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make a new rule. (Or change an old one.)

I made mine it the extra point thread.

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I'd make the refs throw flags when the Seahawks commit pass interference.

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Make that yellow rocks and I'll vote for it.

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If I were Roger Goddell, I would fire myself.

THE END

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Adopt a college-style overtime system

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1) Make all refs full time employees. During the offseason they would attend classes and practice game calling under simulated game conditions. Demand they establish guidelines for recognizing penalties and attempt to minimize different standards for things like pass interference and holding from game to game. Test and evaluate refs and correct or remove refs that don't meet league minimums.

2) Change playoff seeding to give home field advantage to the team with the best regular season record.

3) Change overtime to an entire quarter.

4) Remove "piped in" sound. Real crowd noise is encouraged but no fake noise.

5) Standardize playing fields, including but not limited to, length of grass, amount of watering allowed 24 hours prior to game time. And impose stiff fines upon organizations that violate those standards, up to loss of draft picks for repeat offenders.

6) Hire girls to carry placards, as in boxing matches between rounds, back and forth across the field, during each time out, end of quarter and (if we can fit it in) change of possession.

Just off the top of my head....

Not that I've given it much thought.

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If I were Goodell the first thing I would do is step down and agree to be flogged in public at half time in every stadium around the league. Then I would give the Saints 3 first round draft picks to make up for the overreaction during bounty gate. Then I would announce that I have awarded the city of New Orleans permanent home of the Super Bowl.

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Presuming that we're not talking about things like public apologies for Bountygate or whatever....

I would reduce the penalty for pass interference to 15 yards and automatic first down instead of the spot foul. It is too easy to throw up a jump ball and hope for a PI with it being called so often these days. At the same time I would also strictly enforce PI rules. If it is a pass interference during the regular season, then it should also be so in the playoffs. And none of this crap where the "physical" defenses get away with PI. The Seahawks, Patriots, 49ers and a couple other teams have a clear advantage because they won't call it on them. Enforce the rules equally for all teams please.

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And you call me roger godel again and I'm hunting you down!

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Every time....

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I would eliminate the 'conclusive evidence' part of instant replay, but specifically for over-ruling. How many times do we hear, "It might be have been called a fumble, but there is not enough to overturn it"?
Who cares what the call on the field is? Isn't that the point of reviewing it?
Review everything objectively, without the bias of the on the field call.

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Lets really fix some things... level the entire playing field... Make the game about the game and not tertiary conditions that are controllable.

Environment:
1. Effective immediately crowd noise rules will be enforced once again.

2. All grass fields will be converted to turf.

3. Violations of the Leagues PED rule call for immediate 16 game suspension with no pay. Head coach gets 4 game suspension. Period.

4. Instant Replay is no longer conducted by the referee on the field. Head office does it, in NY, by a Panel of 7.. Most votes is the decision.

Game Play:
1. Keuchly Rule - If the receiver does not have the ball, you can not tackle him in the endzone.

2. QBs can get hit once again...

3. No more Over Time. get it done in regulation or its a tie.

4. ALL playoff games are held on a neutral field that is owned by one of the play off teams... E.g. Denver vs New England would have been in New Orleans and New Orleans vs Seattle would have been in San Francisco.

CBA:
1. Goodell is no longer the appellate for any Goodell decisions.

Extras:
1. No more Pro bowl - Each year the Pro Bowl players will go to a different rotational stadium (all 32) and meet the fans, for pictures, autographs, and bromance.



Interesting tid-bit I just realized. Correct me if I am wrong but the New Orleans Saints were the only dome team that made the playoffs.

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On a serious note, I would change the ref system. Have a group of people in a room with a set of televisions recorded by cameras call the penalties.

And I would also make everything challengeable. There are bad calls, we are humans, we should be able to fix something that we messed up.


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The Colts are dome team, they made the playoffs.

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Lucas Oil isn't really a dome, it's a retractable roof that they leave open most of the time.

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You might want to look tat up again.... Not the playoff part.

Lucas Oil Stadium
http://cdn.archinect.net/images/615x...154thsq8or.jpg


Here it is with the roof open against the packers
http://prod.static.colts.clubs.nfl.c...il_Stadium.jpg

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http://www.iamwickless.com/wp-conten...il-Stadium.jpg

And here it is closed.

