Why Penalties and excessive replays are making games boring!

Bobhaze · Sep 17, 2019

I am not the kind of fan who complains about the refs being unfair or costing us games. I have always believed (and still do) that great football teams learn to overcome all obstacles. Most teams get some good calls and some bad ones.

Having said that, after two weeks of NFL football with its ever-growing rule book, I’m sick of watching a flurry of yellow flags and constant stops for TV replays that stop the game but end up proving nothing. The refs excessive calls and stoppage have become a much too large a part of the game. In fact, IMO, in its effort to make their game “almost perfect”, the NFL is making its games less interesting.

Here’s some evidence that the NFL’s excessive rules and officiating is making their game more boring:

Offensive holding calls are up 66% so far in 2019.
In 2018, there were 735 accepted offensive holding calls in the NFL. This year, we are on pace to have over 1,200 holding calls!
On a typical NFL game day in 2018, there were approximately 15 defensive holding calls in a game.
According to a Wall Street Journal study from 2010-2015, a typical 3 hour NFL game has only 11 minutes of actual game action. Wow.

I’m all for making games as well officiated as possible. But that starts with the understanding that as long as you have human beings both making the rules and officiating the actual game action, there will always be a few errors.

Having a flag fly every other play is not my idea of a good football game. Regardless of who is being penalized.

zrinkill · Sep 17, 2019

These last two games by the Cowboys have been very exciting.

Risen Star · Sep 17, 2019

I would reverse all rule changes of the last 10 years and abolish all replay.

Swanny · Sep 17, 2019

Risen Star said:
I would reverse all rule changes of the last 10 years and abolish all replay.

I would do CFL rules with 4 downs and a NFL sized field and goal posts.

AbeBeta · Sep 17, 2019

Calm down grandpa. It's gonna be ok.

kskboys · Sep 17, 2019

Bobhaze said:
I am not the kind of fan who complains about the refs being unfair or costing us games. I have always believed (and still do) that great football teams learn to overcome all obstacles. Most teams get some good calls and some bad ones.

Having said that, after two weeks of NFL football with its ever-growing rule book, I’m sick of watching a flurry of yellow flags and constant stops for TV replays that stop the game but end up proving nothing. The refs excessive calls and stoppage have become a much too large a part of the game. In fact, IMO, in its effort to make their game “almost perfect”, the NFL is making its games less interesting.

Here’s some evidence that the NFL’s excessive rules and officiating is making their game more boring:

Offensive holding calls are up 66% so far in 2019.

In 2018, there were 735 accepted offensive holding calls in the NFL. This year, we are on pace to have over 1,200 holding calls!

On a typical NFL game day in 2018, there were approximately 15 defensive holding calls in a game.

According to a Wall Street Journal study from 2010-2015, a typical 3 hour NFL game has only 11 minutes of actual game action. Wow.

I’m all for making games as well officiated as possible. But that starts with the understanding that as long as you have human beings both making the rules and officiating the actual game action, there will always be a few errors.

Having a flag fly every other play is not my idea of a good football game. Regardless of who is being penalized.

I thought it was just me. It really does appear that the NFL is being overrun w/ penalties.

As to the other, here's your problem, Bobs. Agendas. Or something of that nature. The ignored PI call against NO was simply crooked. Something is foul in the state of Denmark. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but that was so outlandish that fans started realizing that something crooked or something is going on, so they made a rule. That rule was specifically to quiet the talk about how crooked that call was. There's no way that call was missed, so the obvious bias or manipulation or whatever is happening was suddenly staring them straight in the face, w/ gadzillions on the line. So, they made a rule to "show" that they were honest and appalled at the non call.

Vanilla2 · Sep 17, 2019

Looks like a well thought out post

JoeKing · Sep 17, 2019

This latest PI review rule change can't survive in its current format. I don't know how it will evolve but it can't be slowing the game down as it does. The process has to be streamlined so that the play is reviewed & assessed in a faster manner. I like the MS Surface computers they have manned to run to the head judge when a play is reviewed. That was a good idea.

Bobhaze · Sep 17, 2019

AbeBeta said:
Calm down grandpa. It's gonna be ok.

Lol.

big dog cowboy · Sep 17, 2019

Bobhaze said:
Why Penalties and excessive replays are making games boring!

Don't forget too many commercials.

