*Poll* Is the NFL hurting the entertainment value of the game?

but I think it is hurting its ego and credibility. Even with the ridiculous rules, I don’t believe it is losing any fans.

Big hits are an exciting part of the game, eventually a “common understanding” of what does and does not constitute a penalty on the QB hits will have to be established because right now its hit and miss.

Still what the NFL CANNOT allow itself to become is too violent of a sport that falls outside the venue of what main stream americans can tolerate. Ben’s post about face masks is a great point, another point for your research is the invention of the forward pass. It came about because football was being threatened with a ban by Teddy Roosevelt.

The entertainment value of football isnt strickly the ‘violence’. I LOVE FOOTBALL. The strategy and the mental game moreso than the fact that someone MAY OR MAYNOT get hurt on the field.. injuries are part of every sport and the fact that some now have to think about the way they throw themselves at other players doesnt affect the game all that much.. do i wish they left the rules alone? perhaps.. but violence is most certainly no the reason everyone ‘LIKES’ football….. dont say that in your report dude. (all of the sudden, mothers who hear about that will start pulling their sons off the team)

in 2010 it seemed like every game I watched stopped to have someone carted off. That wasn’t entertaining.

It is only a matter of time until someone is killed on the field. That won’t be entertaining and will cause all kinds of problems.

You can still have big hits without going helmet to helmet.