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The FG should be eliminated
from the game! It cost the Saints and the Raiders games, and California on
Saturday.
It should NOT make the
difference between real football players. It is not even a football play! It is
a carnival game to determine the winner of a football game! Think about it. It
has nothing to do with the rest of the game! There is nothing like it in any sport - a special event that has nothing to do with the rest of the game deciding the game.
The game is about running, passing, blocking and
tackling. It is not about and should not be decided by a play that has nothing
to do with the game, by a "player" who is not even part of the rest of the game.
It is a play that is foreign to the rest of the game. Those goal posts have no
purpose in the rest of the game.
It would be more fair to just have the QB try to pass the
ball through a tire hanging from the top of the goal posts. A FG is a freak show
play executed by a non-football player! Eliminate it. It should not decide who
is the better team!
No team should lose to another team just because
their soccer kicker is not as good as the other teams' soccer kicker.
Play for TDs or give 3 points for ending a drive
inside the 10, 2 for inside the 20 and 1 of for inside the 30. Sound weird? Well
it makes more sense than giving points for such a weird play as a FG kick in the
middle of a game of heavyweights running, passing, tackling and blocking.
These non-football players and this silly freak show FG kick should not be the difference in a 60 minute rock 'em, sock 'em NFL football game!
You have to step back with some perspective and look at the big picture. We
all take FGs for granted as part of the game just because they always have been.
I'm just stepping back and saying they make no sense compared to the rest of the
game.
In no other sport is there such a critical play that is completely
different from the rest of the game and performed by a "special" player who has
no role in the rest of the game.
A foul shot is still a regular player shooting the basketball at the rim
and backboard. A penalty kick in soccer or ice hockey is still a regular player
against the goalie in the net. A pinch hitter in baseball is still facing a
pitcher on the mound, trying to hit the ball, not kick it. A tiebreaker in
tennis is still a tennis game. They don't kick the ball over the net.
The action in a Football game has NOTHING to do with a guy kicking a ball
between two goal posts! It is about running, passing, blocking and
tackling.
And then we stop the game, and all the regular players who have been
running, passing, blocking and tackling come off the field and we trot on a
soccer player for this carnival-like kick through the goal posts to decide who
is the better team. You gotta admit, that is weird. Nothing like it in any other
sport.
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