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If they did want to lower the odds of making long kicks it would be easy enough to calculate how much lower the success rate would be at different widths / heights by reviewing kicks from the past x years. It wouldn't be precisely accurate as kickers would be expected to be able to tighten where they'd put the ball with narrower goal posts &/or a higher crossbar, but it would be a good starting point. They also could move the goalposts further back if they saw this as a particularily big issue. They were moved back from the goalline in the 70's. Move them 5 yards further back and then getting to the 33 gives you a 55 yard attempt.

Apparently $50MM initially according to the article.

Which probably stems from so many of them storing their heads near their coccyges.

Except those eyeballs are located outside the US and don't factor in for Nielsen ratings. Which are the ones the league really cares about. Expanding to TO is more like expanding to London rather than the last push into the Carolinas and North Florida.

It'll be interesting to see how many fewer penalties Wood takes next year with at least 1 upgraded guard next to him. After Urbik's play seemed to deteriorate, Wood's penalty count seemed to go up significantly. Tough to stop your own guy and help the guy on each side of you at the same time.

That would go against what they do now. They currently reseed by seed (if 3 and 4/5 make it out, they are seeded 3 & 4 of remaining teams; and 4/5 & 6 become 3 & 4 respectively); that is how I would expect them to reseed in the new system (so if 2, 4, & 6 come out, they become 2, 3, & 4).

to the bolded. To the rest: fair enough.

I'd put it more at 50-50, as his hands never stopped moving before the ball was on the turf. Either way, whichever way they'd've called it on the field, I'd expect the ruling wouldn't be overturned.

Quite possibly, as he likely wouldn't have been trying to put the ball down and begin his celebration asap.

Not disagreeing with your comments, just noting a certain irony that Houston wouldn't sell out the dome in the Glanville/Pardee era unless Pittsburgh or the Pokes were in town w/out Randall's buying the last few hundred / several thousand seats and that was in the midst of a 6-7 year playoff run.

Except that play isn't set up the way Beerball described it. He set the ball on the ground (intentionally, I'll grant you) at the end on the same motion that he'd caught the ball with. Though I might agree that he clearly intentionally 'dropped' the ball, he didn't take steps while already in possession of the ball. He got his feet on the ground in the process of making the catch. There didn't appear to be any steps after he'd caught the ball, the steps were made while the catch was being made. Which is a significant difference IMHO.

An example of where the receiver had control of the ball while taking steps and then lost the ball after hitting the turf and not getting the TD isn't immediately coming to mind. Do you have an example? What you have described seems more analogous to a runner that was already bobbling a ball before crossing the goalline. The runner wouldn't be awarded the TD unless he recontrolled the ball after crossing the line. Once the ball is controlled in the endzone, the play is dead. On a catch the ball isn't controlled until the catch is complete. Running a few strides without bobbling it would complete the catch and establish control.

If it has been controlled for a couple of steps, then there would have been the proverbial 'football move' and the receiver is now a runner and it's a touchdown when he crosses the line.

But there is a difference between the 2. The runner has possession of the ball once it is handed to him and if he maintains that possesion until the ball reaches the goaline, it is a touchdown. The reciever doesn't have possession until he has 'completed the catch.' As soon as he has possession and the ball has reached the goalline, it is a touvhdown. If simply touching the football, rather than controlling it were the rule (as you seem to be advocating), then James Hardy would still have a job.

Until the NO game, the Bills were tied or in the lead in the 4th quarter of every single game. And they were in that spot in at least 2 more (if not 3 or 4 more) games they lost later this year. How much milking the clock contributed to those per drive stats?

When OJ got his 2,003, didn't he initially only have 2,001 but after the official stats were in it was bumped to 2,003? If Manning threw a lateral, Breese should still hold the record.

Then you would say 'no' as that's the way it happened.

Hasn't she been offering that and haven't they been doing that since 2007?

Back in the '80's many union contracts were tied to the minimum wage. Is that still the case? If so, isn't this more about the D's core constituency than the high school kid w/ an entry level job?

You sure about that? I'm pretty sure Ralph was insistant that the Orchard Park stadium be at least 80,000 when it was built.

You do realize he was playing w/ 1 functional arm that game, right?

Only in the regular season. In the playoffs, there are only 2 minor changes from regulation: 1st goal wins it & no TV commercial breaks.

But back before the kickoff was moved to the 30 the split was pretty close to 50-50. IIRC, it was 48%-52% with the team getting the ball winning slightly less than 1/2 the time. This is an elaborate solution, beyond what was neccessary.

In fairness, that does smell better than the rest of the town.

Heat Miser isn't KJI, he's FAR more sinister. He's the one they call 'the hoodie.'