Norman Chad has this piece on the NFL's pre-game penalty regime. Here is a snippet from his article:
This season, officials will be on the field 45 minutes before every NFL game monitoring both teams. If the referees see anything out of whack, they can throw a flag with the penalty being assessed at the start of the game.Teams will be penalized for unsuitable behavior such as trash talking, shoving an opponent or even, I suppose, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.
Of course, this means that, eventually, the Oakland Raiders will be kicking off from their own goal line.
(Speaking of the Raiders, how 'bout our old friend Bill Romanowski? I'm reminded of how some folks like to say that football mirrors life. Hah! In life, if you're working at IBM and punch out a colleague, you're usually out of a job by the end of business that day. In football, if you do the same thing, you're usually promoted to team captain.)
The NFL is a great game. I just don't understand why it now has to extend to the pre-game.
Before you know it, a coach might exhaust all his "challenges" before the opening kickoff.
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