Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL will consider offering incentives to teams playing late-season games to discourage
them from resting their starters for the playoffs.
Goodell said the league was sensitive to criticism of the Indianapolis
Colts' decision to use backups a week ago in a game they lost, ending their bid for a perfect season.
"It
is something we'll look at," Goodell said Sunday. "We heard the fans loud and clear. It's something our competition
committee has looked at in the past, but we're going to ask our competition committee to look at it again in the future. We
want every game to be competitive."
The league's position has been that playoff-bound teams enjoy the right
to rest their starters to prepare for the postseason. Goodell said he didn't blame the Colts for their decision.
The commissioner spoke before the game between the Dolphins and Steelers. Later, in an interview with CBS, Goodell said
various incentives to prevent teams from benching starters will be considered.
Such incentives could include awarding
draft choices.
"We are considering a lot of different things," Goodell said on CBS. "I don't think
you can punish them for not playing. The other thing that has to happen is you have to make it clear to the public that you
are not going to be playing someone, like we do with our injury reports."
The Colts already had clinched home-field
advantage throughout the AFC playoffs when coach Jim Caldwell sat Peyton Manning and other starters in the second half, and
the Jets rallied to win. NFL purists were upset the Colts didn't go all-out with a shot at a perfect season.
"We
want to make sure the integrity of the NFL is first and foremost in everyone's mind, and try to find ways to make sure our
games are competitive at all points in the season, including the preseason," Goodell said.
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City-County Councilor Angela Mansfield and Bob Lutz have a case of wishful thinking.
They obviously don't really care about the cost.
They should.
Extending Federal Benefits to Same-Sex Couples Will Cost $898M, CBO Says
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/22/extending-federal-benefits-sex-couples-cost-m-cbo-says/ -
Brett, be careful what you lie about, the truth always comes out.
"IMS's George Honored: Tony George, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president and chief executive officer, received the inaugural Pioneering and Innovation Award at the Autosport Awards Dec. 5 in London for his leadership in the development of the Steel and Foam Energy Reduction (SAFER) Barrier. George received the award at the annual gala at the Grosvenor House on behalf of the creators of the SAFER Barrier from Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the leader of the Bahrain International Grand Prix circuit. This is the fourth major award that has been presented to honor George and the SAFER Barrier development team. The SAFER Barrier also received the Louis Schwitzer Award, SEMA Motorsports Engineering Award and GM Racing Pioneer Award in 2002. The SAFER Barrier was installed in all four turns of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a pioneer in safety for drivers, cars and tracks -- in time for the 86th Indianapolis 500 in 2002. It since has been installed at more than a dozen other tracks, and the latest iteration will be installed at the Speedway in the spring.(IMS PR), see more on my Indy Track News page.(12-7-2004)"
As far as the cart safety team, I cannot find anything on its date of creation. The Delphi Safety team was created in 1996. For some reason there is not much info out there on defunct racing series. -
Great article Anthony. Glad IMS is finally being run like a business and not a personal check book to finance the "Vision".
Things are looking up but 15 years of scorched earth won't be fixed overnight. Unfortunately the TV ratings are still poor and that won't change anytime soon with the brilliant 10 year contract signed under the former regime. -
Brett not sure why you wonder what he said in his quote. "''I would like to jump in a time machine, go back to 1995, and tell the owners and Tony George not to split,'' Franchitti said. ''As soon as my time machine is done, I know where I'm going.''"
Pretty clear, he would love to go back and tell TG and the team owners not to split.
I am not sure there is anyone who wanted the split, and I don't think there is anyone who would not like to go back and prevent the split. But, as has been discussed ad nauseum, without the split carts management by team owners would have run all of ow racing into bankruptcy. If cart had such a wonderful product, then losing IMS would not have forced it into bankruptcy. If NASCAR lost Daytona or Charlotte, it would not fail like cart did.
Truth,
So you predicted that cart would go into bankruptcy and cease to exist while Indycar would continue on? I missed that prediction. -
I want to live in a city that has a garage structure to be proud of for it's innovating design!
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The Colts could have achieved that but chose to turn the last 2 games into an exhibition. Which, I deem as a rip-off for fans who paid full ticket price and had high hopes to see history in the making. The Colts took the buzz of the town an smashed it.
If you're not here to be competitive EVERY single game, then why bother even having those games that don't matter? Just forfeit prior to the game so that you don't waste anybody's time. I think the Colts need to refund the full ticket price of everyone who went to that last home game. They ripped off everyon who paid for the tickets and that was just wrong. It was kind of like the fans who went to see the busted F1 race a few years back. Big on promise, but not delivery.
Is it even possible to "quit" and have the best record? These 2 games have absolutely no bearing on a Super Bowl, which is and was their goal.
The Regular Season as of right now means squat. It's Playoffs and Positioning that matters and The Colts are right where they want to be AND HEALTHY.
Goodell is saying this because he has to. In all actuality there is nothing that can force Playoff teams to not rest players nor should there be.
It is an incredibly violent and high impact sport. To sit on your couch and tell them what to do is a bit ironic.
This team has done nothing but Win for its fans, put themselves in a great position for the Playoffs, and we should keep things in perspective as should Roger Goodell.