virtue signaling phrases in the end zone? One vote for the virtue signaling.
Not sure what your "question to ponder" has to do with lameness...
But it is a darn shame that White conservative types can't produce enough boys who are tough enough and talented enough to play football at the college or pro level. If they could... we wouldn't have to put up with that "virtue signaling" that you find so troubling.
lol
This guy who believes men can be women and who felt that Tyler Robinson was living the dream by shacking up with a pre-op trans oddball is trying to talk about manliness. 😝😛🥸
The purpose is to actually have something happen on a kickoff. With the old rules it has gotten to the point where people rarely try to return the kickoff.
The season before the change, only 21% of kickoffs were returned. Then last year it bumped up to 33%, and this year they added another 5 yards to the touchback position so more teams try to kick a returnable ball and in week 1 75% of kickoffs were returned.
the football kickoff has been obsolete in all forms of football since the 19th century.
In soccer, the kicking team merely takes posession of the ball, one player kicking it to another. some "kickoff."
In American football, the kicking team and receiving team are both mostly different players than usual. There is little at stake, only the receiving team's resulting field position, usually within a few yards, plus or minus of the 25.
The receiving team's outside shot at a big return or TD was the only thing justifying keeping it. But if you just line them up on the 25, they can get a big gain or TD from there too. Maybe it just seems more exciting if everyone is running around really fast, all the fat guys on the sidelines.