May sound heartless but I dont particularly care about player safety and rules designed to avoid injury. I enjoy the physicality of football more than anything else about it. As the NFL keeps tweaking the rules to avoid more contact, they're going to play this delicate balancing act of being either a violent sport or flag football. I'm not sure thats a position the league should want to find itself in but I think that is where they are headed. If we start seeing more and more bogus calls on Clay Matthews type plays, especially ones that change the outcome of games, I think that is going to turn off a lot of fans. And I'm not sure there are enough of the flag football type fans who would pick up the sport to offset the fans they'll lose who want a more physical, violent game. I know I already watch significantly fewer games than I used to. If it wasn't for the Jags, I probably wouldnt even watch that much NFL anymore.

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