Horse Collar

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Yup, and then you're stuck with a bunch of rules that are poorly worded and are usually ambiguous.

They can be, but don't have to be. The Northern States Football League's rules referenced one of the major codes and specified the exact wording of its amendments and where they would be inserted. (They also had an informal summary of their differences from Fed, NCAA, and NFL.)

True, they were the only minor league organiz'n I ever saw do that. And apparently even the XFL's supposed official rules were written informally AFAICT. But just because you're a small time operation doesn't mean you have to have ambiguous or poorly worded rules. Hell, with the way the NFL book is written today (with lots of undefined but should-be-defined terms), I could even see a minor league's "amending" the NFL rules to clarify them!

Robert