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Football, Improved
Nobody seems willing to state the obvious, so
I guess that responsibility falls to me. As usual.
Football has peaked. The only direction left to go
is down.
There.
I said it.
Now, I realize that there are proponents of
conventional wisdom-- wisdom that posits this:
“Football is
thriving. It is the
most watched,
most lucrative,
smartest of the
four sports, and
its audience is
beginning to grow
internationally.”
And these
proponents are
correct. Football
is certainly the
biggest American
sport. The NFL is,
without a doubt,
the dominant
big league in
the nation. But
football has
begun to rest on
its laurels. It has
gotten content.
Lazy. Complacent. Football, continually touted
as the most liberal and progressive of American
sports, the NFL, the socialistic league that brought
sporting organization technologically progressive
enough to entrust an entire season’s outcome to
by Keaton Lamle
misunderstand the mechanisms of the BCS
computers.) have all become stagnant. And as
Darwin taught, anything that does not change,
dies This is why, in light of the Super Bowl that will
take place this month, I have outlined a few simple
steps (rule changes, etc...) that will carry our most
watchable of sports into the brave new world of
tomorrow.
THE FATHER-SON FIELD GOAL RULE
This improvement is so simple and obvious
that it is truly shocking that it has not already been
implemented into the game. The thinking behind
the rule is as follows: Field goals are too easy.
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