Origins of new NFL kickoff rule go back to demonstration with sugar packets on a table
The new NFL kickoff rule − passed during league meetings Tuesday − can trace its origin story to a Splenda packet in a boardroom.
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The new NFL kickoff rule − passed during league meetings Tuesday − can trace its origin story to a Splenda packet in a boardroom.
The Pulse Newsletter �� | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Aaron Rodgers will play football this year. Over the last two years, we have seen major American sports adopt huge rule changes. Before last season, baseball revolutionized itself to great effect. We even covered a big NFL rule tweak yesterday. Today brings another, and it could be bigger than baseball’s. Yes, NFL kickoffs are undergoing a serious makeover. But it might not look that different to us on TV — and this is a good thing.
The NFL approved a handful of other rule changes, bylaws, and resolutions, which we'll try to make sense of this afternoon.
The league hopes to bring back excitement while keeping injuries down, but teams have a lot to figure out with personnel and strategy.
No matter how bad fans of other teams hope for failure, Alabama is still in the upper echelon of college football