Safeties and Holding Calls

[EastCoastNiner]

I'm not sure I understand your analogy. If you get rid of walks, wouldn't the pitcher just never pitch over the plate and wait for the batter to swing at a bad pitch? Plus baseball is a slow game as is, last thing you need to do is make is slower.

 

I guess the analogy works better with FT's. In football, if you are prevented from scoring a TD, you can kick a FG. In basketball, if you fail to score because you are fouled, you get FT's. I know one of them is because a foul is committed, but the point remains.

[Warren2ThaG]

You can't remove FG's, kickers from college go to the NFL and do be thangs. aka Vineeintnienrirri thruw tha snow

[Guru]

I guess the analogy works better with FT's. In football, if you are prevented from scoring a TD, you can kick a FG. In basketball, if you fail to score because you are fouled, you get FT's. I know one of them is because a foul is committed, but the point remains.

I see your point and it does make sense to an extent.

 

Any further arguing will just be "I'm right" "No, I'm right" so unless you have anymore to say I'll stop here.

[fish7718]

Completely disagree. FG's all such a strategy to the game of NFL. Removing them would make the game less exciting imo. I know a lot of games are decided by field goals. Understand, behind those field goals are the teams setting up the field goals...

[Guru]

Completely disagree. FG's all such a strategy to the game of NFL. Removing them would make the game less exciting imo. I know a lot of games are decided by field goals. Understand, behind those field goals are the teams setting up the field goals...

 

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Lol, seriously though... it's just your opinion vs. mine. No team goes onto the field looking for a FG, they "strategize" for a touchdown and settle for a FG. (Unless it's overtime but that's a different story)

[Lkr]

So FG's excite you? Obviously FGs will never be removed but they can be easily. All of these analogies make no sense. In basketball and soccer you have fouls. Without fouls the whole game would change. Getting rid of the ground rule double? What happens when the ball bounces and goes into the stands? Re-do? Wtf. How would the game actually change besides teams being forced to go for it on 4th down?

you would have fouls, just no FTs. take the ball out of bounds. ground rule doubles become home runs. home runs are more exciting, that has been proven

[fish7718]

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Lol, seriously though... it's just your opinion vs. mine. No team goes onto the field looking for a FG, they "strategize" for a touchdown and settle for a FG. (Unless it's overtime but that's a different story)

Plenty of teams go on the field looking for a FG sometimes. Especially in tie games. The strategy I meant behind field goal is once you get down in the 30 yard line ish teams may take less risks knowing they have 3 points if they don't score a TD. Either way I can't imagine the NFL without a field goal, sounds pretty silly imo considering most teams score a large amount of their points off them.