Yeah you kinda really did. You wrote "People may not have like (kickoffs) for whatever reason, but statistically, kickoffs were more exciting before."
When you say "whatever reason", you are 100% glossing over the fact that the reason is that kickoffs are the most dangerous play in the game. The lack of player safety, which you ignored, is the entire reason they made the change in the first place (and continue to tinker with it). It isn't some commissioner/owner fueled conspiracy to arbitrarily make the game more boring.
All the arguments I have seen on this thread do nothing to subtract from my original statement: People criticize the NFL for not caring about player safety. Then when the League does something to improve player safety, people criticize them for that. "We had a good thing going ... Goodell's an ******* ... " etc.
Again, my post was a direct response to your post highlighting your assertion that not much was lost in the way of excitement by changing the rules. It does not encompass the entire breadth of my thoughts on the matter.
If it is difficult to understand, I will break it down for you.
"People" - A deliberately broad term to include almost anyone.
"For whatever reason" - There is more than one reason why "people" (that broad term) do not like kickoffs. In your post, to which I was responding, you did not mention your concern with injury, only that kickoffs are boring. There are probably more than those two reasons, and I do not have the desire, nor energy, nor time, to enumerate them all. Thus, "for whatever reason" will have to, along with "people", serve as blanket terms.
I was not addressing the injury concern, since there is nothing, not even one word of it, in your post to which I was responding. I acknowledged that there are other concerns, but did not care to expand on those thoughts since you, yourself, had not yet mentioned your concern with injury in any post that I had read to that point.
Now, if you are fully satisfied, and if you have no meaningful rebuttal to my assertions about the "loss of excitement", do you want to get into a discussion about player safety? Do I need to further elaborate?
