Fixing Football: Three Rule Changes For Our Greatest American Game

Fixing Football
ARLINGTON, TX - AUGUST 25: A yellow penalty flag at Cowboys Stadium on August 25, 2012 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TX - AUGUST 25: A yellow penalty flag at Cowboys Stadium on August 25, 2012 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Here's something I hate about myself: Whenever the NFL introduces a new rule, I'm automatically against it. My natural reaction to any change in the rule book is to assume it's wrong.1 And yet — despite this reflexive disagreement with every change made by other people — I annually find myself inventing potential rule changes that I'd undoubtedly be against if they were proposed by anyone who wasn't me.

Here are three rule changes that I would consider wrongheaded, except for the fact that I thought of them …

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