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Rules Change – College Football Rules Committee is a Real Buzz Kill

June 15th, 2011

No more eye-black messages? Taunting can now result in a loss of points! What the what?!

Every year major sports, professional and amateur, inflict rules changes on players, coaches, and most importantly, fans. Many are in the sport of football and are changed in the name of safety, which always makes me snigger under my breath. I’m just certain one of these days I’m going to wake up to discover that defensive players can no longer touch the quarterback. Mark my words.

Anyway, college football made three rules changes today, and they must have felt quite strongly about them because this is an off-year for rules changes in the NCAA. Call it an emergency meeting of the rules committee to address the following: wedge blocking on kickoffs, which probably has some merit, taunting, and eye-black with messages.

If you’re like me you probably already think there’s way too many rules in college football. All these rules have always made me wonder just exactly how competent referees are. After all, we don’t expect lawyers to know every law, or writers to know every word, or even kids to know every number, so I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable to figure there are a percentage of referees who are only marginally better than you or I at making correct calls on the field. » Read more: Rules Change – College Football Rules Committee is a Real Buzz Kill

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Those Crazy Football Rules

June 12th, 2011

While we wait the couple of weeks before the Super Bowl, we can chat about how Pittsburgh and Seattle taught everybody else how to play football.

Do you watch March Madness? The team that ends up with the trophy is the one that has the endurance. Some years ago, Utah was in the final game. They pooped out before the end of the first half to my utter disappointment having spent 8 years of my life at the University of Utah.

March Madness, of course is basketball. Football is the more rugged game which would have been explained and described by Charles Darwin if it were invented in his day. However, American football came from Rugby. That’s the game where all the players have had their teeth knocked out but still love the game. Only the most fit survive.

I loved football when I was a kid. My mother would not let me put on the high school football uniform with all of the pads, helmet, and other protective devices. Because of that, those of us non-players went to the church grounds and played on the lawn without any uniforms with the safety gear. Our season ended when everybody’s knees had turned to mush from playing tackle (without knee pads) rather than touch football. » Read more: Those Crazy Football Rules