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Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:20 am
by JameisBrownston
Much like basketball, the end of a football game is very often the worst football played in the game. It's arguably even worse. No one goes to a game to watch teams run out the clock and, worst of all, kneel. So let's make every game end in a score; say, set the winning score at 10 points above what the leading team has at the end of the 3rd quarter. Why have I never heard anyone bring this up?!

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 11:01 am
by rhickok1109
Because it's a ridiculous idea.

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 11:10 am
by ChrisBabcock
What does all of this have to do with Jason Elam kicking a game winning field goal?

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 12:40 pm
by RichardBak
rhickok1109 wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 11:01 am Because it's a ridiculous idea.
Well, he posted it at 2:48 in the morning, when all great ideas are born....

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:00 pm
by Brian wolf
It has always been a 60 minute game, no matter how many timeouts and stoppages of play the networks decide upon.

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:43 pm
by shig
Jason? Abram? What Elam is being named here and how do they relate to this?

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:56 pm
by TanksAndSpartans
It doesn't seem to be a reference to a football player, but rather to the person who came up with the idea of "racing" to a set score:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam_Ending

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 3:45 pm
by JameisBrownston
TanksAndSpartans wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:56 pm It doesn't seem to be a reference to a football player, but rather to the person who came up with the idea of "racing" to a set score:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam_Ending
It is exactly this. I figured this was common knowledge.

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:46 pm
by JuggernautJ
Or... they could do it like we did in our sandlot games/leagues...

First team to three scores (we didn't have field goals) won but you had to win by two scores.
Mismatches were over in 20 minutes but evenly matched games could go back and forth for hours!
Sometimes we'd play one or two games on any given day and sometimes we'd play over 7-8 (11 was our record but we played from 10 am till sunset and took on any comers).

Of course, there was a reason we were playing on the sandlot and not in a stadium...
:)

Re: Elam Ending in the NFL

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:27 pm
by conace21
JameisBrownston wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:20 am Much like basketball, the end of a football game is very often the worst football played in the game. It's arguably even worse. No one goes to a game to watch teams run out the clock and, worst of all, kneel. So let's make every game end in a score; say, set the winning score at 10 points above what the leading team has at the end of the 3rd quarter. Why have I never heard anyone bring this up?!
Not sure if this is a serious question, but I'll address it.

-I don't think there's any support for saying that the worst football is played at the end of the game.

-It's a 60 minute game. Organized football, basketball, and hockey all are timed games. The time determines the end of the game, not the score.

-Such am idea would invariably lead to much worse football at the end of a game. It could go on indefinitely, players could be playing 5+ full quarters, and fatigue would certainly lead to a decline at the level of play.