[NU Sports] Potential Football Rules Changes

[Roy Lamberton]

If it makes no sense...

Follow the money.

I personally don't mind the 4 PM EST starts, especially when I don't go to the
games. Paul has probably suffered thru too many Giant and Jet games in that
wonderful icey wind tunnel in the Meadowlands.

NU's tailgating has been essentially destroyed by all the 11 AM starts but the
one night game a year has turned into a decent game, even if the student boogied
early last year.

Personally, I could handle a 30 minute half time, but the present 20 is just
fine.

IMHO of course

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of NEONRye at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:58 AM
> To: jonathanwhodges at gmail.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Potential Football Rules Changes
> 
> 
> Jonathan's points are all well taken.  
>  
> Another reason why 15 minutes is wholly insufficient and 
> inappropriate for  
> halftime:  It cuts down on the time that fans have to use 
> rest rooms, buy  food 
> and beverages, etc.  The trend towards favoring TV over fans 
> in the  seats is 
> getting really ugly--especially in the NFL, with late-season 
> night  games in 
> the always-balmy Northeast and Midwest, 4 p.m. E.S.T. starts 
> on Sundays  for 
> far too many games that should otherwise be played at 1 p.m. 
> (or 12 p.m. in  
> C.S.T.), long commercial breaks, etc.  And, of course, my 
> favorite sport,  
> baseball, has built a strong future fan base with those 
> wonderful World Series  
> night games that stretch into next week.  Not to mention our 
> very own NCAA  with 
> its night games on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and 
> Fridays--which fits  
> nicely into academic schedules and provides more than ample 
> recovery time for  
> the athletes between games.   Yes, the "idiot box" rules the 
> Sports  Kingdom, 
> and if anyone doubts this premise, just tune in NBC's 
> coverage of the  
> Olympics.  You just might see some competition amidst all of 
> the commercial  clutter.  
>  
> Paul Levinson
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