If I were NFL Commissioner I would...... (1 Viewer)

[Mik789fl]

1. Ban ALL owners and reporters from the sidelines during games.

2. Stop bringing in acts from "The Old Timers League" for Super Bowl Halftimes and get back to marching bands that are much more entertaining anyway.

3. Eliminate the penalty for "excessive celebration". C'mon,The NFL is entertainment,let the players have some fun. If the other team construes the celebration as "taunting" they'll take care of business on the field.

4. Make a manditory,minimum number of tickets available for EVERY GAME(Super Bowl inculded) and drop the price so that "Joe Fan" who supports his team to the max can actually afford to go to a live game.

5. Make The NFL Network and The Sunday Ticket available to EVERYONE. Competition will lower the price so MORE people will subscribe. It's win/win all the way around.

6. Admit that the rise in popularity of Fantasy Football is what has fueled The NFL's rise in popularity. It's the same game it always was,why is it "America's Game" now? FANTASY FOOTBALL!

....just a few of my rulings if I were NFL Commisshioner,what are yours?

 

[hostile]

... Institute a ZERO tolerance policy on criminal activity.

 

[RenegadeGM]

1. Look into the spelling of my job title.

Just kidding

 

[Mik789fl]

1. Look into the spelling of my job title.Just kidding

 

[RenegadeGM]

1. Look into the spelling of my job title.Just kidding

Hey, I did say I was kidding. I see you fixed it though, so time to move on to job #2.

 

[footballnerd]

Definitely agree with allowing any TD celebrations.

Give something playoff significant to the conference that wins the Pro Bowl.

Make overtime a different format not dependent on a coin flip.

Put Ocho Cinco's name on his jersey tomorrow, the guy earned it.

Give Adam Jones a desk job.

Allow fans to rush onto the field after a huge win. (maybe tear down the goal post)

 

[JGalligan]

- Institute a minor league system.

- Change the overtime to a college-esque format

- Change my official title from "Commissioner Galligan" to "Most Honorable and Fair Commissioner Galligan"

- Ban all post game whining (Yeah, I'm looking at you Mr. Owens)

- Institute an NIT like playoff tree for the teams that didn't make the playoffs, as to create more gambli -- err, I mean revenue opportunities

- Have a desk made that is shaped like a football, can talk, and boosts my ego by robotically saying nice things like "Most Honorable and Fair Commissioner Galligan, what an excellent choice you made today for lunch with your chicken Caesar salad wrap with honey mustard dressing. You are truly unrivaled by any living human being my fair sir!"

 

[Truman]

- Change the overtime rules

- Put the focus back on entertainment, rather than on how many pro bowlers I can suspend

- Put protection in for concussions

- Make healthcare for retired players a provision of the CBA

- open up the motion rules and widen the hashmarks like colleg to promote a more expansive game

- Pay the refs so they don't need to focus on careers during the offseason

- Move a team to LA

- Scrap the Pro Bowl

- Stop sending the superbowl to venues like Detroit and Jacksonville

- Rookie cap reduced to a reasonable level

 

[Twilight]

- Change the playoffs to a college-esque format

Unpack this please. Because if you want to have a poll on who goes to the Superbowl, while half the league play in meaningless postseason games, then that might be one of the worst ideas I've heard.

 

[JGalligan]

- Change the playoffs to a college-esque format

Unpack this please. Because if you want to have a poll on who goes to the Superbowl, while half the league play in meaningless postseason games, then that might be one of the worst ideas I've heard.

AHH! I MEANT OVERTIME! I MEANT OVERTIME! AHH!I've edited it accordingly, sorry for the scare that I was certifiably insane.

 

[Twilight]

- Change the playoffs to a college-esque format

Unpack this please. Because if you want to have a poll on who goes to the Superbowl, while half the league play in meaningless postseason games, then that might be one of the worst ideas I've heard.

AHH! I MEANT OVERTIME! I MEANT OVERTIME! AHH!I've edited it accordingly, sorry for the scare that I was certifiably insane.

 

[BigRed]

- Love the idea to eliminate "sideline reporters"

- Phase out all domed stadiums. Football was meant to be played outside.

- Phase out all astroturf - maybe allow some turf/grass hybrids at most.

