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  • Goodell: NFL may consider scrapping PATs, adding excitement to TDs

    01/21/2014 10:03:45 AM PST · by nikos1121 · 176 replies
    Fox Sports ^ | 1/21/2014 | Sam Gardner
    Earlier this season, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick told reporters that extra points in football were boring because they have become so automatic, and now it appears commissioner Roger Goodell might agree. In fact, on Monday, Goodell appeared on NFL Network’s “Total Access,” and took things a step further than Belichick, indicating that the league’s competition committee could consider eliminating the PAT altogether. “One of the things the committee does besides looking first at the safety issues … (is) looking to see, ‘Are there any plays in the game that, really, are not consequential?’” Goodell told host Rich Eisen....
  • Why Soccer Is Better Than Football

    05/18/2012 2:47:30 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 142 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 18, 2012 | BRUCE ORWALL
    LONDON—Words can barely describe the jaw-dropping season finale staged by England's Premier League last weekend, but that didn't stop every pundit, Twitter wag and pub crawler in Britain from searching many beers into Sunday night for new ways to say "best season ever." The day started at 3 p.m. with seven of the league's 20 teams still playing for something important: not just the championship, but also to secure berths in a prestigious Europe-wide competition and the right to stay in the Premier League at all, under rules that annually demote the weakest teams. It wasn't settled until minutes before...