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Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Wed November 20, 2013 12:49 pm
by Peeps
dkfan9 wrote:
yeah that one was worse. both were terrible, of course, but at least the brooks hit
looked bad.
i know i got hit hard to it has to be a flag.
the next time he gets hit hard i hope that mole gets dislocated
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Sun November 24, 2013 9:58 pm
by Green Habit
Ties in the NFL. Just do what McNabb assumed and queue up another quarter.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Wed November 27, 2013 7:53 pm
by Green Habit
I watched the Fail Mary again on YouTube and was reminded of a couple more stupid NFL rules:
1) When a team scores a touchdown with no time left, and the game isn't tied or the scoring team isn't down by 1 or 2 points, it's utterly pointless to have them attempt a PAT. They don't do it in overtime, and they shouldn't at the end of regulation.
2) That said, the NFL should do what they do in college and allow the defense to run a PAT back the other way for 2 points. That would add more strategy and drama. Stupid Rule #1 would still be stupid, except the acceptable range would be a 2 point margin either way.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Wed November 27, 2013 10:21 pm
by @SkitchP
It isn't so much a rule, but..
With the decreased emphasis on kickoff returns, we see a huge percentage of touchbacks, and kick offs usually happen after touchdowns. Nothing bothers me more than
TD
Commercial
Touchback
Commercial.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Thu November 28, 2013 2:02 am
by Fuck You Jobu
@SkitchP wrote:It isn't so much a rule, but..
With the decreased emphasis on kickoff returns, we see a huge percentage of touchbacks, and kick offs usually happen after touchdowns. Nothing bothers me more than
TD
Commercial
Touchback
Commercial.
Yes!!
Except towards the end of the game and the beer lines are getting longer...
But yes.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Thu November 28, 2013 7:44 am
by dkfan9
Fuck You Jobu wrote:@SkitchP wrote:It isn't so much a rule, but..
With the decreased emphasis on kickoff returns, we see a huge percentage of touchbacks, and kick offs usually happen after touchdowns. Nothing bothers me more than
TD
Commercial
Touchback
Commercial.
Yes!!
Except towards the end of the game and the beer lines are getting longer...
But yes.
but it really never happens near the end of the game... they get all the commercials out of the way fairly early, just in case
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Mon December 23, 2013 5:22 am
by Green Habit
This isn't really a rule but it's something I've also vented about for years:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutd ... --nfl.html
First, let me vent on any coach of the year award. It's the most flawed award in sports.
Unlike any other award, it doesn't go to the best performer in that category. The best coach rarely gets it. It almost always goes to the coach whose team exceeds preseason media expectations the most. If the media expected your team to be 4-12, and it goes 10-6, it must be because the coach was a magician, not because of flawed preseason predictions. If MVP were decided this way, Nick Foles would beat Peyton Manning because we expected Manning to do well before the season started but didn't expect anything out of Foles. Poor, poor logic.
It's a tougher question on agreeing with him that it should be Belichick. But we all know that Andy Reid is going to win this in a landslide. At least he's more worthy than the usual coach that drastically turns around a team in one season.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Mon December 30, 2013 5:47 pm
by Electromatic
The GD targeting rule in College rears it's ugly head in the armed forces bowl as a Navy player is ejected for playing football. No head or neck contact.
Good idea in theory, horrible in practice. Get spearing out of the game but damn let them play defense
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Mon December 30, 2013 8:15 pm
by Chris_H_2
Electromatic wrote:The GD targeting rule in College rears it's ugly head in the armed forces bowl as a Navy player is ejected for playing football. No head or neck contact.
Good idea in theory, horrible in practice. Get spearing out of the game but damn let them play defense
Isn't that reviewable in college?
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Tue December 31, 2013 3:08 am
by Electromatic
Only the ejection not the 15 yd penalty
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Tue December 31, 2013 2:57 pm
by Monkey_Driven
A few from college basketball...
- The possession arrow. Just do a jump ball.
- 34 second shot clock. Inexcusable at this point.
- Excessive amount of timeouts (TV and coach-called)
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Tue December 31, 2013 5:09 pm
by numbers
As much of a baseball traditionalist as I am, the mound visit is so stupid. It's rately used as anything other than a stall tactic, and it's not like hitting coaches get to go out and talk to the hitter mid at-bat.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Tue December 31, 2013 5:20 pm
by Fuck You Jobu
numbers wrote:As much of a baseball traditionalist as I am, the mound visit is so stupid. It's rately used as anything other than a stall tactic, and it's not like hitting coaches get to go out and talk to the hitter mid at-bat.
They do talk to the 3rd base coach on occasion.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Tue December 31, 2013 10:02 pm
by Green Habit
Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Mike Florio agrees with me:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... pionships/
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Tue December 31, 2013 11:34 pm
by elliseamos
Green Habit wrote:Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Mike Florio agrees with me:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... pionships/
somebody call the whambulance.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Wed January 01, 2014 12:53 am
by Chris_H_2
Green Habit wrote:Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Mike Florio agrees with me:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... pionships/
I haven't read the article, but basically you're saying just seed based on record after qualifying, correct?
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Wed January 01, 2014 3:41 am
by Green Habit
Chris_H_2 wrote:Green Habit wrote:Green Habit wrote:In the NFL, I think it's absolute bullshit that a team can have the second best record in a conference, but get stuck in the #5 seed and be forced to play three road games to get to the Super Bowl if the one team that had a better record was a division rival. It's likely that either the Broncos or the Chiefs are going to get screwed by this rule this year.
Mike Florio agrees with me:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... pionships/
I haven't read the article, but basically you're saying just seed based on record after qualifying, correct?
Yep. As a compromise, I'd be fine with using division championship status as the first tiebreaker for even records.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Wed February 12, 2014 11:48 pm
by Green Habit
The NCAA makes a bad rule slightly less bad (the 15 yard penalty on targeting can be dropped), but of course adds in another bad rule:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med ... -defensive
Seriously, how the hell does waiting 10 seconds make the game safer? I have little sympathy here--against a no-huddle offense you should either get stuck playing your same 11, or be forced to use a timeout or incur a penalty. I bet Chip Kelly's even more glad that he's in the NFL now.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Thu February 13, 2014 2:43 pm
by Electromatic
It's an attempt to change in relation to the way the game is being played.
That said, even with 85 guys on a roster, most teams don't have much ready depth. I'll be interested to see if this gets younger players more snaps, or if it does have any impact on safety. They are running so many plays now I understand trying to make a change to adjust to the style of play, the targeting thing was ridiculously and sporadically applied last season though. The next step is yellow and red cards I guess.
I'm more interested to see if coaches are becoming more proficient teaching the target zone.
Re: Stupid Rules In Sports
Posted: Fri February 14, 2014 4:02 am
by Man in Black
I'd like to see a couple NHL games played with no offsides, no two line pass rule, and all icing waved off.