- Increase penalties and/or fines for this childish, gay, idiotic circus clown "celebration" BS. Anything beyond a simple spike of the ball and/or a high-five from teammates (or this bump boobies thing they do now) is overkill. Basically, grow tf up and act like a man already. If scoring a TD in the NFL all by itself isn't enough for you, you need to find another line of work. Re the fans, if someone scoring a TD in the NFL isn't "entertaining" enough for you, go watch something more suited to your tastes (like say wrasslin). ie put the focus back on the SPORT. This isn't Hollywood.

- Hard-core institution of zero tolerance for thugs. Goodell is better than Tagliaboob, but that isn't exactly saying much. Convicted of a felony = banned for life. Convicted of drug use/sales (is that even a felony) = banned for life. Get serious about this BS already.

- 18 game seasons would never have a prayer of getting instituted. Ditto having more teams. Both are already bloated.

- Bring back the 5 yd incidental face mask penalty and cut WAY down on "roughing the passer" BS every time a DL breathes on a QB.

 

[Irish1995]

1. Televise games with an alternate soundtrack that consists of only the stadium announcer and crowd noise.

2. Eliminate two pre-season games, add more pre-season scrimmages, and add one additional regular season game.

3. Find an alternate way of dealing with overtime that eliminates or diminishes the effect the coin toss has on the outcome.

4. Require players on the same team who share a position to wear easily distinguishable numbers. For example, two running backs on the same team could not wear #28 and #29.

5. Seriously, TV broadcasts without announcers would be three hour slices of heaven.

6. Direct a software developer to write an iPhone application similar to MLB At Bat. Sell it for $2.99.

7. First positive drug test, you're suspended for a year. Second positive test and you're banned for life.

8. Change the time allocation at the draft to 5 minutes per pick.

9. Did I mention the broadcasts without announcers?

10. Call the Charger Girls into my office one at a time to, uh, thank them for their efforts.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Illiminate the tuck rule.

Pass interference is spot of the foul or 15 yards, whichever is less, unless the receiver catches the ball in which case add 5 yards to the end of the play. I'm tired of seeing 50 yard penalties.

Encourage steriod use. I like my animals large and brutish.

No more holders for placekicks. Score drop kicks on point for crossing the goal line on a fly, two for crossing the endline on a fly, and three for between the posts and over the crossbar. Missed attempts are spotted at the 20 or to where they are run back it the defending team chooses to do so.

Reduce offensive holding to 5 yards, but call it more stringently.

Ground can cause a fumble, hold the damn ball until the whistle blows.

Toss any jackass that cellibrates a first down when their team is down 14 points or more.

Any D.B. that does a Deion sanders dance gets suspended for a game.

Owners cannot be on the sideline unless they are padded up and inserted into the game for at least the opening kickoff.

Change the scoring on interceptions. If a Q.B. hits his receiver first and the ball is defelected and then caught by the defense it is a muff on the receiver and a muff recovery by the defense.

Sideline reporters must be former playmates like Brooke Berke or Lisa Durgan and they must be in heals and lingerie.

Automatic first down, I don't think so #####.

None of this half the distance to the goal line crap. If the walk off distance puts you in the endzone thats where the next play starts from and if you don't get out on your first play thereafter thats a safety.

 

[NJ]

Change the overtime format and GET RID OF THE DAMN TUCK RULE!!!

 

[perry147]

Put the Superbowl in Green bay one year.

 

[davearm]

I'd modify the current OT rules slightly to ensure that each team gets the ball at least once.

Team A kicks off to begin OT.

If Team B punts or turns the ball over to Team A, then sudden death begins with Team A's possession.

If team B scores, then Team B kicks off, and Team A gets a possession to try to tie or win.

If a tie, then Team A kicks off and sudden death begins.

 

[GregR_2]

Have sex with cheerleaders.

 

[49erBamBam52]

1. Televise games with an alternate soundtrack that consists of only the stadium announcer and crowd noise.

2. Eliminate two pre-season games, add more pre-season scrimmages, and add one additional regular season game.

3. Find an alternate way of dealing with overtime that eliminates or diminishes the effect the coin toss has on the outcome.

4. Require players on the same team who share a position to wear easily distinguishable numbers. For example, two running backs on the same team could not wear #28 and #29.

