OT: Things in sports that need to disappear

[RUBubba]

- Fans at golf tournaments yelling "GET IN THE HOLE", "MASHED POTATOS", "BABBABOOEY" etc after a shot. That stopped being humorous 15 years ago.

- Stoppage time in soccer. Seriously... every other timed sport has figured out how to start and stop the game clock without it being a hidden secret known only to the refs

- The need for every MLB pitcher to throw 100 mph. Its a shame that if Greg Maddux was a senior in HS or college, he wouldn't have a single scout watching him.

- Anticipated fouls in basketball. Simple concept for refs... wait until you actually see contact before blowing the whistle.

- "Load management" in the NBA.

- In game interviews with coaches. Nothing of value comes out of them.

What else?

 

[DJ Spanky]

- In game interviews with coaches. Nothing of value comes out of them.

Dear god I hate this one. In the NFL are coaches required to do these? Because if I was a coach I'd be telling the interviewer to go f' themselves.

 

[Scarlet4Shore]

The manager in MLB wearing a uniform.

I always wondered — why do the fans/spectators have to be quiet when players are preparing to serve in tennis or hit a golf shot, but can yell and scream when someone shooting a free throw or there’s two strikes on a batter? Don’t the athletes in all the scenarios need to concentrate?

 

[superfan01]

20 minute halftimes in college football. NFL can do it in 12 minutes. College games already take 3.5 hours and much longer than NFL.

 

[RUBubba]

- Hitting out of a divot in the middle of the fairway. I pipe a drive and end up in a divot because some guy before me is pissed off because he chunked his 7 iron and couldn't be bothered to replace his divot? Speaking of which... hey butt head... rake the damn bunker too!

 

[voltz99]

How does an initial football 1st down spotted? Does the chain gang measure the initial spot? I have never seen the initial spot measured by the chain gang.

My point being, if the initial 1st down spot is not measured then doesn't that make the final measurement bogus?

 

[HeavenUniv.]

ALL Video Reviews

 

[ashokan]

Canned interviews with prefabbed questions and answers running in A/B repeat.
Commercials intentionally too loud to grab the bubba's attention during breaks.
Sports shows with clueless query queens asking 4 ex-athletes/coaches for opinions.
Endless contract talk - I put FAN on and a lot of the talk is about contracts (who grew-up fixated to contracts? )
Too much gambling talks/predictions
Homely girls wearing tissue thin uniforms.

 

[Plum Street]

tv timeouts - would love to see a game with a few sponsors with advertisements during the game and no tv timeouts

Tv timeouts on Netflix and Amazon - paid for subscription services should not have tv timeouts when they don’t have commercials other times

In game interviews - Just stupid. I mean Schiano saying Michigan was cheating was pretty cool though

Television announcers - would love to see a football game with no announcers. Traditional coverage of the game except no announcers. ESPN does this with the sky cam but want it with regular coverage . I can’t stand these buffoons like romo and Aikman saying crap like “they would really like to come away with points on this drive or “the defense would really like to not have them come away with points on this drive “
Yeah no Sh*t ! Scoring is the whole point !!

Microphone up - want to hear more players michrophoned up

NFL playoffs “divisional round”. - what the hell does this even mean? Antiquated language ! Not all division winners play this week anymore. Call it the second round or conference semifinals.

ncaa tournament start times - earlier start times for most games. . Especially the second round. Too many games backloaded until Saturday and Sunday nights. Same with final 4….find a way to tip the second game at 9 pm the latest …tip the Monday final at 9 …not 922 or whatever

Football National Championship day/time - the Monday night late start is ridiculous. Find a way to play it on wild card weekend
Doubleheader on ESPN

MLB - play more baseball day games

PSL or personal seat licenses - scam scam scam. They were billed as some great investments lol

Will think of some more.

 

[RULoyal]

- Fans at golf tournaments yelling "GET IN THE HOLE", "MASHED POTATOS", "BABBABOOEY" etc after a shot. That stopped being humorous 15 years ago.

- Stoppage time in soccer. Seriously... every other timed sport has figured out how to start and stop the game clock without it being a hidden secret known only to the refs

- The need for every MLB pitcher to throw 100 mph. Its a shame that if Greg Maddux was a senior in HS or college, he wouldn't have a single scout watching him.

- Anticipated fouls in basketball. Simple concept for refs... wait until you actually see contact before blowing the whistle.