It was open most of the season, but it was closed for the playoff game.

It's a team labeling quandary.

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I wish we had a retractable roof stadium. don't get me wrong the Superdome is great and with all the renovations is nice as just about any other stadium in the league. But open air and sunlight on a Sunday noon game would be pretty fantastic.

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go back to the old overtime system. full qrts play till you win. enough of this pansy crap this aint soccer. if the stars are tired and beat up you play the bench. if it is that good of a match up then the deeper TEAM wins

let the defensive secondary play ball. enough of the points for ratings crap

de-pansify the league. players turn down life time insurance then so be it.

i will stop here at snot bubbles are a good thing

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I tyhink the best idea is to make the referees full time employees. Hire young athletic people, train them continuously and make them absolute experts on exactly how to enforce every aspect of every rule. Evaluate them relentlessly. Make them the best of any league. (Ya bastiges)

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If i was roger goodell, i throw myself from the top of the falcons stadium

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Expand the draft a round

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I like most of what you said but I like the home field advantage aspect of the playoffs and I like being in the dome and making as much noise as possible.
GREAT idea about the instant replays if they could manage to not slow the game down too much.
I also like overtime, it just adds excitement. I would like to see another format though. I don't like sudden death.
I agree about the player suspensions with PEDs. I think its a little harsh to suspend the coach though if it is only one player. Now if you have 3 or 4 players that are caught like in Seattle, that is not just one rogue player acting on his own, that is a team culture and is something that is being encouraged or swept under the rug and the head coach should absolutely be held accountable. In this case I think a year suspension and loss of draft picks for the head coach and team are warranted.

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I would make it a finable offense against any officiating crew evertime they pick up a flag thrown against Luke Kuechly.

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Why should a team be limited to how many challenges they make if the challenge is up held? If you challenge and win you get to keep all of your challenges. If you're out of time outs you can still challenge but if you lose it's a delay of game.

If you win three challenges in a game the HC gets to slap the **** out the head referee.

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I MIGHT consider changing the Super Bowl to Saturday. No work in the morning (although I work Saturday nights, but I am thinking of the majority) so people can party even harder and I bet ratings would increase.

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If I were Godhell I would castrate myself and send my goodies to Sean Payton.

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far too logical to move it-
-that would shorten the longest two weeks in sports by a day
-help out immensely with travel plans (commuters still fly Monday am)
-shift the entire game to primetime in the east, and more of it in pt in the other time zones = more commercial $
-improve productivity in almost every business in America Monday morning

The first SB's kicked off at 1:00 eastern. Now it is an all day commerce-based holiday as financially impactful as x-mas, Valentine's, or Mother's Day.

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Something definitely needs to be done about the officiating in the league. I have a feeling nothing will be done though because the NFL has begun to use them to shape the outcome of the games in favor of the teams that will benefit the NFL the most by generating the most revenue from a story line the media puts together about these matchups.

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Let's see, the offense is on it's own 1 yard line. The QB drops into his own end zone and lets a perfect spiral arc to an open WR at the 50 yard line. The DB is beat and he knows it. He tackles the WR who falls and misses what would have been a sure TD.

The flag flies and they march the penalty off and palce the ball 1st and 10 from your own 16.

Yeah, no screaming will occur here. It lets the defense profit from a penalty. I believe PI in the end zone should be a TD. The defense shouldn't profit from a penalty. PI in the field of play = spot of foul, in the end zone should be a TD!

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The Colts also are a "Dome" team or are they? If the roof opens, is it a dome?

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Because 5minutes of commercials is more valuable than 2 more challenges.

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The entire concept of a challenge is idiotic.
How about they get it right the first time?
but since they don't, I can challenge it, because literally the game, my season, the playoffs, or my career is in the balance
but, it has to be conclusive, and I can't do it more than twice

Put 3 guys in a room with 15 tv's, review anything that's close, and get rid of challenges completely

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So if the commissioners job is to do what's best for the game, why doesn't he step down?

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Money....... He said what's best for the game, not what's not in his best interest.....