NFL News: Are Kickoff Changes for Player Safety, or Owner Pocketbooks?

March 24, 2011   ·   Nick Sero   ·   Jump to comments

The NFL has recently made some rule changes that aren’t sitting too well with their fans or their players. Roger Goodell and his fellow NFL employees have been looking in to ways to make the game of football safer.
Last year new rules were enforced on helmet-to-helmet hitting, although there were questions on how to enforce the new rules there weren’t many people against them. Sure, there was a hug stink in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room about the changes, but that was focused more on the outlandish fines and questionable calls that unfolded. If you ask anyone in the Steelers’ locker room if concussions need to be reduced, you won’t hear one “No.”
You will definitely find some athletes in the AFC North opposed to the new rule changes, however. The new rules state that NFL kickoffs will start at the 35 yard line instead of the 30, a move the NFL hopes will cause more touchbacks and thus fewer injuries. Is that what is really going to ha...

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