- "Load management" in the NBA.

- In game interviews with coaches. Nothing of value comes out of them.

What else?

Stoppage time in soccer - idiotic. Somebody obviously keeping track of it, just stop and start the clock. A surprise at the end of the game is just dumb.

 

[Kbee3]

Television announcers - would love to see a football game with no announcers. Traditional coverage of the game except no announcers. ESPN does this with the sky cam but want it with regular coverage . I can’t stand these buffoons like romo and Aikman saying crap like “they would really like to come away with points on this drive or “the defense would really like to not have them come away with points on this drive “
Yeah no Sh*t ! Scoring is the whole point !!

My remote has a MUTE button that I often use.

 

[RU to the Core]

Agree on the stoppage time in soccer. Dumb. I played soccer forever and never understood that.

Women volleyball players wearing pants when others aren’t. I’m not looking at it the way you think I am. I just think it looks totally dumb. You can’t wear a different uniform than your teammates in any other sport.

How we can’t get spotting the football right still. It’s such and important part of the game.

They should limit how many 3 pointers can be shot in an nba game. It’s unwatchable now. I know there are proposals being kicked around by talking heads.

The way the last minute of college basketball takes 20 minutes with all the fouling. The game becoming a foul shooting contest at the end seems gimmicky like having a field goal kicking or penalty shootout contest to end every nfl or soccer game.

 

[R1766U]

Basketball players imitating shooting guns or injecting their arms after three pointers.

 

[rubigtimenow]

20 minute halftimes in college football. NFL can do it in 12 minutes. College games already take 3.5 hours and much longer than NFL.

Noooo. If at a game this barely enough time to go to bathroom and quickly talk with others.
If home it’s a good amount of time to catch up with DVR or to get something else done real quick.
Intermission on a 3 hour event is nice!

 

[hankee18]

The NBA 3 point line. Its ruined the game

Nitpicking, but we need a new category for interceptions in football. Some INTs are the receiver's fault, NOT the QB. Why should he take all the blame

Let me add also - get rid of the current helmets in football. I hate that guys use them as weapons. Switch to leather and let the guys tackle for real

 

[rubigtimenow]

This a good thread. Lots of great ideas in here already.
My opinions…
-Baseball games in April and October/November. 162 game season is crazy too much. (I know I know, purists gnashing their teeth at that). First game 1st Friday in May, last regular season game on 8/31. 100 games? Playoffs don’t stretch past 9/30.
-Baseball. Too many strikeouts and home runs. Need more action in the game and mlb knows it!
-Football. Too long play clock. Play clock should actually be 10-15 seconds shorter. I often watch on dvr and can usually fast forward 30 seconds (2 clicks) after every play and miss nothing except some chatter.
-Baseball. No salary cap.
-College sports. No salary/NIL cap. I know it’s hard to figure out but it’s literally impossible to regularly compete against the outsized budget schools (just like in mlb).
-Football. Tv timeouts that are 3+ minutes.
-Football. Kickoff. Sorry, I used to love the kickoff but that play is pretty much meaningless anymore.
-Penn State athletics.

 

[RULoyal]

Victory formation in football. Either play out the game or declare the game over.

 

[bac2therac]

ESPN talk shows

 

[dfr1966]

Game threads on message boards

 

[ScarletNut]

tv timeouts - would love to see a game with a few sponsors with advertisements during the game and no tv timeouts

Tv timeouts on Netflix and Amazon - paid for subscription services should not have tv timeouts when they don’t have commercials other times

In game interviews - Just stupid. I mean Schiano saying Michigan was cheating was pretty cool though

Television announcers - would love to see a football game with no announcers. Traditional coverage of the game except no announcers. ESPN does this with the sky cam but want it with regular coverage . I can’t stand these buffoons like romo and Aikman saying crap like “they would really like to come away with points on this drive or “the defense would really like to not have them come away with points on this drive “
Yeah no Sh*t ! Scoring is the whole point !!

Microphone up - want to hear more players michrophoned up

NFL playoffs “divisional round”. - what the hell does this even mean? Antiquated language ! Not all division winners play this week anymore. Call it the second round or conference semifinals.

ncaa tournament start times - earlier start times for most games. . Especially the second round. Too many games backloaded until Saturday and Sunday nights. Same with final 4….find a way to tip the second game at 9 pm the latest …tip the Monday final at 9 …not 922 or whatever

Football National Championship day/time - the Monday night late start is ridiculous. Find a way to play it on wild card weekend
Doubleheader on ESPN

MLB - play more baseball day games

PSL or personal seat licenses - scam scam scam. They were billed as some great investments lol

Will think of some more.