5. Seriously, TV broadcasts without announcers would be three hour slices of heaven.

6. Direct a software developer to write an iPhone application similar to MLB At Bat. Sell it for $2.99.

7. First positive drug test, you're suspended for a year. Second positive test and you're banned for life.

8. Change the time allocation at the draft to 5 minutes per pick.

9. Did I mention the broadcasts without announcers?

10. Call the Charger Girls into my office one at a time to, uh, thank them for their efforts.

LOVE the bolded ones... i hate most announcers... the Madden/Michaels combo i dont mind, the rest are absolute morons.It would be like bieng at the games... great idea!!!

i would alter though, and say if you have to have announcers, at least make the announcers team specific, and the person watching could choose which teams announcers to listen to for any game.

Im so tired of these announcers who know none of my Niners players... i am constantly correcting them...

On a side note, here is my idea for change...

Modify the review policy, to make every play (EVERY PLAY!!! regardless of whistle and forward this or dead ball that) reviewable.

Refs are HUMAN and make mistakes. those mistakes are not limited to non dead ball plays.

Of course this opens a can of worms, so you still need some sort of limits as to how many times you can challenge... i propose that you can "challenege" any play as long as you ahve a time out left to lose. if your wrong, you lose it, if your right, and the ref @#$%ed up, you earned the right to challenge further plays... until you have no more time outs.

If the refs are that bad that it delays the game becasue of so many correct reviews, then perhaps that ref does not deserve to ref anymore... i like someone else idea of paying the refs as carrerrs so they can focus on sharpening their game.

BAM

 

[GregR_2]

1. Televise games with an alternate soundtrack that consists of only the stadium announcer and crowd noise.

2. Eliminate two pre-season games, add more pre-season scrimmages, and add one additional regular season game.

3. Find an alternate way of dealing with overtime that eliminates or diminishes the effect the coin toss has on the outcome.

4. Require players on the same team who share a position to wear easily distinguishable numbers. For example, two running backs on the same team could not wear #28 and #29.

5. Seriously, TV broadcasts without announcers would be three hour slices of heaven.

6. Direct a software developer to write an iPhone application similar to MLB At Bat. Sell it for $2.99.

7. First positive drug test, you're suspended for a year. Second positive test and you're banned for life.

8. Change the time allocation at the draft to 5 minutes per pick.

9. Did I mention the broadcasts without announcers?

10. Call the Charger Girls into my office one at a time to, uh, thank them for their efforts.

LOVE the bolded ones... i hate most announcers... the Madden/Michaels combo i dont mind, the rest are absolute morons....

I hate the bolded ideas. I think the broadcasts ratings would nosedive if they did this. If there is absolutely no usefulness in having someone doing any announcing, they why would you want to have a stadium announcer? If there is something useful in having a stadium announcer, then how is having a pick up of a loudspeaker broadcast better than having a direct feed from him so the sound is good? And if you do that, you're back to having announcers.Watching games without any announcing is brutally annoying. The NFL would have a lot better product if they just spent their time focusing on finding GOOD announcers and not finding well known ones. Take Kirk Herbstreit for example. The guy is a great announcer, easy to listen to. It doesn't have to be a football rocket scientist, just someone to point out the stuff I can't see because I'm only being shown one TV angle at a time who isn't a pain to listen to.

 

[Bankerguy]

1. Ban ALL owners and reporters from the sidelines during games.2. Stop bringing in acts from "The Old Timers League" for Super Bowl Halftimes and get back to marching bands that are much more entertaining anyway.3. Eliminate the penalty for "excessive celebration". C'mon,The NFL is entertainment,let the players have some fun. If the other team construes the celebration as "taunting" they'll take care of business on the field.4. Make a manditory,minimum number of tickets available for EVERY GAME(Super Bowl inculded) and drop the price so that "Joe Fan" who supports his team to the max can actually afford to go to a live game.5. Make The NFL Network and The Sunday Ticket available to EVERYONE. Competition will lower the price so MORE people will subscribe. It's win/win all the way around.6. Admit that the rise in popularity of Fantasy Football is what has fueled The NFL's rise in popularity. It's the same game it always was,why is it "America's Game" now? FANTASY FOOTBALL!....just a few of my rulings if I were NFL Commisshioner,what are yours?

