There are a lot of rules that changed after being in place for decades. One of those was implementing the forward pass, which came from the US. I consider myself a traditionalist as well, but don’t believe we should stick with traditions that aren’t good or don’t work or can be improved upon.
We differ in that I think the rule changes are a positive for the game and I don’t consider them Americanizing the game. That is just a conspiracy theory in my opinion.
As to traditionalists checking out and hurting the CFL financially, there’s been a lot of jawing, but I doubt much of that will materialize. Those who say this and actually check out before giving the rule changes a chance and seeing what they look like weren’t real CFL fans to begin with in my book. I think there is close to zero chance the league will walk back the rule changes, but there will almost certainly be tweaks and modifications as the league has said they anticipate being the case.
In my view the rule changes aren’t nearly as insulting to hard core fans and traditionalists as shutting down the league forum on one days notice. In spite of that many of us have migrated to this forum, a similar CFL based forum. If that doesn’t cause us hardcore fans to stop following the league I have my doubts that a few rule changes that don’t affect the basic integrity of the game to cause a mass exodus. Their loss if it does.
I was 100% with you on this one until I saw a missed FG in this year’s Vanier Cup shanked hard left on a 39 yard attempt driven in line-drive fashion ricocheting once through the endzone without a hell’s chance of being played.
I previously pushed for any kick landing in goal or touched by a return team player in goal to count for the rouge, but if the above is scorable then I can see why the league changed it to what we are getting next year. The other option is to make it a judgement calls on “playability” but I hate unecessaary subjectivity. We would be hanging officials out to dry on close calls.
Your last statement is ridiculous. It’s 3 down football that rewards failure, not 4 down. You only have to look at this year’s Vanier Cup. If it wasn’t changed one day a shank would win a Grey Cup as well and the CFL would be a worldwide Sportscenter laughing stock.
You are way in the minority on this one as almost all rouge proponents recognize this as a good change. I’m guessing that you would love to see a team win the Stanley Cup on a shot that just whizzes past the goalpost. Close, but good enough for the win for what you weren’t trying to do. That is the definition of rewarding failure.
If you watched the end of the Seahawks win last night
If the goal posts were on the goal line
That overtime game winning 2 point convert play would not have been there
Il y a en a eu au moins 2 la saison dernière. Une sur une passe lancée par MBT, et une autre par un autre adversaire. Je pense que c’était BLM, mais je peux me tromper.
Ceci dit, je suis tout à faire d’accord avec le fait que ce genre de jeu est rare au point de le rendre anecdotique, et que ça ne justifie pas en soi le déplacement des poteaux.
Maybe we could have another thread where we submit rule changes to vote on like NHL Rules Court with The Athletic’s Sean McIndoe, Sean Gentille, and Ian Mendes/Shayna Goldman/some other random 3rd wheel.
No it doesn’t. Those are the rules on a much smaller field that doesn’t have a one yard gap between players and the waggle doesn’t exist. No points for missing a kick.
A line drive over both lines landing perfectly in the endzone is much harder than just kicking the 39 yard FG. If teams drop two returners to prevent that then even harder. Seems foolish to give up all those returns because of a “one in a thousand maybe” Most kicks that miss with the posts at the back will either fly out or drop short and then bounce out. Give them the choice to play the short ones or give up the point. Much more intelligent football.
So add the stipes down each sideline to narrow the field and say BTW, since it’s now narrower lets play with 11 men instead of 12. Now by painting two stipes and making an new rule what do you have? Four down football with the waggle or three down football with the waggle?
All you need is another piece of paper if necessary or maybe two if you like four down and hate the waggle.
Eleven man and three down with the waggle might be interesting mind you! Lets do that! Paint two stipes and drop a man! Easy peasy.
