If You Were A Sports Commissioner, What Rule Would You Implement/Do Away With? Major Sports Only

[candycorn]

I don't know about implementation but I'd definitely do away with the time outs right before a field goal is kicked. If you want to call a time out before the formations are set, fine. Ice the kicker 3 times if you want. But once they are set, there should be no way to call a time out. It hasn't happened yet but one day a kicker is going to try to stop on the way to kicking the ball and rip his knee apart. Additionally, linemen are having needless collisions as a result.

So if you were a commish, what rule(s) would you want to implement or get rid of? College/Pro/etc... Major Sports only please

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I don't watch NBA.... but the "continuation" allowance would be something I got rid of

 

[Polishprince]

In boxing I'd get rid of the standing 8 count. When someone is knocked down, the opponent should be able to stand right over him to recommence the fight immediately. People are paying to see a fight, not the referee wiping off the man's gloves.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

There would be two in the NFL. HGH/Steroid ban and helmet to helmet contact.
I want football, not this powder puff queer ball they currently have.

 

[Canon Shooter]

NFL:

• No "fair catch". If you catch the ball, run the ball. If you don't want to get blasted because you caught the ball, let the ball go and pray that it makes it to the end zone.
• No "touchback". You're getting paid to play a fucking game. Catch the fucking ball and run with it. And, to ensure that return men don't just let the ball bounce through the end zone, assess a safety if the ball bounces in the end zone and exits the back of the end zone.
• No "taking a knee". The clock's going to be running one way or another, and the fans didn't pay ridiculous prices to watch you not play, so run a fucking play.
• No "in the grasp". If four defensive linemen are hanging on the quarterback, and they still can't bring his ass to the ground, and he can still get off a pass, let him do it. Don't blow the whistle until the quarterback's knee hits the ground.
• No "sliding". What the fuck is that? While it's widely regarded as a rule developed to protect the quarterback, it actually applies to anyone running with the ball (Rule 7, Section 2, Article 2(d), to wit: "An official shall declare the ball dead and the down ended: when a runner declares himself down by sliding feet first on the ground. The ball is dead the instant the runner touches the ground with anything other than his hands or his feet." Fuck that. Do away with that rule. Don't slide because, if you do, you're gonna' get blasted.

Change those rules and you'll have a more exciting game...

 

[Canon Shooter]

Baseball:

Get rid of the infield fly rule. It's stupid. If the infielder let's the ball drop he still needs to make a play. Make him...

 

[fncceo]

The 30-second Rule in Mens' Professional Curling has got to go!

Seriously!

 

[Polishprince]

Eliminate the Freebird Rule in Professional Wrestling. The opponents have a right to know which members are going to be appearing in an Australian tag match when they sign. Being able to switch the contestants at the last moment is unfair to the other team as well as the paying fans.

 

[Mr Natural]

In Baseball:

1. Extend the DH to the National League.

2. Do away with the Central Division and divide those teams between the East and West. During the regular season, the East plays teams only in the and like wise in the West. The playoffs are between the winners of the East and West.

3. Eliminate the foul lines past first and third bases. Any ball hit into the outfield is a fair ball.

 

[tyroneweaver]

 

[rightwinger]

I don't know about implementation but I'd definitely do away with the time outs right before a field goal is kicked. If you want to call a time out before the formations are set, fine. Ice the kicker 3 times if you want. But once they are set, there should be no way to call a time out. It hasn't happened yet but one day a kicker is going to try to stop on the way to kicking the ball and rip his knee apart. Additionally, linemen are having needless collisions as a result.

So if you were a commish, what rule(s) would you want to implement or get rid of? College/Pro/etc... Major Sports only please

Agree, I hate when they do that. It is petty and unfair.
Once they are set, there should be no timeouts

 

[rightwinger]

I would get rid of the new rule on replay review of pass interference. There is no consistency between calls.

