Veck never quite did that. The dimensions were only altered between different series.
Sorry — I should have clarified that it wasn’t during a game. I didn’t realize it was the entire series, though, so thanks for that. (Though that would make the most sense.)
All global professional sports
City teams can only get players from that state/province/region (if dealing with a city or state with multiple teams split areas of the state into spheres of influence)
National teams can only use players born in that country.
Moving or changing citizenship can not be used to circumvent this.
Slight Hijack: At the Pro level, and the money these guys make, Free Throws should be 100% Automatic. I think if they miss, they have to pay a hefty fine.
So, the name may or not be more accurate.
This would make sports so much better. Instead of cheering for laundry you’d be chearing for a local guy. That’s the reason the Olympics and college sports are so popular you have a connection to the team and players.
jaycat, meet nail on head. Specially the cockamanie idea that baseball should start an inning with runners on base. That made me LOL. Can you imagine such a thing?
College players generally aren’t local, especially for competitive programs.
That’s kind of true but most programs stress winning the recruiting battle in their own state. This ends up with a higher percentage of local players on every team. For instance Alabama has 53 players from Alabama on their 99 man roster.
Aside from that my point with colleges was also about the connection to the players because you go or went to the same college. So even the kid from out of state who goes to Alabama is connected to the players because they go to the same school. Of course, this doesn’t explain people who didn’t go to the college that are passionate about that college.
NASCAR racing: the drivers are blind folded, the spotter tells the driver how to get around the track.
And the spotters can’t use the words ‘turn’ or ‘left’.
Actually, not sure there is anything left to ruin NASCAR. It’s all been tried.
Make every driver the person on the freeway who’s always ahead of you who routinely goes 10MPH under the speed limit on the far left lane until you try to pass them and they then passively aggressively try to block you from overtaking.
They make football shaped golf balls, there’s even a game called GolfCross.
I hear people say all the time that “pros should be able to make all their free throws!”. Given that only four players in NBA history have been able to average even 90% for their career, it seems like a weird thing to say.
(Rick Barry, Mark Price, Steve Nash, and the current all-time leader, Steph Curry at 90.8%)
“Okay now… turn left, left, straight… left, hang a left. Now straight, K, hang a left, another left… straight. Left again, more left. … (etc.)”
Any football player, college or NFL who makes a referee-type signal to indicate a first down or claim a penalty gets his team flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct. End zone celebrations of sacks will result in the offending team being assessed a safety. Failure to help an opposing player off the turf will be considered taunting.
There will be periodic breaks in pro soccer games in which players gather at midfield to enact advertisements for their team’s major sponsors.
In European football, player transfers are restricted to winter and summer transfer windows. The whole transfer business is rife with shady deals and brown envelopes.
I think that transfers should be by public auction. Players could be put up on a stage and auctioned off to the highest bidder. On TV I am sure that it would get a huge audience, especially if they had to parade naked and oiled up.
Way behind - tournament slo-pitch softball has limits on the number of home runs a team can hit (# depends on level). I believe extras are outs. Teams work to load the bases prior to using one.
Back about 100 years ago when I attempted to play competitive slo-pitch, a rule was instituted that one player per team could hit home runs. Whoever did it first in a game could hit as many as he could muster in subsequent at-bats. All other home runs hit by other players were outs.
All football fields must be constructed so they can be tilted on a central axis. Thus, the underdog or team that’s behind by a certain number of points gets to play downhill, while the other squad is compelled to fight uphill.
Such a rule would make sense of the inane sportscaster reference to “running downhill”, and would level the playing field for real.
Hockey will henceforth be played with crampons on players’ boots, instead of blades. No other changes.