That sounds like sour grapes to me.
Why not take away all their draft picks? That’d show 'em that we won’t stand for minor procedural irregularities. (Videotaping the opposing coaches is legal, but you must do it from a vantage point that has a roof.)
Then you should gets points for forcing a 3-and-out.
MMA:
Next fighter who tests positive for drugs is out for 1 year.
Second and subsequent fighters are banned permanently.
Institute yellow card system from Pride (stalling loses you 10% of your purse).
Nobody gets a nickname. If you don’t like your real name, change it in court.
Bruce Buffer shall be required to demonstrate that he can accurately count and pronounce the correct number of syllables in a variety of last names. For example, “Smith” is one syllable. It is not “Suh-Huh-Mih-Hith!!!”
First I’ll take on the Supreme Schedule Czar role:
Primary concern will be to the NBA & MLB
NBA - The season schedule will wrap up just before the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game and playoffs will start the week after.
MLB season will not start until May 1st and will end on Labor Day. This should allow for World Series to wrap up close to the end of September.
OK Schedules Corrected
Now for the NBA: Traveling will be called once again.
MLB: DH is gone, as is all artificial turf
NFL: Same OT procedure as NCAA and artificial turf is history here as well.
NHL: Back on ESPN as well as NCAA Hockey
Poker: get your own phucking channel and get off ESPN
NASCAR: First time any broadcaster uses CB speak to communicate with a driver, the plug is pulled and they forfeit their contract
I assume you mean the end-of-a-half technique of spiking the ball to stop the clock? Why would you want to get rid of this? Seeing a team try to execute the two minute drill is one of the best parts of football. The tradeoff of loss-of-down-for-clock-stoppage has always been strategically interesting part of the endgame for me.
NHL:
Regular season overtime is extended to 10 minutes.
Point system modified to 3-2-1 system for regular season win, OT win, OT loss. (Note: shootouts never to be used in playoffs)
Instigator rule is kaput.
Charging and boarding are now five minute majors.
Schedule shortened to 72 games.
The next team to relocate goes to Hamilton. Following that, Winnipeg. Next in line, Quebec City. Fourth: Seattle or Portland (who can duke it out in a battle to the death). Fifth? Houston.
No-touch icing. It makes far too much sense not to use it.
Everyone goes back to wood sticks. In trade off, goalies either go back to old style pads, or lose 10% of the size of their current equipment. Their choice.
Terrible idea. The vast majority of instigator penalties come after completely legal hits. It makes no sense whatsoever to try and discourage big hits.
You know, it really doesn’t. You see maybe one injury per year on an icing and the vast majority of those injuries are caused by an illegal play anyway.
And people really underestimate how often icings are negated. It happens at least once per game, and often more than that.
The instigator rule has done more to encourage stick fouls than anything in hockey. It’s not about when instigators are called now, it’s about what the penalty prevents players from doing.
And the injuries from icing falls are often horrific and career-ending. Ask Mark Tinordi. International hockey doesn’t suffer for no-touch.
College football. The two teams with the worst records will compete in a new bowl. The Toilet Bowl (sponsored by Drano or Liquid Plumr or something).
:dubious:
If by stick fouls you’re referring slashing and the like, that’s really not a big problem in the NHL right now. And even if it were a problem, the solution is for the NHL to crack down on it, not to legalize goons going after players whenever it takes their fancy.
Riddle me this: how many players have suffered career-ending injuries on an icing play? I’ve been watching hockey since 1997 and I can’t think of a single one, although apparently Tinordi did retire in the last 10 years.
Anyway, do you watch international hockey? Just in the finals of the last world juniors there were two critical icing plays that should have been negated, including one in the final minute that would have iced the win for Canada.
ETA: if you don’t believe me on how often icings get negated, think of all of the times you’ve seen a goaltender come out of the net to play the puck on an icing. With no-touch icing, all of those plays are icing calls. The NHL is looking to speed up the game, not slow it down.
Pat Peake for one. Tinordi another. But it’s not just career-enders that are the problem. The Patrice Bergeron injury this year was on an attempt to waive off an icing. We’ll see if he comes back. Carlo Coliacavo is another guy who’s been injured on an icing play recently. And frankly, one of these injuries is too many. You tried to ice the puck. That shouldn’t be a strategy.
And no smart goalie comes out to negate an icing call. Those are icings that have already been waived off by a linesman for the various reasons they are supposed to, or a play that wasn’t an icing in the first place. Goalies will challenge for a puck, sure, but that’s to prevent a breakaway.
As far as speeding up the game - you’d save far more time by not having those seconds wasted waiting for the defencemen to go back and pick up the puck when there isn’t a challenge (ie on most icings).
And I’m not sure how I forgot about Al MacInnis’ dislocated hip.
a) No it wasn’t.
b) That was a ridiculously illegal hit. Even if it had been on a icing play, you can’t blame the icing for a dangerous and illegal hit being thrown
Are you sure that you watch hockey? Goalies play the puck on an icing all the time: they do it whenever it’s clear that the opposition is going to win the race to the puck.
I stand corrected. The replay I saw was misleading. But the illegality of the hit is beside the point. This is exactly the kind of thing that causes serious injury on icing plays, and it’s a situation that is forced on players by the rule. The risk/reward is too high. The players shouldn’t throw illegal hits, but there’s no reason to even put them in the position where it could happen on a nothing play. A lot of icing injuries are causes by slewfoots, which are also highly illegal, but that doesn’t change my point.
As I said, one career ending injury on a play like this is too much, and it’s my league, so I’m changing it.
Not as much as you claim. And my point stands - you iced the puck. Too bad.
All stadiums and arenas shall have real names. No more Mega Corp Arenas. If your compamy wants a monument to itself, build it with 100% of your own dime.
Also College Bowl Games will revert to traditional names. It’s just the Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl , Etc.
I’m not saying it isn’t sour grapes. I will totally admit that this is more selfish and not in the best interest of the game.
Baseball: The gun circle.
10 yards behind second base, is a clearly marked circle containing a loaded handgun. Under no circumstances is the gun to be used at any point.
Too much clock-stopping already, is why. If teams are so starved for time, how about they put the kibosh on dancing around for half a minute every time a player does his job and makes a routine play?
Because the guys who do that are on defense and have no control over when the next play will be run?
Hockey season must be done before June. It is a winter sport you know.