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Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 30 15, 8:51 pm
by Radbird
ghostrunner wrote:Basketball - Does anyone else think they should limit timeouts in the last few minutes? To say, 1 per team? I'm guessing networks love all the timeouts since it lets them go to commercials when people are all hyped up. I find it really frustrating. I'd do it up and down all levels though - NBA, college, etc....
Yes. The end of a game is excruciatingly slow with all the timeouts, fouls, free throws. The controllable things are timeouts. I'd say only 1 in last 2 minutes maybe?
Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 30 15, 9:21 pm
by MrCrowesGarden
I wish RBs/WRs/TEs were allowed to get a running start to the line of scrimmage, a la arena football. All legal so long as they don't cross before the ball is snapped. Maybe limited to one player per play.
Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 31 15, 8:58 pm
by MrSaigon
NBA: No shooter initiating contact with his leg to get the foul/and 1. It's such bs.
Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 31 15, 9:04 pm
by slide_into_first
In football, "touchback" and "safety" are named for the wrong plays. A touchback should be similar to a touchdown, you score two points if you tackle the opponent in his endzone. A safety is when you don't run back a kick to play it safe.
Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 31 15, 9:07 pm
by jim
Radbird wrote:ghostrunner wrote:Basketball - Does anyone else think they should limit timeouts in the last few minutes? To say, 1 per team? I'm guessing networks love all the timeouts since it lets them go to commercials when people are all hyped up. I find it really frustrating. I'd do it up and down all levels though - NBA, college, etc....
Yes. The end of a game is excruciatingly slow with all the timeouts, fouls, free throws. The controllable things are timeouts. I'd say only 1 in last 2 minutes maybe?
It's the fouls more than anything. Fix that by saying that if you are the team behind in the last 2 minutes, a foul is just points on the board for the other team - you don't have to shoot the free throws.
Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 31 15, 9:24 pm
by slide_into_first
Just lower the number of personal fouls in NBA to 5 like in college.
Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 31 15, 9:27 pm
by slide_into_first
Make the goal line pylons in football electrified so a player gets shocked if he touches it.
Re: Change a rule (basketball, football, curling edition)
Posted: January 31 15, 9:30 pm
by slide_into_first
Legalize unnecessary roughness for the final two minutes of each half in pro football.