What realistic sports rule would you change?

**PAULYPOKER** · 10-07-20, 10:27 PM

Refs already ignoring most DB's holding one of the WR arms throughout ball arriving.

**Judge Crater** · 10-07-20, 10:34 PM

Yellow or red cards for flopping in soccer (enforced)

**Unrivaled** · 10-07-20, 10:35 PM

Nfl no ties, each team gets a possession and must go for 2.

Nfl less penalties for pass interference and holding, let them play.

NHl playoffs, get rid of ticky tack penalties and let them play.

All leagues, if refs screw up bad they get suspended without pay for a month. Hold them accountable for example the Patriots pick on Monday that was called incomplete.

**maggiethebestdog** · 10-07-20, 10:48 PM

Black players have to wear weights so white players can run as fast and jump as high

**7deuceoff$uit** · 10-08-20, 12:10 AM

Football- shorten the play clock. 32 second clock.

Baseball- electronic strike zone

Basketball- players get ejected for flopping

Soccer- there should be an official time keeper who runs the clock. There's absolutely no reason in this day and age that everyone watching shouldn't know exactly how much time is left.

**hehfest** · 10-08-20, 12:42 AM

Not sure if mentioned but NO MORE automatic 1st downs on holding calls by defense in football. It can be 3rd and 45 and they can call a holding penalty 6 yards passed the line of scrimmage and they get a 1st down. You want to see defenses with a fair chance again, then its a 5 yard penalty and goes to 3rd and 40 instead. That has to be the most ridiculous penalty in all of sports. Without a doubt.

And it happens in every single game. 3rd and 15. holding defense. automatic 1st down. So, when the offense gets holding they should be automatically forced to 4th down and loss of 10 yards regardless if its 1st down or 2nd down?

**JIBBBY** · 10-08-20, 12:53 AM

Get rid of all this BLM crap in sports.. It's a hoax..

All people today get treated fairly under the justice of law.. This isn't the 50's and 60's anymore.. This is 2020..

If you are Black, White, Brown or Yellow in America and breaking the law you will get dealt equally by police when you resist most of the time.. Pain you will get!!! I like that and it's called justice..

Obey and comply to the law and just chill when being arrested and YOU WILL have your day in court.. LIVE TO PLAY ANOTHER DAY..

Just that simple.. TRUTH!!! Best option always..

Resist and you could get blasted..

**PAULYPOKER** · 10-08-20, 01:30 AM

NFL *uninfluenced* Fan governed Replays.....
Extremely strict appointed selection committee beyond any US Court Jury selection process
All corruption solved instantly...
as US Courts still uses the same guidelines that were written when slavery was legal
*My plan to end Referee corruption is hidden*
Will reveal when you ask the right question.
and women were to be bare foot in the kitchen while raising their children.
or simply just find it threaded throughout this post Lol.

Sorry if you can't understand what I'm trying to say as my new Meds for my
CTE has some side effects that I didn't notice but friends/family
brought a different pattern of behaviors to my attention..

It's very hard to interpret my thoughts from mind to paper as to what I know
is right but transferring my thoughts into comprehendible sentences is
becoming very difficult for me as of late.
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To be concluded

**DiggityDaggityDo** · 10-08-20, 01:43 AM

Old and fat baseball managers wearing uniforms.

Why?

**Enkhbat** · 10-08-20, 04:02 AM

3 timeouts for NBA teams per half, just like in the NFL. End of NBA games are unbearable. Too many timeouts.

In the NFL I don't like automatic 1st downs for 5 yard holding penalties. Just penalize them 5 or 10 yards and replay the down.

**HAPPY BOY** · 10-08-20, 04:57 AM

Pass interference= 15 yards not spot of the foul like in NCAA

**Darkside Magick** · 10-08-20, 06:06 AM

If a player in Soccer get a straight red card.... Make it a automatic penalty kick.. Player is ejected and be replaced keeping it 11vs11

**Judge Crater** · 10-08-20, 08:34 AM

Originally posted by 7deuceoff$uit

Football- shorten the play clock. 32 second clock.

Baseball- electronic strike zone

Basketball- players get ejected for flopping

Soccer- there should be an official time keeper who runs the clock. There's absolutely no reason in this day and age that everyone watching shouldn't know exactly how much time is left.

Absolutely correct, no reason not to know the time left in a soccer game

**Itsamazing777** · 10-08-20, 08:50 AM

Holding by linemen in football reduced to 5 yards

**Judge Crater** · 10-08-20, 10:26 AM

Electronic sensors for field goals

**The General** · 10-08-20, 10:30 AM

No celebrations of any sorts when you're losing.

**carolinakid** · 10-08-20, 10:39 AM

i hate that crap when the defense runs to the end zone and do a posing thing after a turnover.this should be stop.

