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[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

@Airman Doors

I like the Lions too. Every time they show up on the schedule the Steelers are virtually guaranteed a win. How can you not like a team like that?

i think i like it just about as much as that verbal jab i just ate from you.
arg…the lions…i just…i…i…arg…they defy explanation sometimes, you know?

[BobLibDem]

@Airman Doors

I like the Lions too. Every time they show up on the schedule the Steelers are virtually guaranteed a win. How can you not like a team like that?

At least this year they’ll get rid of Joey Harrington before the season is in the crapper.

[Sal_Ammoniac]

@Omniscient

I’m banning Green Bay from the league.

Remind me why you hate the Packers?

I like your platform, by the way. How do you stand on the one-point-after-a-touchdown issue? I understand there’s actually a constituency around this issue, and they have their own lobbying group: PATPAC.

[zamboniracer]

@Omniscient

The first thing I’d do if I got the job is replace two of the preseason games with regular season games. Essentially keeping the same number of home games, but changing the regular season into a 18 game schedule.

This allows teams, under the current divsional system, to always play every team within two of the 4 divisions in their conference once each season, in addition to their interdivisional games. The final 4 games to be played against on division in the opposite conference. Therefore teams will have to better dominate their conference to make the playoffs as a wildcard and there’ll be a more frequent rotation of teams playing intra-conference teams. I won’t have to wait 6 years between seeing the Bears pummel the Giants at home.

Next I’d create a special cap exception to allow teams to keep long standing franchise players. The NFL equivalent of the Larry Bird rule. Suppose a guy, like Bettis or McGinnest, plays on a team for 9 consecutive season he’s allowed extra contract money which doesn’t count against the cap. Call it a $6-8 million max over cap dispersed between no more than 3 players. As much as I love parity and think the system is a good one, I’d like to see a world where the Jerry Rices, Emmitt Smiths, and Ronnie Lotts of the world don’t retire in goofy looking unis.

I’m getting on the the no sudden death overtime bandwagon as well.

I’m going to allow coaches to wear whatever they want on the sidelines. If a guy wants to break out the fedora and a three-piece, let him. I’m tired of coaches looking like homeless guys. Additionally those god awful baseball hats they wear need to go too.

To steal one from TSG, I’m instituting a permanant Super Bowl site rotation, for review every 10 years. New Orleans, Miami, San Diego and Las Vegas. The last one’s tricky, I’ll find a way.

I’m banning Green Bay from the league.

I’m outlawing crappy Super Bowl halftime acts. No more U2, Stones or anything else. At most I’m bringing in a marching band. I’ll play a “Ome Shining Moment” style montage for the networks to use instead. Keep it about the football.

Omni states a good case, except for his blatant anti-Packer-ism. (Anti Billy Packer, yes. Anti Green Bay Packer, no.) My vote is torn between him and BobLibDem. I’d add the Rose Bowl in Pasedena and Detroit’s Ford Field to the Super Bowl stadium rotation.

[EllisDee]

hehheh.

Am I actually considered a conservative on this board? Wow.

You guys would hate me as commish. I’m a big fan of:

• the one point kick PAT
• sudden death overtime
• the tuck rule (It’s not really it’s own rule; it’s an extension of the definition of what a forward pass is, and I would be very against changing that definition.)
• commercial breaks to ease the painfully dead air caused by team changes. (before & after kickoffs and after punts)
• the 4 preseason / 16 regular season game schedule
• winding the clock when on going out of bounds before 5:00 left in the 4th (and before the two minute at halftime)
• the endzone extending out of bounds

Some of the ideas here that I would love to see:

• Adopt the NCAA replay system
• Revert pass interference to the way it was before the Colts whined like bitches about the Pats
• Widen the hash marks
• I love Omni’s cap exemption for veterans idea. (Strahan anyone?) But I would limit it to players drafted by the team. (As in, played for a single team their entire career. Sucks for guys like Elway and Eli, but fuck 'em if they buck the system.)

A couple quick points:

The Giants don’t play many MNF games at all. (Thankfully; Big Blue sucks on Monday night. Hard.)

Also, Omni hates the Pack because he’s a Bears fan, naturally.

[Kiros]

I am the anti-Sports-Guy as far as Super Bowl sites go: at least every other Super Bowl would be in a northern, outdoor stadium. Green Bay. New England. Chicago. Philly. The hell with all the businessmen and groupies, I want football. I’m all about the toned-down-halftimes though - marching bands and montages would be perfect.

I am undecided on overtime; I don’t think the current college system has much of a place in the NFL, and I don’t really mind the way the current system works out.

I am HUGELY in favor of restricting the number of media timeouts, for this and other sports. Unfortunately, you’d have to convince the rest of the league to give up massive amounts of TV money for that one, and good luck.

I don’t know that I’d really want the job, but I could certainly stand for being an extremely influential owner who gets to whisper these ideas in the commish’s ears.

[Omniscient]

@Ellis Dee

I love Omni’s cap exemption for veterans idea. (Strahan anyone?) But I would limit it to players drafted by the team. (As in, played for a single team their entire career. Sucks for guys like Elway and Eli, but fuck 'em if they buck the system.)

I considered this, but dismissed it. Not for the sake of Elways and Elis, but for guys like Favre, Bettis and Faulk. You can’t say they don’t deserve similar treatment to Jerry Rice and Joe Montana just because they were drafted by the Falcons, Rams and Colts respectively. In no way did they leverage their way out of town or buck the system. A guy like Favre could theoretically have been swallowing a tough pill (and being a stand up guy by not bitching about it) by being traded from the southern, big city Falcons to the frigid, small town Packers. I think the trick is finding that right length of tenure number for the guy.