[EagleUSA]

This would be a device that has mass — and for a football, significant mass. It will change the physics of the football.

What next?? Why don’t they just play football ??

[nikos1121]

I’m wondering why do we have umpires calling balls and strikes if you can have a computerized system doing it more accurately?

[discostu]

It’s only 3 grams, given that their allowed variance is 40 grams (410-450) it won’t have any functional change. They are just playing football. They just want to do it better.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This would be a device that has mass — and for a football, significant mass.

Nah. An RFID transponder weighs about 1/100th of an ounce. It would respond to a signal from a transmitter somewhere in the end zone...or perhaps at the top of either goal post.

Think of those little white anti-shoplifting gizmos you see inside blister packaging.

[Dr. Sivana]

What next?? Why don’t they just play football ??

Yes. They take this whole thing so damn seriously, as if it really affects the outcomes of people's lives (not counting big gamblers).

The more complez everything gets, the more time outs and possibilities for something to go wrong.

BAN helmet headsets.

BAN guys with radios and iPads watching the game from booth above.

The coaches have to be fast with hand signals, call a time out, shout out a play in code, or ... get this ... let the QB make the calls.

No more replays, bad calls stay called bad.

NO hands used by o-linemen, as in the mid 70s and earlier, as refs cannot see the holding that takes place ALL THE TIME if they don't make it otherwise.

There aren't too many field goals in the NFL, probably fewer than in the '70s, when there were maybe TWO kickers (Ray Guy, Mark Mosely) that were as good as a typical kicker today.

Cut down on the TV commercial timouts. A 60:00 game, with time outs and half-time should take three hours.

etc.

[TexasGator]

“This would be a device that has mass — and for a football, significant mass. It will change the physics of the football.”

Already used in soccer balls.