The problem with the whole two-minute rule is it’s up to some guy in a booth to decide if there should be a challenge or not. Lots of times there’s really close plays that a coach would challenge, but the replay booth never says anything. I say simplify the process. Once the Coach drops the flag, the ref makes an immediate announcement and then has exactly 1 minute to make a decision. Then he comes out and states his ruling. Shouldn’t take more than two minutes. No discussion between the coach and the ref, and the coach can’t say “Never mind.” If they didn’t understand the rule, too bad.
I make an equivalent case for all sports at the professional level. The argument that “we can’t do that at the non-pro level” makes me all head-explodey. They’re professionals. They’re doing this for a living and many, many people are paying an exorbitant amount of money to put on these spectacles and get them out to the fans. Use the available technology to make sure as many things are done correctly as possible.
It’s impossible to be in an offside position during a corner kick.
Until an Offensive player touches it, or a Defensive player controls it.
It can’t be called on the initial corner kick, as the ball is considered to be kicked from the end line (even if it is slightly off it within the arc to avoid the flag). Therefore, the first consideration in being in an offside position, that you be ahead of the ball when it is kicked by a team mate, is impossible to be fulfilled, as you can’t be both ahead of the ball and in the field of play when the ball is kicked from the end line (players off the field of play over the end line are judged to be ‘on’ the end line for purposes of determining offside).
I go the other way. Penalize anyone who celebrates with anything more than a fist pump of spontaneous excitement. Cumulatively.
Just tackled someone? Congratulations, it’s your job. Get back into the huddle. No one needs to see you pose like Mr. Universe.
What about unlimmited clubs but you can only use 8 on a specific hole?
It’s not so much suspended because you can’t be offsides if you’re behind the ball. In a corner kick all offensive players are behind the ball.
How about unlimited clubs but you have to carry your own bag.
Personally I’d go the other way with golf, increase the challenge by giving them only 3 or 4 clubs to use. Hell make it one for the ultimate test. It’d be fascinating what sort of weird hybrid would be developed to do everything. Maybe something with a round shaft and four totally different faces?
There has been some sort of “one-club championship” (yes, you have to use the same club for every shot, including putting) for decades.
As for the “multi-faced club,” those are already illegal (as are “all-in-one irons” where you can adjust the angle of the club face).
Cool, do the pros take part or is it a strictly amateur thing?
There is prize money involved, at least at the “world championship”, but it’s a specialty thing, sort of like long distance hitting contests. I have a feeling it takes a lot of practice to learn to putt properly with a 6-iron.
Good one.
And baseball needs some type of time clock. Pitchers are only allowed 10 seconds after the last pitch to throw again. And if the batter’s not in the damn box when it happens it’s an automatic strike.
And after the last out of an inning, the other team has two minutes to get on the field and ready for play.
I might watch the game then.
Indeed, looking at the hall of famers who have done a round in the 70s on that site I didn’t recognise any names. Pretty bloody impressive to shot around in the 70s with one club, (from a casual hacker who’ll almost certainly never break 100).
I’d still love to see the leading pros have a go with one club.
A rule in FIS Telemark ski racing that was tossed out following the 1996 season – prior to then, the skis had to be skinny skis (I can’t remember the exact dimension). Think of it this way: if you were racing down an icy giant slalom course, would you want to be on alpine skis or cross-country skis? Well, instead of looking at it that way, the manufacturers figured that since telemark and cross-country skiing uses free heels, then telemarkers should use cross-country skis, albeit with metal edges. The FIS wanted to encourage the production of telemark skis, so it put the rule in place requiring skinny skis, which had the effect of forcing telemark racers to use telemark skis rather than alpine skis. That stagnated the sport, for racing on inferior equipment is not particulary enticing, and the stagnation of the sport kept telemark ski sales down, which in turn combined with the FIS skinny ski rule did not encourage the manufacturers to put money into developing new skis.
The difference with golf being that all aspects of a player’s score are entirely in the player’s hands. There is no opponent (other than the course). Name another sport that has a professional level where that is true.
Darts?
Any individual sport.
Bowling
Then there’s the proposed FIS Alpine ski turing radius changes. Giant slalom is the carving race. FIS is proposing changing the Men’s GS ski turning radius from 27m to 40m, and the manufacturers are trying to talk FIS down to no more than 35m, but even then it would be a huge step back in performance. I can see how it would take stress off knees, but by the same token, I think it would increase the frequency of crashes due to lessened ski responsiveness.
That’s why I like looking at the 1982 WS Game 7 disc from A&E’s release called The St. Louis Cardinals: The Greatest Games of Busch Stadium 1966-2005. Then, they seemed to be very much like that-- there wasn’t, IIRC, very much, if any, hem-hawing around.