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NFL Exec Reveals New Scheme To Ruin Football For Fans

A top NFL executive says the future of the sport is men and women playing flag football.

The bizarre prognostication came from Troy Vincent, a former player who is currently the league’s executive vice president of football operations. If it comes to fruition, millions of fans will likely find themselves with substantially more free time on Sundays.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-exec-...TDEa9i9Urk

(07-07-2022, 06:57 PM)The Drifter Wrote: [ -> ]NFL Exec Reveals New Scheme To Ruin Football For Fans

A top NFL executive says the future of the sport is men and women playing flag football.

The bizarre prognostication came from Troy Vincent, a former player who is currently the league’s executive vice president of football operations. If it comes to fruition, millions of fans will likely find themselves with substantially more free time on Sundays.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-exec-...TDEa9i9Urk

....I could see the NFL creating a "senior tour" type of league for retirees that would play low-contact games to combat the upstart spring leagues. Would you want to watch Shea Patterson in a USFL game, or Drew Brees in a NFL-branded flag football game?

The shield would be dumb to make any major changes to the multi-billion dollar behemoth they've built.

He isn't wrong unless there is a change in the direction the sport has been going. Eventually all the rules will have been changed for safety to the point that you end up with flag football. It's coming at some point unless people either live with the dangers of the sport or the helmet technology is improved.*


*You could also have the players stop leading with their heads but that doesn't seem ever get any traction.

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(07-17-2022, 12:18 PM)p_rushing Wrote: [ -> ]He isn't wrong unless there is a change in the direction the sport has been going. Eventually all the rules will have been changed for safety to the point that you end up with flag football. It's coming at some point unless people either live with the dangers of the sport or the helmet technology is improved.*


*You could also have the players stop leading with their heads but that doesn't seem ever get any traction.

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Remove the face masks. Problem solved.

The future is soccer I guess

Well its more rules for safety or just more CTE deaths.

Here's the full quotes of what Vincent actually said:

“That’s the ultimate goal to make flag football an Olympic sport,” Vincent told the Associated Press.

Vincent says flag football will be much easier to export to the world, for both men and women, than tackle football.

“When we talk about the future of the game of football, it is, no question, flag,” Vincent said. “When I’ve been asked over the last 24 months, in particular, what does the next 100 years look like when you look at football, not professional football, it’s flag. It’s the inclusion and the true motto of ‘football for all.’ There is a place in flag football for all.”

He clearly tried to separate the NFL and other pro leagues from the Olympics, which is what the flag football comment was about. Obviously there's no telling where the NFL will go in the future, and while I doubt we get to the point of flag football in the NFL in my lifetime, it is still possible. Just figured I'd add some actual context to his quotes since OP and the site he linked didn't really provide any.

If anyone has seen the episode of south park called Sarcastaball, this feels like the rl version.

(07-17-2022, 02:12 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-17-2022, 12:18 PM)p_rushing Wrote: [ -> ]He isn't wrong unless there is a change in the direction the sport has been going. Eventually all the rules will have been changed for safety to the point that you end up with flag football. It's coming at some point unless people either live with the dangers of the sport or the helmet technology is improved.*


*You could also have the players stop leading with their heads but that doesn't seem ever get any traction.

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Remove the face masks. Problem solved.

This was Vic's take, too.

Another consideration - look at games from the 80s and 90s. Shoulder pads have practically disappeared. I've seen motorcyclists with more protection than some WR. Bigger pads = slower players = lower velocity impacts.

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(07-17-2022, 02:33 PM)MoJagFan Wrote: [ -> ]The future is soccer I guess

Oh gad all the WR motioning for the refs to raise a yellow card....I just vurped a bit.

(07-17-2022, 06:27 PM)empty Wrote: [ -> ]Here's the full quotes of what Vincent actually said: 

“That’s the ultimate goal to make flag football an Olympic sport,” Vincent told the Associated Press.

Vincent says flag football will be much easier to export to the world, for both men and women, than tackle football.

“When we talk about the future of the game of football, it is, no question, flag,” Vincent said. “When I’ve been asked over the last 24 months, in particular, what does the next 100 years look like when you look at football, not professional football, it’s flag. It’s the inclusion and the true motto of ‘football for all.’ There is a place in flag football for all.”

He clearly tried to separate the NFL and other pro leagues from the Olympics, which is what the flag football comment was about.  Obviously there's no telling where the NFL will go in the future, and while I doubt we get to the point of flag football in the NFL in my lifetime, it is still possible.  Just figured I'd add some actual context to his quotes since OP and the site he linked didn't really provide any.

context goes a long way. Thank you.

I think anyone focusing on the future of any sport probably ought not waste time focusing on the 'lympics.

Maybe this is a bit extreme, but I can envision when it will be a penalty for a player to hit the ground. They will just mark forward progress or something similar and that will be the point of stoppage. Stand up football. Honestly, I'd still take that over flag football or some other setup where a player is down when you strike/set off an electronic device strapped to the player.

Some of y'all are wild hahaha

I also remember some of you saying that the NFL is going to die out by this point because it's "too woke"..... and yet here we are. Relax. It's not going to be "stand up football" or turn into flag football.

(07-18-2022, 12:40 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: [ -> ]Some of y'all are wild hahaha

I also remember some of you saying that the NFL is going to die out by this point because it's "too woke"..... and yet here we are. Relax. It's not going to be "stand up football" or turn into flag football.

Didn't say 'stand up football' would be a bad thing, btw. And I played and watched football in the era where clotheslining, the forearm shiver and chop blocking was SOP and Jack Tatum paralyzes Darryl Stingley without a roughing penalty. Games would be higher scoring for sure. That's what the league wants, right?

And equating 'wokeness' and player safety is just weak conflation on your part. Neither has anything to do with the other.

(07-18-2022, 08:52 AM)Mikey Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-17-2022, 06:27 PM)empty Wrote: [ -> ]Here's the full quotes of what Vincent actually said: 

“That’s the ultimate goal to make flag football an Olympic sport,” Vincent told the Associated Press.

Vincent says flag football will be much easier to export to the world, for both men and women, than tackle football.

“When we talk about the future of the game of football, it is, no question, flag,” Vincent said. “When I’ve been asked over the last 24 months, in particular, what does the next 100 years look like when you look at football, not professional football, it’s flag. It’s the inclusion and the true motto of ‘football for all.’ There is a place in flag football for all.”

He clearly tried to separate the NFL and other pro leagues from the Olympics, which is what the flag football comment was about.  Obviously there's no telling where the NFL will go in the future, and while I doubt we get to the point of flag football in the NFL in my lifetime, it is still possible.  Just figured I'd add some actual context to his quotes since OP and the site he linked didn't really provide any.

context goes a long way. Thank you.

I think anyone focusing on the future of any sport probably ought not waste time focusing on the 'lympics.

I think he (and anyone else associated with Olympic football) are trying to be pretty clear about how separate they are.  If the goal is to have Olympic football, it can't be in the same vein as the NFL because we are so far beyond virtually every other country that it would be a waste of time, even if the only players for the US were AFL/CFL/XFL and college players that aren't highly touted NFL prospects.  Flag football would at least level the playing field a bit.