Quote:Not when they are playing at slower speeds like they do in Canada. More space means more time to achieve top speed which means more violent collisions. Narrower fields and allowing more incidental contact with moving players means less ramp up time.

 

Try this: go sit in your car. Park in front of a brick wall with the front end 6 inches from the wall. Slam on the gas.

 

Now back your car up 300 hundred feet and do the same thing.

 

Which one hurt your car worse?

 

The same dynamic applies to football players, especially as we've reached the ceilings of human weight and speed. Eliminating the extraneous space is one way they could help reduce the violence of the collisions. Obviously it won't help much with the "many small impacts" issue, but it would make headway on the "knockout" hit one.

 

You are ignoring the fact that wide receivers run vertically. How will a narrower field help if the receiver is in the middle of it? A narrower field might help some, but not if a receiver is running a post route.

 

The fields are the same width now as they were before I was born, so there obviously must be a better solution than reducing the field size.

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