Football was meant to be played indoors?

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Originally Posted by Defensewins

Thank you CooleyFanOV, I have been saying the exact same thing for years on this sight. Godell and the NFL owners listen to fans that know nothing about football, suffer from ADD and do not understand the game fully. You have seen them, they talk and talk at a football party, barely pay attention and complain the the game is boring because there is not enough scoring. Then a team scores and they cheer because that is all they understand as good in a football game.
The subtle beauty in football like defense, running game, battle in the trenches, balanced attack. A one on one battle between lineman or LB vs. Rb is lost to them.
The NFL is quickly becoming flag football where throwing the ball is almost on every down. Sad.

The cold winter weather late in the season and in the playoffs is the only thing that is helping to keep some offenses balanced. The rules should be set NOT by a popularity contest or TV ratings. The majority of fans do not understand football fully.
The players should have a bigger say in setting the rules, not some out of touch owner or coach that has never played the game.

I was with you until the last statement.

The NFL Competition Committee - - the one that has the most say in terms of rules and rules interpretations - - is a much better procedural way to analyze the rules of the game and to adjust the rules of the game as compared to players.

Joe Gibbs and Mike Shanahan (just to keep this close to home) never "played the game" at the NFL level. Would you rather have them be part of a rule-changing process or would you rather it be Chad Ochocinco, Albert Haynesworth and JaMarcus Russell?