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Titans Tackle Taylor Lewan Says NFL Should Let Players Fight Like They Allow In Hockey
dailysnark.com ^ | Feb. 9, 2017 | NFLMemes

Posted on 02/10/2017 2:45:20 PM PST by PROCON


One of the most pressing topics that the NFL league office will discuss this offseason is how to either increase, or at least stop the slide in ratings seen over the course of the 2016-2017 season. This may be a good start.

Tennessee Titans offensive tackle Taylor Lewan thinks the NFL should allow brief unmediated fighting similar to what the NHL allows.

~SNIP~

The only foreseeable issues would be punching a player with a helmet and facemark with your bare knuckles is not typically a good idea. Also, the NHL allows fighting generally until one player goes down to the ice, which with no ice, would pose an issues on when to call it.

Then again, think about all the fans who look forward to fights in a hockey game. Now add 6 inches and 100 pounds to each guy. Talk about exciting.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: fights; nfl; ratings
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To: PROCON

If two players get in a fight, then anyone else that gets involved is ejected and suspended for the next game with no appeal. Anyone that leaves the bench gets tossed and serves a two game suspension with no appeal, and the coaching staff gets double that. Add in some realistic fines like a % of their salary which doubles for third man in and triples for benches, and then let them fight.


21 posted on 02/10/2017 4:03:53 PM PST by yawningotter
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To: PAR35

LOL! Excellent!


22 posted on 02/10/2017 4:10:22 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: PROCON

There seems to be an endless stream of idiotic ideas lately...

Multi millionaires duking it out on the field screwing up their careers by getting injured makes real sense.../ S


23 posted on 02/10/2017 4:15:20 PM PST by Popman
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To: PROCON

These freaks are nothing more than modern day gladiator wannabes.

Might as well arm them and let em’ fight on the field.


24 posted on 02/10/2017 4:25:56 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: PROCON
Roller skates and motorcycles

Jonathan!Jonathon!Jonathon!

25 posted on 02/10/2017 4:26:31 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit

HA, “Rollerball”, 1975!


26 posted on 02/10/2017 4:30:36 PM PST by PROCON (Defending the Border isn't a Political Option, it's a Constitutional Obligation ~ Rick Perry)
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To: PROCON

Long ago I read a book about football where each team was allowed to have a sniper with one bullet to use during the game. That might make the game more interesting. (sarc)


27 posted on 02/10/2017 4:31:23 PM PST by Jay Redhawk (Diversity for the sake of diversity is just flat out stupidity.)
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To: PROCON

You’ve got brawn, Thug, but you sure are stupid.


28 posted on 02/10/2017 4:37:08 PM PST by alstewartfan (Old admirals who feel the wind Are never put to sea. Al Stewart from Past Present & Future)
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To: Jay Redhawk

A modest proposal for sure, but snipers beware: Roger Goodell may sentence you to a two game suspension!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b3y831EOs8


29 posted on 02/10/2017 4:40:57 PM PST by alstewartfan (Old admirals who feel the wind Are never put to sea. Al Stewart from Past Present & Future)
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To: PROCON

Hockey fights are entertainment for primal mouth breathers.


30 posted on 02/10/2017 4:58:47 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Many of the gladiators were slaves. Watching the NFL, sometimes it seems things have not changed with in two millennia.


31 posted on 02/10/2017 5:01:47 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
These freaks are nothing more than modern day gladiator wannabes.

hmmmmm.......I like where this is going. "Detroit Lions" and "Chicago Bears".... we can release real lions and real bears onto the field. The animals can wear shock collars and the endzones can have invisible fences around it.

We can liven it up and let packs of feral dogs from Chicago and Detroit loose if lions and bears are in short supply.

I'd stop boycotting the NFL if I could see a bunch of feral dogs with a fighting chance against Michael Vick.

32 posted on 02/10/2017 5:08:45 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: PROCON

If you want less fruity celebration dancing and chest slapping displays after routine plays let them fight. One of my big problems with the NFL is that the nature of the modern rules combined with replay from a million camera angles and only playing 16 games takes any self policing away from players. So the cool players can’t stop the jerks from being showboating jerks.

There’s a reason why no one moonwalks down to first after drawing a walk or does a hulk pose with chest slapping after catching a infield pop up.

Freegards


33 posted on 02/10/2017 5:09:48 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: PROCON

Cut the crap and go straight to gladiator combat.


34 posted on 02/10/2017 5:49:40 PM PST by henkster
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To: neocon1984
I also started in the six team, old [Madison Square @ 8th Ave] Garden era. My father started taking me in the early-mid 50s when I was about eight years old. By the time I was in eighth grade I was also taking the train in from LI together with friends. When I went off to college 150 miles away my father started getting season tickets pretty much to lure me back to NYC, and it worked. That's when I started to go to 30+ games a year, pretty regularly driving myself or taking a bus down and back all in the same evening. I'm sure I saw Mikita and Hull in person dozens of times.

Besides the fighting I eventually realized that I was watching other people work and I cared more about the outcome of the games than the players did, which was stupid. I still think it's a great game, but only once the teams reach the Stanley Cup semis.

ML/NJ

35 posted on 02/10/2017 6:31:18 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: PROCON

I’ve always thought soccer matches would be more lively if players were allowed to carry hickory tire knockers.


36 posted on 02/10/2017 8:51:21 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: VietVet876

The more things change, the more they stay the same.


37 posted on 02/11/2017 12:04:42 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Repeat Offender

They might start making money if we played by your rules.
LOL!


38 posted on 02/11/2017 12:07:53 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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