re: Sports rules you would like to see changed

Just get rid of the 3 point line altogether.

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Defensive holding shouldn’t be an automatic first down…what other 5 yard penalty is an auto first?

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It's actually a 10 yard penalty, but I agree it shouldn't be an auto 1st down.

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Touchback and change of possession for a fumble into the endzone is the most idiotic fricking rule in all of sports. Anyone that likes it only likes it for nostalgia. It makes no sense to penalize a team after they drive it all the way down the field. A touchback with possession retained perhaps, but a turnover is dumb and always has been dumb

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The reasons for it have nothing to do with nostalgia.

What on earth are you talking about when you say “it makes no sense to penalize a team after they drive it all the way down the field”?

What if they only had to drive two yards?

What should their reward be for “almost” getting into the opponent’s end zone?

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Allow steroids in every sport

MLB- get rid of the DH for NL. Get rid of ghost runners in extra innings. Computerized strike zone.

Football- college OT rules should be the same every OT. PI in college should be spot fouls, not 15 yards. Defensive penalties should not be automatic 1st downs. It should be yardage and a replay of the down if yardage isn’t enough for the 1st.

Tennis- a let is either a fault or it’s good. No more redos.

NBA- bring back the 90s style hand checking. Allow more physicality. Get rid of charge calls. Watching 3 point contests every game is boring.

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It's actually a 10 yard penalty

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It’s a 5 yard penalty in the NFL.

Ten yards at every other level of football.

Death penalty for egregiously missed calls by nfl refs

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Note that two of these are different than the others - they are magical.

Magical places have special rules. It's pretty simple - fumble the ball out of bounds, you've gone from one non-magical place to another. Fumble the ball from the playing field into your opponent's end zone and there are consequences.

Remember, in football the defense is defending their end zone. That is their part of the field - the offense has no claim to it. So if they lose possession into the end zone, there should be a penalty.

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I think as soon as you start talking about magical places and special rules when discussing football, your argument by default sounds pretty silly.

There aren’t really special rules in the endzone, outside of the fact that once the offensive player has established possession of the ball in it, the play is over because they’ve scored. It’s like home plate in baseball. It doesn’t have special rules (atleast I don’t think so but granted not the biggest baseball fan), but as soon as a runner touches it, they’ve scored and they’re out of the play.

I don’t care about the fumbling into the endzone rule nearly as much as I used to, but I do think it’s fairly indefensible. When you start talking about “special rules” you’re agreeing that something is inconsistent and unique, and I don’t see any reason for that to be the case. I also think it’d be more exciting if we had players diving for and skying through the air, but now they’re all taught not to.

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Honestly this is the most polarizing thing in this thread… seems like most want the NFL to make PI 15 yards and not a spot foul

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The biggest issue for me is that if you are going to assume the offense makes the catch at the spot and give them the ball there, then you should give the defense the same benefit of the doubt when they are interfered with. That would mean awarding the defense the ball at the spot of the foul in the event of OPI.

Obviously that’s extreme and wouldn’t be a good rule but it illustrates how unfair the current rule is.