clear thinking

This afternoon as i was standing in the shower I started thinking about a video that i recently watched on youtube for the first time it's called The Lonesome kicker. It's a funny song by Adam Sandler about the least respected person on a football team, the kicker. It got me to thinking about how the whole function of the kicker is so foreign to every other part of the game. The rest of the game is about strategy and battle, but if you get close enough without succeeding you bring out the runt of the team to try and kick the ball through the goal posts. There's no battle there, there's no team strategy, it's just one guy showing a skill that is completely useless in 99% of the game. Thats when I got my idea to get rid of or at least scale way down the use of the kicker. Most of the time the kicker comes out after the team with the ball has failed to convert a third down into a first down, and instead of going the first down on fourth down and risking giving up possesion they will bring in the kicker to try and get the consolidation prize of a field goal. Here's the thought I had, if a team goes for it on fourth down and three or less, and converts it into a first down. Give them a point. if they convert on fourth and four or longer give them three points, the same amount as a field goal. Also if they attempt a fourth down conversion and score a touchdown, they recieve eight points with no point after try needed. I also think that field goals should not be worth three automatically. I think 17-30 yards should be worth 2 points, 31-45 yards be worth three points and anything beyond 46 yards should be five points. I think these changes would add a lot more imagination and excitement to football, something the pro game could definetly use.

hello world

well this is my first official real attempt at a blog. for some time now I have thought that blogging would be a great way for me to tap into my creative juices, but have feared that I wouldn't know what to say and get frustrated and give up. But here goes, even if it doesn't make much sense to anyone or more likely isn't interesting, I don't care because for right now it's just for me.
So ... Hello world