As you may have heard, the Northwestern – Illinois game at Wrigley this week will have a rule where the offensive team always drives east to west, due to safety concerns about the wall being too close to the east end zone. This got me thinking… what other sports can we corrupt for the sake of venue?
- The NHL has little presence in the Southwest, so let’s have them play on roller skates outdoors.
- Let’s use the empty NHL arena for an NBA game, complete with ice.
- In golf, let’s cut the space in half, thus doubling profits, by teeing off from the green. It’s like basketball where you have to take your rebound to the half-court line; you have to drive past a line, then approach it back.
- Arena baseball, where homeruns just ricochet back to the playing surface, thus becoming live balls again. Yes, the HR fences would be 200 feet, and there’d only be 6 position players, with the pitcher doubling as a second bagger.
- Let’s play soccer in the one country where nobody cares enough about soccer to even call it by its proper name.
- Let’s have a giant alien-ship looking device cover an entire football field so that, hopefully, nobody can see how awful the home team truly is.
Well, I guess we can check two of these off.
