OT - Upcoming NFL Changes?

[ajmc]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

Because at the NFL level, its near automatic and useless. I think the NFL is like Fed where if Team B secures possession, the try is ended. So at least in NCAA rules, there is a reason for both teams to continue with the try -- for now.

The kicking game, except possibly for field goals, is on its way out of the game. Its just a matter of someone coming up with a viable idea on how to replace it.

Never worked in Texas, but a good deal of Collegiate, a lot of High School and without question at the Youth Football levels, the kicking game is anything but automatic, and is more of an adventure where just about anything can happen.

Maybe there should be a game with no kicking, or a variety of other different rules and objectives. American Football is said to have evolved, or at least be greatly influenced by, Rugby. Instead of tinkering with something that's working as well as EVER expected, someone might come up with something new.

Has Coca-Cola ever got close to it's market share before announcing it's "new" formula?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by ajmc

Has Coca-Cola ever got close to it's market share before announcing it's "new" formula?

It exceeded its previous share and totals.

If you were designing a game from scratch, it'd be very unlikely you'd include "extra points" of any kind. Sometimes games (quiz shows, most commonly) have a qualifying goal that allows you to try for a score, or a greater score if the qualifying goal scores by itself, but not the reverse.

I suspect the retention of the PAT was abetted by the (American) Football Rules Committee's removing the goals from the goal lines. If that hadn't happened, probably the try would've gone away by no later than 1925, Canadian football would've done similarly, and of course the 2 pt. conversion would never have been devised. But once the goals were on the end lines, there were a lot of HS teams that probably never attempted a goal except via try, so the try was considered significant, and then when their players got to college they were used to it, and since there was only one rules committee for American football, there was not much thought given to formulating rules only for HS.