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Message: <blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 5694596" data-attributes="member: 43749">Football gets rules changes every single year, many of them changing the way the game is played. Lots of these changes have altered the way the game is played, especially in favor of emphasizing the passing game to the detriment of defensive play and running attacks.Many of the rules on the books now weren't there a generation ago - ask somebody who hasn't watched football since the early 1990s about a two-point conversion and they'd probably bawl you out for yammering on about college football instead of the NFL. As to rules changes that divide the community, there have been football fans decrying the death of the game as they know it for years. Just last year the NFL passed new rules restricting hits on wide receivers, and the gamut of reactions ran from those who thought it was necessary for the safety of the players to those who claim that the players are getting soft and the new rules are ruining the physicality of the game.There are football fans who have sworn off watching the sport as long as the current commissioner is in charge of the NFL, those who do nothing but pop in tapes of old games back when the sport was pure and perfect, and those who pick fights with anyone who criticizes the sport as it is right now.On a local scale, fans will get into arguments when their teams change coaches, quarterbacks, or uniforms. And if you ever want to commit suicide by mob, go into Cleveland wearing a Baltimore Ravens (i.e., Cleveland Browns 2nd edition) shirt.The only reason people around here might see something like football as less divisive than the edition wars about D&D is a lack of exposure to the former. Anything that enough people are passionate about is going to inspire a lot of heated argument, be it sports or boardgames or tabletop RPGs.</blockquote>

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