do you think the nfl rules are stupid?

Question

the players arent allowed to have any fun without being fined.they run back to the huddle after scoring touchdowns.thats bullshit.these anti taunting rules have got to go.furthermore,espn needs to quit reporting every little fistfight that goes on and making huge situations out of miniscule crap.players make too much money but thats a seperate issue.how would you like it if your boss at your job wrote you a fine over a fight you had outside some bar?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure your the one being stupid here. These are professional athletes, professional FOOTBALL athletes at that. The NFL is the most watched sport in the US. Kids idolize these guys, they act like them, they mimic them, and most of all they want to be EXACTLY like them. If these guys are running around starting fights and getting in trouble with the law, what do you think its going to do to the kids that idolize those athletes? They're going to get in trouble themselves because these people they look up to can do it and not get in trouble, so they'll think its alright for them to do the same thing. Yeah, its a stretch at times, but it happens. As public figures, they need to act like an ideal citizen where ever they go, it comes with their job of being a professional athlete. Same thing goes with the taunting rule. Most school sports and recreational sports emphasize sportsmanship, but what is to keep kids from tauting if there are no examples of that in professional sports. These may seem like stupid rules and regulations but there are reasons why they're in place.

Answer 2

There has to be a balance between allowing the players to celebrate and allowing the players to taunt the other team. Celebration is as much a part of sport as competition, yet many players, Terrell Owens for example, take it way too far.

Further, the NFL has a vested interest in keeping its league as free from criminals as possible. The little boat ride taken by the Vikes and the continuing sage of the the Bengals and the Titan's Pacman Jones smudge the league's image. Smudge it enough and fewer people watch. If fewer people watch, TV revenues, which allow the league to operate at a level unmatched by any other sport, decrease. Also, cities and states stop voting to pay millions for stadiums.

The league, compared to most employers, does a pretty good job of policing its players. At any given time there are more than 1700 players on NFL rosters. Only a handful get into trouble, and considering we are talking about relatively young people with large financial resources and huge amounts of temptation, I think they do a yeoman job.

Back to the celebration thing, if T.O. is allowed to celebrate as he wishes when he catches his 14 or 15 TD passes per season, should he not be made to sit in a dunce chair when he drops the same amount of passes each year?

Answer 3

The rules in the NFL are there for each player to abide by & if it wasn't for the NFL or any other Major Sports Leauge that would have rules for the teams to abide by, then it would be meaningless for anyone to understand. The rules are there in the NFL as a means to protect the players & to penalize a team if a player is caught doing something on the field & is considered a minor infraction. The players are allowed to have fun if they abide & follow the rules of the game so that no one gets hurt & no one has to pay a hefty fine for a infraction of the rules they broke on the field. It seems that you have an issue about this so take it up to the NFL & make your point about this. As for the NFL Rules, they're not stupid, it's a way to make each player to be aware of their safety & to be aware of others as well.

Answer 4

I think there should be more. I want to watch football, not goal post humping, stupid dancing etc. These guys are professionals? Of what? Stupidity? I love it when some idiot breaks a rule and get fined and his team penalized. But you know what? They have the money and love to blow it. They don't give a rat's *** about their teammates or teams. It is all about them. Go watch wrestling if you want to see that crap. As for the other part if it hurts when you do that don't do it! They know they are going to get into trouble so why do it? Rules are rules, it was all explained to them when they took the job. If you don't like it go work for minimum wage. If you owned a company would you like it to have a jail bird drug user reputation? Your merchandise would go to ****. The NFL will start losing sponsors over this pretty soon. Get a clue!

Answer 5

I halfway agree with you. If everybody who got busted for drugs or got in fight got fired from there jobs the world would go in to chaos.

Celebrating and taunting should be allowed to an extent. But if you make a sack or catch a ten yard pass you should not act like you won the Super Bowl.

The stupidest rule is how they overprotect the QB. Just wait it will be a flag soon.

Answer 6

The no celebration rules and no tauting rules are great and long overdue. The 'game' is football not 'hey look at me, look at me'. You scored a touchdown, you made a great play, you stopped a guy on 4th and 1, great, you did your job, a job you are being paid millions to do. Have some class and dignity and do your job again the next play. I do not watch football to see the players make asses and fools of themselves and I don't think any football purist do. You want to watch all the crap, tune into the arena league.

Answer 7

However, your boss isn't getting blamed for it in a regular job. It's the player's job to not make the organization look bad. I agree with the on field stuff, but these players are role models to little kids, whether they like it or not and don't need to be getting in fights, especially considering it will be on ESPN. The players just need to have more self-control. It isn't that hard.

Answer 8

Well, I could deal with it if I was getting paid that way and knew that I was in the public eye. Sports like this are spectator sports which would mean people are interest in the participants. No one wants to hear about Joe blow janitor who got in a fight, but they do want to know if it was their starting corner back.

Answer 9

I think the players should be allowed to do touchdown celebrations, but the rules I'd like to see changed the most are the overtime rules. I'd like NFL overtime to be run like college football overtime.

Answer 10

The rules need to stay. You should watch hockey. They can beat the crud out of just about anybody and you can watch them play 2 min later after they get out of the sin bin.