More Player safety rules.. Killing the game

[MaineManPanther]

Blah blah blah. These guys get paid millions of dollars a year and they got great health coverage. Most NFL fans work hard for a few bucks an hour just buy tickets just to see them play football and not a pu$$y contest. I'm for protecting players from head injuries and all. But the NFL is taking way to far and turnnign the NFL into a Pu$$y league. The more rules they change the more NFL loses fans. The more fans they loss the more money they loss. Injuries are of the game. It's just a like a factory worker going to work in a factory. The factory has rules to keep workers safe. But workers getting hurt is still a big risk no matter how many rules there are. These guys are rich. Getting injuried are retiring is not going to hurt their wallets any less.

What fans are they losing? The NFL is getting more fans then ever. NFL still has highlight reels of huge hits every year. Unless all games start having constant instances like the Blt-NE game of last year, no one will notice that much. People act like these hit occur frequently in every game

[SorthNarolina]

Blah blah blah. These guys get paid millions of dollars a year and they got great health coverage. Most NFL fans work hard for a few bucks an hour just buy tickets just to see them play football and not a pu$$y contest. I'm for protecting players from head injuries and all. But the NFL is taking way to far and turnnign the NFL into a Pu$$y league. The more rules they change the more NFL loses fans. The more fans they loss the more money they loss. Injuries are of the game. It's just a like a factory worker going to work in a factory. The factory has rules to keep workers safe. But workers getting hurt is still a big risk no matter how many rules there are. These guys are rich. Getting injuried are retiring is not going to hurt their wallets any less.

being rich should never have any bearing on rules set up player's safety. That's such an ignorant thing to say. Should the highest paid workers at the factory be held to looser saftey rules because they're making more than the assembly line guys?

People need to realize that while these men are playing a kids game and making millions of dollars that they are PEOPLE first. Being rich doesn't make you a second class citizen.

It's true that the game is shifting more and more away from the violence. It's a game pretty much based on hitting a guy until he's completley demoralized.

[88 Bronco]

i was kind of hoping they'd wear these...

but hey, what do i know? Goodell can die for all i care. and i mean that too. no regrets on that statement. the NFL has lost all meaning to the word "football." it's like telling hockey players they can't do body checks anymore. it's a contact sport. people are going to get hurt regardless. yeah, protect the head, but what good is a head when the rest of the body is paralyzed? i mean come on...

You just like cock fights

[mick eye]

The new rules are exactly why we need to become more of a threat in the passing game. I love our old school offense that grinds everyone down but we need to open up the offense a little.

[AnalyzeThIs#28]

I don't mind a new helmet to helmet contact rule, that's not a frequent hit in the nfl anymore anyways. This new rule chance might have something to do with the Panthers vs. Bucs game this year when Dante Wesley put a mean hit on the kick returner, almost lethal really.

[PantherBrew]

Wow, what a bunch of drama queens.

It's not going to change the game much.

I personally like the idea of protecting receivers. I don't want someone taking a free shot and unloading on Smitty and ending our season.

[ThPantherFan]

Wow, what a bunch of drama queens.

It's not going to change the game much.

I personally like the idea of protecting receivers. I don't want someone taking a free shot and unloading on Smitty and ending our season.

You've never played real football. If you didn't come out of the game with at least one broken bone, you weren't giving it your all, back in my day. We played real football!

[thunderraiden]

I don't hate the rule change because of the loss of gore, i just hate it because it's basically a "let the WR catch the ball before you hit them" rule that is next to impossible to enforce without half the penalties being dished out as being phantom.

[Snake]

At some point they will totally fug up the game of football and fans will stop watching. Then they will go the NASCAR route. What I don't understand is why cut blocking is not gone. That ends a hell of a lot more careers then helmet to helmet contact. The owners and gooddumb only care about money and that's the only reason they make dumbass rules for the qbs and the wrs.

[DaCityKats]

I find it funny that people whine and cry about the added rules while seemingly not caring one ounce for the players and their families with what have been deemed to be be too serious hits. It's as if you view them as toys for your own amusement. Watch the NFL, then flip over to MMA to satisfy your need for brutalization. The NFL adds these rules for a reason.

That said, I'm going to UFC 114 in Vegas in May. Rashad versus Rampage!

Now...I'll wait while dozens of you quote this, argue in favor of the old NFL days, and insult me. :wink:

its football.some times you have to run through people to make play.

[SorthNarolina]

At some point they will totally fug up the game of football and fans will stop watching. Then they will go the NASCAR route. What I don't understand is why cut blocking is not gone. That ends a hell of a lot more careers then helmet to helmet contact. The owners and gooddumb only care about money and that's the only reason they make dumbass rules for the qbs and the wrs.

it's probably the severity of the injury. A cutblock is sometimes necessary as they're is nothing the guy can do. Either cut block or let the QB get destroyed. If you cut block another player correctly they don't even care. When you get lazy and just fall at their legs you're at risk of hurting somebody.

[MaineManPanther]

these rules are hurting us. how are we supposed to compete with the saints when we cant use our defense, and all the have to do is stand in the endzone, and wait for brees to sail the football to them. you cant touch them until the ball is secured with both feet on the ground, so i guess it means automatic touchdowns everytime you are within throwing range of the endzone...

Its saying after the catch you can't hit them hit the helmet. So you can still hit them before the catch, and after just so long as its not in the head.

[Sandy Claws]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=5005206

This would eliminate hits like the one Chris Harris delivered on that poor Jacksonville Jaguar a few years ago... I dont agree with this at all. They're also talking about moving Linemen from a 3 point to a 4 point stance in order to reduce the cumulitive affect that those head shots produce...

As others have said, you left out a key piece of the quote. Also, I think you'll find that you're not entirely correct on the 3 point to 4 point stance.

The sky isn't falling.

[DangerClose]

In another few years we will all be watching flag football.

and after health care reform is passed, congress will pass another bill banning football for being too violent. remember hugs, kisses, and kumbiyah. everyone is a winner!