NFL's 4th and 15 proposal and the Bengals

[fredtoast]

Maybe I have just lived through enough to see that change does not destroy any sport.  And I have seen BIG changes.  I remember baseball purists heads were exploding over the designated hitter.   I remember when there was no three point shot in basketball, and I remember the brutal "thug ball" of the NBA in the '80's and '90's.  When I first became an NFL fan the passing game was at it's lowest level of the modern era.  The passing numbers from the early to mid seventies were worse than the in the 50's and 60's.  They made a major rule change in '78 and it changed the game forever.  If you like passing then you owe it to a rule change in the '70's.

I watch sports to see super human athletes perform amazing feats of strength, speed, and dexterity.  I watch to feed the basic human instict of competition for supremacy.  Rule changes don't make much difference to me.