I’d also change the rules on what makes a catch. The “you have to maintain possession while you hit the ground” makes no sense. On all other plays, play is over once you hit the ground and the ground can’t cause a fumble

 

[Dragonlady]

I would ban horse racing for two year olds colts and fillies. The old horse trainer who was my mentor as a child told me that sending a 2 year old thoroughbred to the track, was the equivalent of sending an 8 year old child to the salt mines to work. These animals are nowhere near their full growth, their bones are still growing and forming and their growth plates are open.

Other equestrian sports don't even break the horses to saddle until they're at least 3. No jumping until they're 4, and then not over 3 feet. No full training until age 5. Race horses are broken to saddle at 18 months, and by age two, they're carrying 100 lbs. of weight and pounding their growing bones on a hard race track. By age 5, when jumpers are starting full training, race horses are burned out and retired, or they're injured and retired.

Raising race horses is expensive. Feed, vet expenses, smithing all costing hundreds of dollars monthly. Breeders are always on the brink of financial disaster and need to dump off horses unlikely to be winners as soon as possible to cut their losses, but a sport in which the horses are injured or burned out and gone before they're fully grown is at best, inhumane, and at worst, highly abusive to the animals.

 

[candycorn]

I would ban horse racing for two year olds colts and fillies. The old horse trainer who was my mentor as a child told me that sending a 2 year old thoroughbred to the track, was the equivalent of sending an 8 year old child to the salt mines to work. These animals are nowhere near their full growth, their bones are still growing and forming and their growth plates are open.

Other equestrian sports don't even break the horses to saddle until they're at least 3. No jumping until they're 4, and then not over 3 feet. No full training until age 5. Race horses are broken to saddle at 18 months, and by age two, they're carrying 100 lbs. of weight and pounding their growing bones on a hard race track. By age 5, when jumpers are starting full training, race horses are burned out and retired, or they're injured and retired.

Raising race horses is expensive. Feed, vet expenses, smithing all costing hundreds of dollars monthly. Breeders are always on the brink of financial disaster and need to dump off horses unlikely to be winners as soon as possible to cut their losses, but a sport in which the horses are injured or burned out and gone before they're fully grown is at best, inhumane, and at worst, highly abusive to the animals.

As I recall seeing once; a horse’s total weight (plus the jockey) is supported on one foot during a race

 

[Rocko]

One foot inbounds should be all you need for it to count as a catch

 

[rightwinger]

One foot inbounds should be all you need for it to count as a catch

I like two, it makes for more acrobatic catches.

But if you have possession going out of bounds you shouldn’t have to maintain possession to the ground

 

[Rocko]

One foot inbounds should be all you need for it to count as a catch

I like two, it makes for more acrobatic catches.

But if you have possession going out of bounds you shouldn’t have to maintain possession to the ground

One makes for more scoring, which= more excitement

 

[rightwinger]

One foot inbounds should be all you need for it to count as a catch

I like two, it makes for more acrobatic catches.

But if you have possession going out of bounds you shouldn’t have to maintain possession to the ground

One makes for more scoring, which= more excitement

Too much easy scoring right now.
We need to bring more balance into the game.
More balance between the running and passing game and more balance between the offense and defense.

 

[22lcidw]

Baseball goes to two 15 team leagues playing each team in their own league an equal amount of times or close to it.

 

[candycorn]

I'd like to have a rule across all 4 major North American Sports (baseball has it right).

In Football and basketball, if the score is tied at the end of regulation; play a fifth quarter. If it is tied in Hockey, play a fourth period.

If it ends in a tie after the end of the quarter/period, then maybe have some augmented way of deciding who wins. The OT rules are silly and the reason for them is sillier still. In 2002, there were 25 overtime games in the NFL. That is the record for a single season according to CBS Sports.

Most ties in an NFL season? Most overtime games in an NFL season? 2018 approaching records

The NFL has seen an influx of overtime and ties this season

www.cbssports.com

That means that there were less than 2 a week. Some teams may have played none. Football (unlike Basketball and Hockey) has offensive and defensive specialists so a specific player will not be on the field at all times during that arduous 15 minute fifth quarter.