In My NFL...

[Discipline of Steel]

Lets play a game brothers. In this game we can fantasize about how the NFL would work if we were in charge. Anything goes...only rule is that each post has to start with the words...

In My NFL...players would be rewarded for knocking the snot out of an opposing team member. Players who force a stoppage of play by being slow to get up are declared ineligible for the rest of that possession. Players scoring a decleater or other spectacular hit receive bonuses on their next game check. Official stats are kept on such hits with NFL and team leaders highlighted in the same way as rushing, receiving, and interception leaders.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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In My NFL...the Pittsburgh Steelers have more Super Bowl victories than any other team.

Oh, wait. That's not just in my NFL. That is in everyone's NFL.

[MicroBioSteel]

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I like this.

In my NFL....Rookies can only make 1 million in their first year and veterans can make a max of 5 million a year guarnateed. League min remains $300K. The remainder of the salary is incentive based and determined by the league on a position by position basis. Whatever pay matrix is worked out it should allow all positions to get paid nearly equivalent values. There should also be team bonuses such as money paid to the best defenses and offenses as a whole. These team bonuses come out of the NFL coffers not the particular team.

In my NFL....the QB has the same protections afforded to other players on the field and playing through the whistle is encouraged not penalized.

[WoodleyofTroy]

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In my NFL...

There would be no rules on what can be challenged for review or not.

[Discipline of Steel]

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I like this.

In my NFL....Rookies can only make 1 million in their first year and veterans can make a max of 5 million a year guarnateed. League min remains $300K. The remainder of the salary is incentive based and determined by the league on a position by position basis. Whatever pay matrix is worked out it should allow all positions to get paid nearly equivalent values. There should also be team bonuses such as money paid to the best defenses and offenses as a whole. These team bonuses come out of the NFL coffers not the particular team.

In my NFL....the QB has the same protections afforded to other players on the field and playing through the whistle is encouraged not penalized.

I like the rookie cap!

In my NFL...Stadiums will be named after franchise heroes and not sold as advertisments. Imagine everyone filing into Art Rooney Stadium for next years AFC Championship game.

[MeetJoeGreene]

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In my NFL, no one could weigh more than 300 pounds.

In my NFL, there would be a rookie salary cap.

In my NFL, Harrisburg would be part of the Steelers TV area, NOT the stinkin, latecomers Ravens.

[Acero]

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In my NFL... bye weeks would begin on the 5th week of the schedule and end on the 12th week. 8 weeks of byes, each week an entire division gets a bye; the following week, all the division teams play each other, that way there are no advantages for coming off a bye.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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In my NFL... bye weeks would begin on the 5th week of the schedule and end on the 12th week. 8 weeks of byes, each week an entire division gets a bye; the following week, all the division teams play each other, that way there are no advantages for coming off a bye.

Simple. Effective. Realistic. That should be implemented yesterday.

[Herewegosteelers!]

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In my NFL if someone within an organization is involved in just one felony arrest, they would be banned from the league for life.

In my NFL there would be a salary structure that goes by how many years you have been in the league and then incentives. The more you reach, the more you make. But no $10 mil a year contracts. We are in a recession after all.

[Djfan]

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In my NFL...

Underappreciated math teachers would get lifetime seats at Heinz for any game they want, including playoffs.

Knuckle heads like Chad Johnson would be gone.

[ANPSTEEL]

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In my NFL-


Goodell would not be the commissioner.

Spygate, the Patriots, Belichick / his staff, and the NFL, would all be subjected to a federal investigation. Screw em. If it was the entire league in co-hoots about the scam, then we deserve to know.

There would be full time refs.

Holding would be holding. None of this “maybe that is holding crap”- or that holding occurred during a critical play, thus is holding, or that holding did not stop the defensive player from forward progress- bull ****. Define it, and call it consistently.


In the spirit of economic expansion-

I don’t like the idea of an 18 game regular season- for all of the obvious reasons.

But if it is inevitable, which I think is the case-

I would do it like this-

3 pre season games- use two, in part, to tune up the regular players, and one as 100% evaluation.

18 game regular season, with each team getting 2 byes. The byes would occur in two phases.

Phase 1: weeks 2- 10. Phase 2: weeks 11 – 19. No team would get a bye on the 1st or last week of the season.

The playoff format would remain limited to 4 division winners and 2 wild card teams.
After the wild card round, teams would be reseeded by overall record.


Lastly,

In my NFL, the Pittsburgh Steelers would have block numbers on their jerseys.

[WoodleyofTroy]

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In my NFL...

-There would be no TV timeouts.

-And Gus Johnson would do every Steelers game on CBS.

[Ozey74]

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In my NFL, all players that have police records would be recognized in a pregame ceremony at the 50 yrd line & their mug shots would be on the jumbo tron.

[Djfan]

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In my NFL, all players that have police records would be recognized in a pregame ceremony at the 50 yrd line & their mug shots would be on the jumbo tron.

Cinci would have to start games one hour early!

[Wolfhound45]

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In my NFL, we would give up these goofy division alignments that make no sense and develop regional divisions that would build some real rivalries. No concerns about local blackouts. If you don't sell your tickets to your fans, the opposing fans who live close to your city will take over your stadium.

Kind of like what Pittsburgh already does now. To the entire NFL.