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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 509623">About 1/3 of the teams don't make much money and another 1/3 are not worth the investment.  Most NFL teams qualify as hobbies.Then consider what goes into a rule change.  The new ball carrier spearing rule is one example.  The league reviewed every instance of ball carrier-to-defender contact that took place last year and concluded this penalty would have been called 3 times.  That entails some number of gigabytes of tape snippets archived for support of the rule.Add to it the reams of reports submitted to the rules committee, meeting minutes, etc.Now add the instructional materials for training the referees with a different set of tape snippets illustrating instances of the penalty along with similar instances where penalties should not be called.You can't measure the size of the rules based on the number of pages in the book just as you cannot judge the amount of regulation from the length of a bill.In any case, legislation, NFL rules and sausage have one thing in common...you don't want to see them being made.</blockquote>

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