1) I don't understand the benefit or challenge there.2) LOL..OK.3) Agreed. Enforce taunting. Allow any celebrations and implement a shorter play clock for extra points.4) It's a business. Profit is KING.5) See 4....but it would be nice for those who don't get it.6) I think they do a GREAT job of this already. What more do you want to see?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mine:-Make Pass Interference reviewable-Tuck rule -Less Pre-season games-Get a franchise in Toronto and LA.I would like to be able to have access to the all 22 camera view. I'd even pay for it.

 

[TakiToki]

Eliminate the five-yard limitation to bumping an eligible receiver before the ball is in the air. Let these guys play defense.

Change the "clock doesn't restart after a play that ends out-of-bounds" from 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter to 10 minutes left in the 4th quarter.

Get rid of field goals. Once inside its opponents 20-yard line, a team may elect to take an automatic 3 points. PATs are automatic as well.

Spot the ball on all plays on the last crossed yardline, and get rid of the silly measuring business. Now, a ref randomly sets the ball down in the general vicinity of where the play ended and then measures that random spot to the centimeter.

Widen hashmarks.

 

[Nemesis]

Change the OT rules so that a team would win if they scored 4 or more points.

(if a team wins the coin-flip and scores a TD, GAME OVER.......but if they kick a FG, the other team would get a chance to score)

Give refs the ability to send players off the field for OFFSETTING PERSONAL FOULS.......similar to a hockey penalty box. Each player sits for 3 plays and couldn't re-enter the game during this "time out". Would eliminate the fights where the end result is a "no call".

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

All penalties against the Vikings should be announced by the Ref as follows: Cheating on this punk ### ##### over here (point at the Viking), and then state the yardage down and distance.

 

[Ozymandias]

Institute increasing penalties for celebrations. Play the game, don't act like an opera singer taking a bow.

Tell the TV announcers that if they spend more than 5% of the time discussing something other than what is going on on the field, they will be fined humungous amounts.

 

[Irish1995]

I hate the bolded ideas. I think the broadcasts ratings would nosedive if they did this. If there is absolutely no usefulness in having someone doing any announcing, they why would you want to have a stadium announcer? If there is something useful in having a stadium announcer, then how is having a pick up of a loudspeaker broadcast better than having a direct feed from him so the sound is good? And if you do that, you're back to having announcers.Watching games without any announcing is brutally annoying. The NFL would have a lot better product if they just spent their time focusing on finding GOOD announcers and not finding well known ones. Take Kirk Herbstreit for example. The guy is a great announcer, easy to listen to. It doesn't have to be a football rocket scientist, just someone to point out the stuff I can't see because I'm only being shown one TV angle at a time who isn't a pain to listen to.

That's why my proposal was for an alternate soundtrack, allowing those who want to listen to announcers drone on with anecdotes and unrelated stories about players can do so.All I want from an announcer is, "Peterson carries for 7 yards." Which, amazingly, is what the stadium announcer does. How about that. I don't need to hear about all the other crap the announcers feel the need to fill time with.My proposal would give you the in stadium experience, which seems to work well enough for 50,000 people per stadium each Sunday.

 

[Chaka]

Two chicks at the same time.

 

[Gottabesweet]

1. Keep the Bills in Buffalo

2. Keep the NFL out of Canada

3. Keep the NFL out of any where but the USA

4. Stop changing so many things.

5. Fire myself and bring back Tags

6. Keep the season length and pre-season games as is.

7. Did I mention stop messing with stuff?

 

[belljr]

Mandatory Topless Cheerleaders

 

[JGalligan]

I would also use my other-worldly powers to make the day after the Super Bowl an official holiday called, "The National Football League Super Bowl Hangover Recovery Day".

I would also set up massive March Madness style tournaments for Madden and also make sure the retired players dont get treated like #### and get the shaft from everyone after they're done playing.

 

[Manasseh]

6. Admit that the rise in popularity of Fantasy Football is what has fueled The NFL's rise in popularity. It's the same game it always was,why is it "America's Game" now? FANTASY FOOTBALL!

Start fining teams for all their screwed up injury reports. If a guy's out, say he's out. If he's not, say he's not.This week alone we have conflicting reports on Romo, Addai, Parker, Portis, and Bush (those are off the top of my head). Protect FANTASY FOOTBALL lineups. We make you!