**Otters27** · 10-08-20, 10:56 AM

Great Thread.

Let's go with referees in Tennis at all levels. No more calling your own shots. Too many cheaters out there

**7deuceoff$uit** · 10-08-20, 11:01 AM

Originally posted by carolinakid

i hate that crap when the defense runs to the end zone and do a posing thing after a turnover.this should be stop.

if they didn't automatically review all turnovers, they could just spot the ball after the play is over and start the play clock. That would nip this in the butt right away.

**Chi_archie** · 10-08-20, 11:10 AM

everyone get off my lawn immediately forever

we replace bean balls with frat like paddling trains. If a guy wants to flip his bat and take a 35 sec trip around the bases after watching his 450 foot homer that is fine.... but after crossing home plate the opposing team makes him crawl through their straddled legs while they paddle him

No dunking!

repeal all targeting penalties in football

place kickers and punters must be actual football players, not foreign soccer plays. As such they need to be involved in a minimum of 8 snaps on either side of the ball throughout the game.

soccer referees get cattle prods, and if a soccer player does an obvious flop, he can walk up to him and cattle prod him in the nuts

**capitalist pig** · 10-08-20, 11:36 AM

Go to electronic calling of balls and strikes, the technology is available. You got to keep the home plate umpire for other reasons. The ball/strike zone is all over the place and shouldn’t be jmo

**The General** · 10-08-20, 11:38 AM

I like the cattle prod idea.

**stevek173** · 10-08-20, 11:39 AM

Stretch the court back out and bring back sideout/traditional scoring in beach volleyball.

I'm not the only one that feels this way.

**hubie69** · 10-08-20, 11:45 AM

Easy. Let players in the NFL actually hit people and play defense.

**RudyRuetigger** · 10-08-20, 11:54 AM

TURNOVERS is the correct answer for a gambler

you could easily win if those weren't factored in

seems most here do not gamble

**DiggityDaggityDo** · 10-08-20, 12:59 PM

Originally posted by stevek173

Stretch the court back out and bring back sideout/traditional scoring in beach volleyball.

I'm not the only one that feels this way.

Chicks with bigger

playing volleyball too.

**stevek173** · 10-08-20, 02:17 PM

**KVB** · 10-08-20, 02:32 PM

Basketball.

The idea of the intentional foul at the end of games is ridiculous.

You should not be able to break the rules intentionally in order to use it as some kind of advantage, like to come back, in a the game.

It is a violation of the spirit of having rules, or fouls, to stand by and allow teams to break the rules in order to try and win the game.

Intentional, hack a Shaq type fouls that occur in the last minutes of the game should be auto ejections, or a technical type foul, giving the team the ball after the free throws.

You want to foul a big man all game and make him shoot free throws, fine, deal with foul trouble then. But if your plan to come back in the end directly involves breaking rules, it should not be allowed.

It's the ultimate in poor sportsmanship.

**deeppckts** · 10-08-20, 02:38 PM

All sports: No anthem
MLB: Eliminate challenges. Absolutely meaningless in 162 game season, let alone in the game itself. Preferably eliminate home plate umpire.
NBA: Eliminate the entire sport
NHL: Don't change anything.
NFL: OT rules to college format. No spiking ball. Let QBs be hittable for christ's sake.

SOCCER: START WITH 10 A SIDE IN EXTRA TIME AND ELIMINATE PLAYERS ON EACH SIDE UNTIL A GOAL IS SCORED. Penalty shots have to be the dumbest thing on the planet. May as well flip a coin.

**Judge Crater** · 10-11-20, 03:48 PM

How about

No more than two lateral's "backward pass " in a play. No more embarrassing last play of the game antics.

**jtoler** · 10-11-20, 03:57 PM

Originally posted by carolinakid

the main problem the clock stop too much in the nfl.

? Clock is almost always running in nfl stops too much in college. I wish clock always stopped if u go out of bounds but that isn’t the case

**asiagambler** · 10-11-20, 04:00 PM

Originally posted by Enkhbat

3 timeouts for NBA teams per half, just like in the NFL. End of NBA games are unbearable. Too many timeouts.

This is already a rule. A team can only have 2 timeouts in the last 3 minutes of the game

**Judge Crater** · 10-11-20, 10:32 PM

electronic strike zones

**BetterBizness** · 10-11-20, 10:54 PM

Originally posted by pologq

a lot of good responses so i am adding:

i would have computerized strike zones in mlb.

i would eliminate roughing the passer unless it is a malicious hit and then it is a personal foul.

i would make the nhl only give a point for ties after the OT, not after the 3rd period.

I’m ok with 1 but I also think you should
Get 3 for regulation win

**Wrongside** · 10-11-20, 11:27 PM

No more force outs in baseball