What I really hate is a commercial break, one play ran, then another commercial break.

It completely screws up the flow of the game.

Bobhaze · Sep 17, 2019

big dog cowboy said:
Don't forget too many commercials.

What I really hate is a commercial break, one play ran, then another commercial break.

It completely screws up the flow of the game.

Yeah the NFL would rather sell a beer after a kickoff than continue the game’s flow.

Jake · Sep 17, 2019

Bobhaze said:
I am not the kind of fan who complains about the refs being unfair or costing us games. I have always believed (and still do) that great football teams learn to overcome all obstacles. Most teams get some good calls and some bad ones.

Having said that, after two weeks of NFL football with its ever-growing rule book, I’m sick of watching a flurry of yellow flags and constant stops for TV replays that stop the game but end up proving nothing. The refs excessive calls and stoppage have become a much too large a part of the game. In fact, IMO, in its effort to make their game “almost perfect”, the NFL is making its games less interesting.

Here’s some evidence that the NFL’s excessive rules and officiating is making their game more boring:

Offensive holding calls are up 66% so far in 2019.

In 2018, there were 735 accepted offensive holding calls in the NFL. This year, we are on pace to have over 1,200 holding calls!

On a typical NFL game day in 2018, there were approximately 15 defensive holding calls in a game.

According to a Wall Street Journal study from 2010-2015, a typical 3 hour NFL game has only 11 minutes of actual game action. Wow.

I’m all for making games as well officiated as possible. But that starts with the understanding that as long as you have human beings both making the rules and officiating the actual game action, there will always be a few errors.

Having a flag fly every other play is not my idea of a good football game. Regardless of who is being penalized.

The third richest sports league in the world, the British Premier League, manages to play a 90 minute game in 2 hours. That's not an average, that's all games.

Somehow, they manage to make billions without stopping the game every 10 minutes (real time, not playing time) for 3 minutes of advertisements. Penalties and replays are a nuisance, but 60 minute NFL games take 3+ hours for one reason - commercials.

kskboys · Sep 17, 2019

Jake said:
The third richest sports league in the world, the British Premier League, manages to play a 90 minute game in 2 hours. That's not an average, that's all games.

Somehow, they manage to make billions without stopping the game every 10 minutes (real time, not playing time) for 3 minutes of advertisements. Penalties and replays are a nuisance, but 60 minute NFL games take 3+ hours for one reason - commercials.

How much do the players get paid?

Bobhaze · Sep 17, 2019

Jake said:
The third richest sports league in the world, the British Premier League, manages to play a 90 minute game in 2 hours. That's not an average, that's 99% of all games.

Somehow, they manage to make billions without stopping the game every 10 minutes (real time, not playing time) for 3 minutes of advertisements. Penalties and replays are a nuisance, but 60 minute NFL games take 3+ hours for one reason - commercials.

I have a brother in law who is from Scotland and he’s a big fan of the English Premier League. They make tons and tons of money with about half the TV advertising and their game officials are rarely on the screen more than a few times. NFL officials are rapidly getting more TV time than the players.

Shane612 · Sep 17, 2019

Replays are product of too many people taking this game way too serious. Plus, too much money is now at stake.

Bobhaze · Sep 17, 2019

kskboys said:
How much do the players get paid?

Big bucks. Most make more than NFL players in fact.

kskboys · Sep 17, 2019

Bobhaze said:
I have a brother in law who is from Scotland and he’s a big fan of the English Premier League. They make tons and tons of money with about half the TV advertising and their game officials are rarely on the screen more than a few times. NFL officials are rapidly getting more TV time than the players.

Yeah, I'm getting really sick of the constant flags.

Bobhaze · Sep 17, 2019

kskboys said:
Yeah, I'm getting really sick of the constant flags.

I was joking with one of my sons the other day while watching the Monday night Brown-Jets game to see how many consecutive plays could be run without a flag or replay stop. It’s usually about two plays if you’re lucky.

Hennessy_King · Sep 17, 2019

The fact all refs arent full time and make 250k a year for a billion dollar industry is about as dumb as it gets

buybuydandavis · Sep 17, 2019

Bobhaze said:
Here’s some evidence that the NFL’s excessive rules and officiating is making their game more boring:

Offensive holding calls are up 66% so far in 2019.

Has there been any rule change for offensive holding?

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