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I'm in complete disagreement. Keep the forward pass, and if anything the rule changes of late have made it too easy to pass. Get rid of challenges and tv timeouts. They burn more time than incomplete passes. If you're dying to shorten the game you could simply keep the clock running on an incomplete pass.He's got the Midas touch.
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The ball should be received at a point backward from where it was released. Anything else is a forward pass, no matter what a Leeds or Saints fan will tell you.www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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Just switch it to CFL rules/field size. We probably have a better brand of football here, albeit with inferior players."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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I was going to suggest that too, especially after he mentioned unlimited motion.Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.Comment
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When and how the officials stop the clock is not directly related to the introduction the forward pass. If speeding up the game is the goal, timing rules related to passes could be changed without returning to rugby. Charge a specific amount of time post pass, or restart the clock once the ball is placed, for example. The no-huddle offense sure seems to speed up the action. Not sure the networks or the fans want to speed up the game in all honesty. I know for certain the down linemen appreciate the blow, especially as the game progresses.
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Wouldn't that mean more passing, as the CFL has only 3 downs instead of 4?Originally posted by Kontiki
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Probably, but DanS' complaint doesn't seem to be the number of passes, but rather the completion rate and overall speed of the game.Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Wouldn't that mean more passing, as the CFL has only 3 downs instead of 4?"The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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Yes, my complaint isn't the number of passes per se. It's the completion rate and the time rules revolving around an incomplete pass that seems like a problem to me. What I see is a lot of people get down a couple of touchdowns and their only way of getting back into the game is passing downfield all the time. Well, they only complete 40% of their passes of this type, and the clock stops at the other 60% that they don't complete, so you have a boring game. If the clock continued to run on an incomplete pass, for instance, the risk/reward for a pass would be different for those who have low incompletion rates.
Of course, you could argue that we are entering an era of higher completion rates due to specialized practices like skelly games. We could discuss this to see if it's so.Last edited by DanS; August 11, 2006, 11:21.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Originally posted by cronos_qc
Forward have to be banned in email...
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No, soccor's just boring.Originally posted by DanS
I consider this an anomaly of American sports due to inefficient brand advertising making repetition necessary.
Keep the forward pass. Even with 50% < completion rates, it's an exciting game. When your team is down and it's passing downfield and not completing, you're on the edge of your seat.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I"M SO FAR OFF TEH EDGE OF MY SEAT, MY FACE IS ON TEH TV
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Re: Should the forward pass be disallowed?
BURN IN HELL, HERETIC!!!Originally posted by DanS
getting rid of the forward pass?
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Re: Re: Should the forward pass be disallowed?
I dont want you to burn in Hell, HeavensOriginally posted by Odin
BURN IN HELL, HERETIC!!!
No!
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Heretic indeedy
This is what you would be reduced to seeing
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