 

[The Kansas Comet]

1. Get rid of the tuck rule.

2. Allow end zone celebrations.

3. Penalize celebrations of the mundane (tackles made 10 yards down field, 7 yard catches for first downs et. al.)

4. Make the coaches' film view of games available on pay-per-view

5. Find a way to remove Al Davis from any leadership position on the Raiders

6. Eliminate regular season games played overseas

7. Eliminate domed stadiums

8. Establish a rookie salary cap

 

[49erBamBam52]

1. Televise games with an alternate soundtrack that consists of only the stadium announcer and crowd noise.

2. Eliminate two pre-season games, add more pre-season scrimmages, and add one additional regular season game.

3. Find an alternate way of dealing with overtime that eliminates or diminishes the effect the coin toss has on the outcome.

4. Require players on the same team who share a position to wear easily distinguishable numbers. For example, two running backs on the same team could not wear #28 and #29.

5. Seriously, TV broadcasts without announcers would be three hour slices of heaven.

6. Direct a software developer to write an iPhone application similar to MLB At Bat. Sell it for $2.99.

7. First positive drug test, you're suspended for a year. Second positive test and you're banned for life.

8. Change the time allocation at the draft to 5 minutes per pick.

9. Did I mention the broadcasts without announcers?

10. Call the Charger Girls into my office one at a time to, uh, thank them for their efforts.

LOVE the bolded ones... i hate most announcers... the Madden/Michaels combo i dont mind, the rest are absolute morons....

I hate the bolded ideas. I think the broadcasts ratings would nosedive if they did this. If there is absolutely no usefulness in having someone doing any announcing, they why would you want to have a stadium announcer? If there is something useful in having a stadium announcer, then how is having a pick up of a loudspeaker broadcast better than having a direct feed from him so the sound is good? And if you do that, you're back to having announcers.Watching games without any announcing is brutally annoying. The NFL would have a lot better product if they just spent their time focusing on finding GOOD announcers and not finding well known ones. Take Kirk Herbstreit for example. The guy is a great announcer, easy to listen to. It doesn't have to be a football rocket scientist, just someone to point out the stuff I can't see because I'm only being shown one TV angle at a time who isn't a pain to listen to.

OK i see your point and agree actually, with a caveat... i cant even understand the staduim announcers to begin with, i dont pay attention to them, and i know my team and the game of football well enough to not need a stadium announcer. That bieng said, ruins the argument for having the TV game announcers.My addition of having team specific announcers is only an "in the event the origional idea cant be done" and not an addition to it. If i had an announcer to listen to that knew the names of the players on my team then i would be a happy viewer.

Completely agree about your second statement. the NFL needs to find better announcers. But the point is that they have not, and from what it seems they cant... which is why many times i end up tuning to my local AM station and muting the TV.

The best point you bring up is having someone to see multiple shots and point out things you cant see from other angles... no real way around that one without having announcers... i just wish they werent so dumb.

BAM

 

[gianmarco]

Impose fines for 1st round fantasy players that don't live up to their expectations. Let's see how guys like Addai like rushing for 43 yds when it costs him $10k every time he's out of the top 20.

 

[The Jacket]

Impose fines for 1st round fantasy players that don't live up to their expectations. Let's see how guys like Addai like rushing for 43 yds when it costs him $10k every time he's out of the top 20.

 

[BigRed]

8. Change the time allocation at the draft to 5 minutes per pick.

I can't believe how many of us forgot this one.

 

[Ted Lange as your Bartender]

1. NOT extend the season beyond 16 regular-season games. It's fine as it is.

2. Never expand beyond the current 32-team, 8-division format.

3. Implement the "First to 6" OT rule. Score a TD in overtime, you win immediately. Kick a FG, risk the other team scoring a TD on you.

4. Rebrand Houston's NFL team the Oilers. Just seems right.

5. Implement a "FanZone" SAP broadcast feed for all games. Instead of the same old professional announcers, you get one fan of each team in the booth calling the game. The English Premier League does this and it's really funny.

6. Outdoor cold weather Super Bowl once every 5-10 years. GB, Chicago, NY, Philly, etc. should all get to host the game too

 

[tarheel1unc]

1. Change overtime to 10 minute increments until someone wins.

2. Get rid of those nets during field goals and extra points. I think you can afford a few footballs.

 

[TidesofWar]

Set out to crush the Commissioner of the "No Taste League"