First the good news, though. When asked to opine on the \u201ctush push\u201d<\/a> controversy, the Businessperson who also happens to be the Biggest NFL Fan Alive sided with the proponents of status quo: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t ban it.\u201d This means the quarterback (i.e. the player who receives the ball at the start of every play) can still be violently pushed by his teammates across the goal-line. It makes great television, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n Then, with no advance warning, the tone of the Biggest NFL Fan changed. \u201cBut what I would ban is this horrible kickoff rule,\u201d he thundered, \u201cthis new kickoff rule that is so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n Granted, the 2024 rule<\/a> doesn\u2019t make great television, but it was devised for another, arguably more noble purpose – to reduce injury risks. On kickoffs, the players no longer crash into each other at full speed, and the decrease in concussions has been quite dramatic, according to the NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unless the NFL is guilty of concocting fake news. The new kickoff rule is \u201cdangerous,\u201d the business association\u2019s Biggest Fan argued with not much evidence in the accepted sense of the word. \u201cIt\u2019s much more dangerous. It is so terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n Healthy is harmful, peace is war. A friend is a foe, and an act of treason is a laudable show of patriotism.<\/p>\n To be expected before the next NFL season kicks off: a football-related executive order that tears the current, \u201cso bad\u201d and, indeed, \u201cdangerous\u201d rulebook into pieces.<\/p>\n Image source: William C. Morris, Spokesman-Review Cartoons, 1908<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With all due respect to the lovers of snow sports whose favorite season still reigns supreme in the Arctic, I would like to dedicate my first blog post of 2025 to the National Football League fans. For the uninitiated, the NFL is a business association headquartered in New York City, just a few minutes\u2019 jog […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-okategoriserade"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NFL2025.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JbBl-1iN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NFL2025-300x226.jpg\")
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