Though this may look like a sports post, it should be entertaining and perhaps enlightening for all. With all the controversy surrounding many sports (the ref in last years NFL, Floyd Landis in the Tour de France, 'Roids in the MLB) something needs to be done! As a public service, I have compiled a list of 33 ideas that would make sports better for all. Here they are in no certain order:
1) Anyone heard yelling "Get in the hole" as soon as the golfer hits the ball is immediately escorted off of the course.
2) Bring back the glowing puck
3) Full time NFL refs
4) Salary cap for all sports
5) Salary floor for all sports
6) Price cap for tickets
7) NFL OT is no longer decided by a coin flip. The home team gets to choose the ball or the side to defend
8) MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL all on free TV
9) Certain play by play and color commentary people no longer allowed to speak over the air! (You know who you are!)
10) Make NASCAR drivers do a physical challenge during their pit stops. They have to accurately complete a complicated math problem while their tires are being changed or they are penalized a few seconds at the end of pit row.
11) The following phrases are outlawed:
"110%"
"We just need to score more than the other team"
"We didn't get it done tonight"
12) Call Peyton Manning for false starts! It's illegal to put your hands under center and then pull back with out the ball for any reason, including to audible.
13) No more horseracing. Period.
14) The following people need to be permanently removed from their sports and their records expunged:
Barry Bonds
Mark McGuire
Rafael Palmiero
Jason Giambi
Jose Cansaco
T.O.
Randy Moss
15) The following people need to be reinstated to their sports:
Shoeless Joe
16) Soccer ties are no longer allowed. Any ties after regulation are decided based on attack time. The team with the most attack time wins.
17) There needs to be a Triple A for the NBA. I'm sick of young players "learning on the court."
18) MLB should institute what the UK soccer league has. The worst team drops down a league and the best one from the lower league takes their place. (I'm talking to you Kansas City! "Tomorrow, the Seattle Mariners face off against the Pawtucket Red Sox")
19) No more sideline reporters. We don't have them in baseball, soccer, and hockey and we don't miss them.
20) Instant replay for baseball. Just like football. Red flag, three times, you are charged an out if you are wrong.
21) Get rid of the NIT (No-one's Interested Tournament) If you didn't make it to the big dance, don't go to the loser's ball.
22) Homeruns are not highlights
23) The Tour de France route changes every year. Riders are not informed where the route goes until the day of that stage. If you get lost: too bad.
24) Tiger starts two strokes over par
25) Playoff tournament for college football, no more Fiesta Kleenex Tidybowl Bowls!
26) Shorter hockey season. Ice hockey should not be played in April!
27) Change the win/loss determination for pitchers with the ability for the scorer to award the win or the loss and the ability for no pitcher to get the win.
28) No more no-calls on superstars in the NBA. Call consistently!
29) Olympic medal winners are automatically allowed back for the next Olympics to defend their championships. They do not have to qualify. They do not count against their nation if there is a certain number of athletes that are allowed to be sent from any one country for their event.
30) Test Test Test! Universal drug testing for all performance enhancing drugs including the Head Growth Hormone (Thanks Mudflaps)
31) No retro jerseys for certain teams (like the Padres and the Astros!)
32) If you can't find a sport to broadcast on your cable sports station, don't try to convince me that dominoes is a sport!
33) Where is the professional Ultimate Frisbee?
Feel free to add your own or disagree with any of these. Because, after all, they are just my opinion.
7 comments:
Marc,
Just skimmed this over. good stuff.
I'm surprised you haven't been comenting more on the Red Sox. I keep thinking you must have something to say about them (currently loosing 7-3 to BALTIMORE in the 6th.)
anyway, the real reason I'm writing is because I'm wondering how fatherhood is going for you! I can't access the chatterbox thing (it is banned here because of the school for M.K.s) so I don't know what you're thinking/feeling. Besides, I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to hear about Isaac. Just a couple of posts, every now and then, would be great!!!
Thanks,
Jenna
Generally I find that when we Americans have ideas on how to make soccer, the world's most popular sport, better we are being arrogant, maybe it should be how to make soccer more popular in the US. Having said that here are some ideas. Soccer seems to be defense first even at the cost of scoring so my suggestions. 1. Require teams to play 3 or 4 forwards to put more pressure on the defense and in relation limit defensive schemes to 2 players. 2. Say that 1 or 2 forwards can not get closer to their own goal than 25 to 30 meters.
Baseball
1. Way to many games (hockey and basketball as well), I always have felt the growth in popularity for football is partially because there is a premium of games you can see your teams play. Baseball - 114 hockey and basketball 58.
2. Like your idea about relegation to a lower league. Wouldn't work because lower teams are affilates of the MLB teams. How about dividing the league into two leagues 16 teams each tier 1 top 16 records tier 2 bottom 16 teams to start. Playoff's teir 1 8 teams There is value to playoffs for exciting city about sport. last 4 places in tier 1 playoff to stay out of the lower tier. Playoff's bottom tier 8 teams winner gets moved up.
And if you want to be in step with the rest of the world, start calling soccer its proper name: football.
Anyone watch the World Cup? :)
On the "fatherhood" vs. this-isn't what-my-blog-is-about discussion --... I don't see why you couldn't write the occassional post giving "just your opinion" on topics of fatherhood??? I know I'd read them :-) But that's just my opinion ;)
I'm with Lynn-nore on the fatherhood issue. Some of us (who are out of the country, perhaps!) are curious as to how you LIKE being a father - what has been easy, hard, fun, not so fun, etc. We want to hear any fatherly anecdotes you may have. I'm sure you could somehow wrap it up into some neat little political package. But I don't even think you need to do that. Really. Plus, since I can't get the Chatterbox, I'm really out of the loop. How 'bout one post a month or every 6 weeks? :)
Jenna, you aren't missing much by not being able to access the chatterbox. I guess the people have spoken, I'll have to find a way to sneak a "fatherhood" post on here.
Here! Here! Speak thee of fatherhood or deal with the angry masses! :P
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