Soccer gets by with no commercials and they pay the highest salaries of any sports in the world.
There was a televeised game in the early 70's that was without any commentary at all, on purpose, and fans loved it.

 

[Spartared]

Lets get rid of chicken shit pichers who show up for training camp and 5 days later annonce they need arm surgery and will be out for all or part of the year. Use the Sandy Koufax approach of ice down your arm down after every stint

 

[LotusAggressor]

1) Announcers saying"downhill"
2) Sideline reporters
3) Constant cutaways to celebrities
4) Constant cutaways to owners
5) Tom Brady
6) ESPN

 

[LotusAggressor]

ESPN talk shows

They should change their name to The Louder & Dumber Sports Network.

 

[nutfromSEC117]

20 min halftime where clock doesn’t start until every single player has entered the tunnel for 30 secs

Having injured player on ground for 2-3 mins then when he gets up a 2:50 TV timeout is called

Player tears knee, blows up ankle and he limps on injured leg or is dragged off by 2 doctors 6 inches shorter . Get a F-in cart !! You’ve already proved how tuff you are , just get on a damn cart.

 

[newwavedave1]

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90% agree.

 

[newwavedave1]

The 1/2 hr worth of time outs at the end of basketball games.

 

[nutfromSEC117]

How is there not a microchip at both ends of a football so all TD’s and down marks can be 100% accurate.

I’m sure any bills fans on here would’ve wanted microchips this season

 

[mikebal9]

-NIL collectives
-The limit on pickoff throws to first
-Ghost runner on 2nd in extras
-NHL giving points for losses
-NHL OT format
-Coast to coast college conferences
-CBs celebrating on a pass the WR drops without their help
-NBA gather step rule
-launch angle
-Stephen A Smith

 

[DJ Spanky]

NBA gather step rule

I haven't watched or followed the NBA in decades, so had to look this up. Holy crap, no wonder I don't follow it. Between the last dribble and the gather, you can have multiple steps, then you have an additional 2 steps after the plant foot for the gather.

 

[koleszar]

Constant piped in loud arena and stadium music. I didn't buy tickets to a concert, I bought them to a sporting event. I would like to see the sights, traditions and sounds of that. Not some DJ, I don't know when they decided this was en vogue but I can't stand it.

 

[e5fdny]

The designated hitter.

 

[Kbee3]

The designated hitter.

Please...no one wants to see a pitcher bat ever again.

 

[e5fdny]

Please...no one wants to see a pitcher bat ever again.

Bartolo Colon homers on May 7, 2016 | 05/30/2024

MLB Network Legendary Moments takes a look back at Bartolo Colon's famous home run at Citi Field

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[WhiteBus]

Bartolo Colon homers on May 7, 2016 | 05/30/2024

MLB Network Legendary Moments takes a look back at Bartolo Colon's famous home run at Citi Field

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He should of waited for a cab for him to round the bases it would have been faster!
Dude had a career batting average of .084. Perfect example why pitchers shouldn't step to the plate!
I definitely don't miss watching pitchers be an automatic out! The NL hung with that stupid thinking way too long! They were the last league of any kind, from youth to Triple A to get with the times.

 

[NewJerseyGuy]

Loud, obnoxious, animated, cartoon transformer robot style NFL game promos.

 

[Mr_Twister]

Excessive fouling at the end of basketball games. In the last 2 minutes, give the team being fouled the option of inbounding the ball again instead of going to the charity stripe.

 

[colbert17]

Television announcers - would love to see a football game with no announcers. Traditional coverage of the game except no announcers.

Was actually done on NBC in 1980. Jets/Dolphins had more field mics and the PA gave a little more info than usual but no TV announcers.

 

[colbert17]

The NBA 3 point line. Its ruined the game

+100000000000000000000000000000000000

Turned on a game the other night and watched a guy take a three on a 4 on 1 fast break

 

[colbert17]

Continuous playing of music at all games between plays at ear splitting levels

 

[WhiteBus]

Continuous playing of music at all games between plays at ear splitting levels

With Rutgers being the worst!