See you’re basically attacking those who don’t like the rules that are being changed. So we’re not allowed to attack the pro changes, but you can attack the guys who don’t want changes?
How is calling us fans with a chicken Little effect any different than us calling those who want the changes Not real CFL fans. If let’s say our suspicions are true and they in the future do remove more rules to further reduce the Canadian aspect of the game. Are you going to come and apologize for calling us what you call us?
Moving the goal posts are totally weird. There is no problem with the posts. The better idea to reduce field goals is to award fewer points. Such as 1 point for a FG inside the 25 yard, 2 points for a FG inside the 40. And give the offense the option to scrimmage from the 40 or where the FG was kicked.
Duke Ellingson, former player, current scribe, wrote ,perhaps, the most thoughtful in-depth analysis of the rule changes. It can be found on 3downation. It is exactly the kind of feedback that the CFL tall foreheads should have asked for, prior to the announcements…instead of the cloak and dagger secrecy. When owners and the commish think that they know it all and don’t need any input from people who just may know more than they do, the league will continue to flounder. Over decades, there is a litany of evidence to prove that the tall foreheads are, in fact, not that tall.
Why should he or anybody apologize to you for anything?
Many simply do not agree with you.
That’s life.
Get over your demands for apologies now for starters.
Or perhaps don’t and keep on waiting bitterly for them to choose to be a sad sack too!
Indeed. Along such lines, here’s how I have proposed that the modified rouge can be easily modified to ensure as many returns as possible of returnable kicks.
Commish is from a TV background. The posts are in the way from a TV perspective. Anything he says to the contrary is just justifying the move. People who didn’t like Ambrosie are now wishing he stayed.
People who didn’t like Ambrosie claimed that he got nothing done. People who don’t like Stewart complained that he got something done and way too quickly to boot and without flyers sent to every mailbox to warn everyone and ask their opinion. These people are the same people.
Fans of 4dn football are going to enjoy all these changes as proposed. Will no longer be embarrassed by the superior 3dn game. If the US adopted the 3dn game their fans would never look back.
I don’t watch the NFL at all. Lifelong CFL fan and I am not entirely opposed to these changes.
Skeptical somewhat of the effect of moving the posts but interested to see. The rouge should count on all playable kicks into goal but the proposed modification is still an improvement from the status quo. The new consistent timing will give us MORE football at an average faster real time pace. And benches on opposite sides is a no brainer.
I enjoy Canadian football for the speed with which the ball moves up and down the field due to the urgency of 3 downs, the dynamisme of unlimited backfield motion and the importance of kicking. We aren’t losing any of that save for missed field goal returns in the new ruleset.
The details such as scrimmage points follwing a score or change of posession in goal, kickoff point, timeouts and the conduct of the clock in the waning minutes of the half are TBD and will also be important.
I for one would absolutely love to see the NFL experiment with 3 downs even if was just in pre-season for a year and evaluate. It would be very interesting to see. Combined with a one yard off the ball line of scrimmage like the CFL as well.
That experiment had nothing to do with the NFL. If it had been NFL teams playing NFL teams then NFL fans would have watched in even greater numbers just to see what was what. Move the goal posts back and make the rouge a playable point and they’d be just fine perhaps.
