05-24-2020, 10:42 AM
(05-23-2020, 07:12 PM)Circleville Guy Wrote: Are there just a bunch of yuppies coming up with these ideas in sports these days? People want to feel important so badly that they will eventually change these sports into something entirely different then what they originally were. How about base runners in baseball ride bicycles and WR’s can be on horseback? Seriously, they want to change something every single year. There’s also the behind the scenes things they change too, the balls change.... when is it ever good enough?
(05-23-2020, 08:36 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: It needs to stop.
Yuppies?
WTF are you drama queens crying about. There have been changes to the game constantly for the entire life of the game. Did yuppies make the forward pass legal? Did they invent face maskes? Did they move the goalposts from the goal line to the back of the end zone?
In 1977 Bert Jones led the league with 2800 passing yards, and the league average was 141 passing yards per game. Ken Andersons 69.7 passer rating was good for 9th in the league. After that season the NFL changed the rules so that a defender could no longer maintain physical contact with a receiver more than 5 yards past the line of scrimmage. It revolutionized the game and changed it into what we like to watch today. If the yuppies were responsible for that then I want to thank them.
This current rule proposal is a tiny change that effects way less than 1% of the plays in a season and people are comparing it to baseball players riding horses?
And WTF do "yuppies" have to do with any of this?
