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TheMightyFavog

(13,770 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 11:31 PM Dec 2012

Roger Goodell, what the ever loving fuck is wrong with you?

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8720551/roger-goodell-floats-idea-end-kickoffs-report-says

Commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday the NFL's competition committee would consider in the offseason replacing the kickoff. The league previously had moved the kickoff from the 30- to 35-yard line to cut down on violent collisions.

Goodell and Rich McKay, the head of the league's competition committee, discussed an idea brought up by Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano in which a team, instead of kicking off, would get the ball at its own 30-yard line in a fourth-and-15 situation. The team then would punt the ball away or, to replace an onside kick, could go for it and, if it failed to get a first down, the opposing squad would start with great field position.

"The fact is, it's a much different end of the play," Goodell said during the meeting, according to Time magazine.

Speaking about the potential change before Thursday night's Raiders-Broncos game in Oakland, Calif., the commissioner said, "I thought it was an interesting idea. The committee will look at it."
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Roger Goodell, what the ever loving fuck is wrong with you? (Original Post) TheMightyFavog Dec 2012 OP
They might as well just roll some dice to see how many yards Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #1
Considering his work history jrandom421 Dec 2012 #2

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
1. They might as well just roll some dice to see how many yards
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 11:40 PM
Dec 2012

a team gets on each down ............ make it into a board game
and then no one gets hurt

jrandom421

(1,005 posts)
2. Considering his work history
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:33 AM
Dec 2012

It's whatever he can do to give the Steelers the advantage. Anything to prevent them from sinking to pre-1969 levels of incompetence and irrelevance.

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