The NFL released a statement today or, yesterday saying that it is considering changing the field size. By making it a wider configuration. It is confusing to me that the NFL would release such a statement at this time. What are they hoping to gain at this juncture? Have they done ALL the research to know how this will affect the games? Will this change; change the way referees call the games? By its appearance it looks like the NFL is trying to make the game safer and, take a little steam off of some of the hits that can happen.
It would be prudent to take extensive surveys of fans and, to see what the players think of this. This could be a significant detriment to the game. As well as on the flip side this could make the game that much better. Hopefully, for the NFL's sake this isn't like the replacement ref situation; where they just look bad. Roger Goodell has been particularly arrogant on one specific front that bothers me. That is that he comes through and, makes a lot of decisions thinking that the fans will always watch football. And, that the NFL can do just about anything and, the demand of the game will continue. He may or, may not be right about that. However, I think a change of field size has the potential to be both good and, bad equally.
We'll see where this story goes from here. I am looking forward to hearing more about this in the future.
Paul E. Spors 2-12-2013
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