If you could add any new rule to a sport or game you enjoy, what rule and why?
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As someone who is forced to watch baseball by their fanatical wife: the MLB should adopt most of the rules that the Savannah Bananas use, including a fan catching a foul ball counts as an out, trick plays, inning timer, etc.
Also stilts.
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Baseball: Strictly timed innings.
The Savanna Bananas added a game timer, and it is great.
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MMMMMMMULTIBALLLLLLL
Any sport, doesn't really matter. Periodically during the game more balls start getting added into the playing field to spice things up, a la pinball tables.
Tennis, Football, Volleyball, Baseball, Basketball etc etc
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imagining the absolute chaos that would result if an announcer shouted out "MULTIPUCK!" and extra pucks rained down on an NHL game
I'm for this.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Isn't that kinda what happens when the overtime keeps being extended?
edit: Never mind, apparently that's a myth
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Soccer: yellow card for faking injuries (you can easily see players close to death that jumps us and run if no whistle is blown) and for protesting with the referee. Also, microphoned referee so that the whole audience can hear what they say (it will result in LOTS of red cards until respect is shown)
Basketball: intentional foul is two free throws and ball, three in the last 2 minutes
Football: proper helmets
I think a simple matter that if you roll around on the ground "in pain," you get removed for medical attention and for the rest of the game for monitoring. If you're injured, you're injuried. If you're being a whiny baby, you don't deserve to be in the game. If you're faking, you deserve to be ejected. But in all cases it comes to the same conclusion.
Oh, and this doesn't automatically mean a foul. It's not like a person can't get hurt when no foul occurs. I hurt myself stepping out of bed in the morning.
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I would add that at any given time during a football game a fan can throw a new football on the field and two balls may be in-play at that time.
why?
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All sports: ban gambling sponsorships. Ban teams from wearing gambling company logos or otherwise promoting gambling companies. Ban leagues and networks from incorporating gambling sponsorships into the programming.
I would also say ban gambling advertising entirely, but that's a government law, not a sports one. With the sports rule change, gambling companies could still buy ad spots during as breaks. Just no commentators going "and now over to Lad Brokes so the punters can know the odds in this game".
I'd happily go a step further and just ban advertising altogether.
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yellow card for faking injuries…and for protesting with the referee.
Huge yes. I support the others saying it could even be a red card. The astonishingly bad sportsmanship from soccer players compared to other sports is a big reason it will never be taken seriously in countries like Australia. Diving is nothing short of cheating, and it's developed to such an extent that even children are frequently imitating the stars they see on TV and doing it in local club games.
In Australian football, which is played on cricket ovals ranging in size, but ~150 m long is a good ballpark figure, it takes very little talkback to the umpires (tbh, I've seen the rule overused in cases where it really didn't seem appropriate) before they'll march you 50 m. The opposing team gets not just a free kick, but a free kick from 50 metres closer to their offensive goal than where the original infringement took place.
Football: proper helmets
Assuming you mean gridiron football, I don't know exactly what you mean (how are the current helmets not "proper"?), but I would say exactly the opposite. The illusion of safety the helmet gives is part of what leads to concussions and CTE.
I'd do away with the helmet entirely. Go bald, or with a simple scrum cap, like in rugby union and rugby league. Techniques will have to adapt somewhat, but that's how all sports have to adapt to technological changes.
You're essentially saying "ban gridiron football" because every aspect of the game would have to change if they weren't wearing those pads. And it almost was banned in 1905 because college players were dying. That's when the forward pass was introduced, diverging sharply from rugby.
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Yellow card for faking an injury in soocer
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You're essentially saying "ban gridiron football" because every aspect of the game would have to change if they weren't wearing those pads. And it almost was banned in 1905 because college players were dying. That's when the forward pass was introduced, diverging sharply from rugby.
The sport would absolutely have to change in some significant ways to adapt to that rule, but it could be done. Learn a more rugby-like style of tackling. Push from the line of scrimmage more like sumo wrestlers (a comparison I think I saw someone else in this thread bring up).
I am not what you'd call a fan of gridiron. I'm not American, and have only really been exposed to it in more than a very light "cultural osmosis" way over the last two or three years since I now know an American who refs local games here in Aus. But to be honest, I like the game. If I were American, I could easily see myself getting right into it. And I want the sport to keep the core elements that make it interesting and to be viable at a high level indefinitely. I just don't see a future for the sport in the long run with CTE rates as high as they are and research continuing to show how bad the long-term effects even of repeated sub-concussive impacts can be. (Though on that topic, I have no idea how boxing plans to exist into the future. I can't imagine it'll still be a thing in 60 years unless it undergoes some pretty extreme changes.)
