MMMMMMMULTIBALLLLLLL
Any sport, doesn’t really matter. Periodically during the game more balls start getting added into the playing field to spice things up, a la pinball tables.
Tennis, Football, Volleyball, Baseball, Basketball etc etc
imagining the absolute chaos that would result if an announcer shouted out “MULTIPUCK!” and extra pucks rained down on an NHL game
I’m for this.
I’m all in for crazy hockey. Boosters, bumpers, multipuck, moving goals, tilting ice, pucks made of different materials, sticks made of different materials, boxing gloves appear at centre ice giving the player who grabs them 30 second free pass for roughing.
Can we just finally have rocket skates on bigger rinks? Put some ramps in it and you’ve got full rocket league.
Isn’t that kinda what happens when the overtime keeps being extended?
edit: Never mind, apparently that’s a myth
Yellow card for faking an injury in soocer
As someone who is forced to watch baseball by their fanatical wife: the MLB should adopt most of the rules that the Savannah Bananas use, including a fan catching a foul ball counts as an out, trick plays, inning timer, etc.
Also stilts.
I would add that at any given time during a football game a fan can throw a new football on the field and two balls may be in-play at that time.
why?
All sports: ban gambling sponsorships. Ban teams from wearing gambling company logos or otherwise promoting gambling companies. Ban leagues and networks from incorporating gambling sponsorships into the programming.
I would also say ban gambling advertising entirely, but that’s a government law, not a sports one. With the sports rule change, gambling companies could still buy ad spots during as breaks. Just no commentators going “and now over to Lad Brokes so the punters can know the odds in this game”.
I’d happily go a step further and just ban advertising altogether.
All sports have an alternative league where performance enhancing drugs are mandatory to participate. That’s way more fun.
I wouldn’t go with “mandatory” but no doping tests would be quite something!
Soccer: yellow card for faking injuries (you can easily see players close to death that jumps us and run if no whistle is blown) and for protesting with the referee. Also, microphoned referee so that the whole audience can hear what they say (it will result in LOTS of red cards until respect is shown)
Basketball: intentional foul is two free throws and ball, three in the last 2 minutes
Football: proper helmets
I think a simple matter that if you roll around on the ground “in pain,” you get removed for medical attention and for the rest of the game for monitoring. If you’re injured, you’re injuried. If you’re being a whiny baby, you don’t deserve to be in the game. If you’re faking, you deserve to be ejected. But in all cases it comes to the same conclusion.
Oh, and this doesn’t automatically mean a foul. It’s not like a person can’t get hurt when no foul occurs. I hurt myself stepping out of bed in the morning.
Soccer: yellow card for faking injuries
Yellow card for simulation is already a rule. It’s just not applied all that consistently, possibly because it’s very hard to be sure that someone definitely wasn’t fouled and also was deliberately feigning anything, as opposed to genuinely being hurt or at least being knocked over by a nonetheless fair challenge.
Microphoned ref is becoming a thing now, but I absolutely hate it. Just like VAR it slows the game down horrendously and is not needed. Refs have the tools they need to run the game (including hand gestures and red cards, as you said). They don’t need to explain every last thing verbally.
I’ve maintained that for VAR, if they can’t figure out if there’s a mistake in the call within 30s then just uphold the prior decision. I can’t think of many situations where this would be enough of an issue
Yellow card for faking injuries
Make it red, and add a multi-match ban for repeat offenders. This is a culture problem in the sport that should have been dealt with years ago. I can only imagine how effective it would be to just send off a player for simulating. No questions asked. I would love to see the look on their face when they flop down and are immediately escorted off the pitch.
I’d go even further and say red card for taking a dive. Pretending to be struck/hit by another player in an attempt to get an advantage = cheating. Cheaters shouldn’t be allowed to play.
It got a little better after they started with video ref’ing, but 90’s Italian football still left its disgusting mark on the sport.
yellow card for faking injuries…and for protesting with the referee.
Huge yes. I support the others saying it could even be a red card. The astonishingly bad sportsmanship from soccer players compared to other sports is a big reason it will never be taken seriously in countries like Australia. Diving is nothing short of cheating, and it’s developed to such an extent that even children are frequently imitating the stars they see on TV and doing it in local club games.
In Australian football, which is played on cricket ovals ranging in size, but ~150 m long is a good ballpark figure, it takes very little talkback to the umpires (tbh, I’ve seen the rule overused in cases where it really didn’t seem appropriate) before they’ll march you 50 m. The opposing team gets not just a free kick, but a free kick from 50 metres closer to their offensive goal than where the original infringement took place.
Football: proper helmets
Assuming you mean gridiron football, I don’t know exactly what you mean (how are the current helmets not “proper”?), but I would say exactly the opposite. The illusion of safety the helmet gives is part of what leads to concussions and CTE.
I’d do away with the helmet entirely. Go bald, or with a simple scrum cap, like in rugby union and rugby league. Techniques will have to adapt somewhat, but that’s how all sports have to adapt to technological changes.
You’re essentially saying “ban gridiron football” because every aspect of the game would have to change if they weren’t wearing those pads. And it almost was banned in 1905 because college players were dying. That’s when the forward pass was introduced, diverging sharply from rugby.
The sport would absolutely have to change in some significant ways to adapt to that rule, but it could be done. Learn a more rugby-like style of tackling. Push from the line of scrimmage more like sumo wrestlers (a comparison I think I saw someone else in this thread bring up).
I am not what you’d call a fan of gridiron. I’m not American, and have only really been exposed to it in more than a very light “cultural osmosis” way over the last two or three years since I now know an American who refs local games here in Aus. But to be honest, I like the game. If I were American, I could easily see myself getting right into it. And I want the sport to keep the core elements that make it interesting and to be viable at a high level indefinitely. I just don’t see a future for the sport in the long run with CTE rates as high as they are and research continuing to show how bad the long-term effects even of repeated sub-concussive impacts can be. (Though on that topic, I have no idea how boxing plans to exist into the future. I can’t imagine it’ll still be a thing in 60 years unless it undergoes some pretty extreme changes.)
American Football: no time outs.
Play it just like soccer. Ref’s calls are final, and the clock doesn’t stop unless their is an injury.
It would make the game much more fun to watch, cut the runtime by two thirds, and force teams to hire athletes who can maintain vigorous activity for half an hour without dying.
For any pro sport known for rowdy, destructive fans - the clubs get to pay for the police and insurance expenses.
Oh, this would bankrupt the clubs, I hear you say? Oh no. Anyway…!
I’m not super into sports so I don’t know what the best specific rule to deal with this would be, but there needs to be more accountability for bad calls from referees.
American Football: Every time a player suffers a traumatic brain injury the owner takes a punch to the head from a professional heavyweight boxer.
I’d remove the size constraint on darts, so you could choose to use a lawn dart on your last turn, for example, to score 6352 points.
American football
I would remove defensive pass interference from the game. It’s been abused by offenses, they just throw it up to the guy way down field and if anyone touches him, first down there.
I would also get rid of the QB slide rule so many abuse for extra yards. You have the ball? You can get hit.
I’d completely remove the icing rule from hockey. I don’t really understand the point of stopping the game just because the puck went back to the other side of the rink. It’s not like it stops the defending team from dumping the puck out and purposely starting a face off.
College football: when you win the coin toss, you have 2 choices: kick or receive. No more deferrals.
