I may be a guy but I still think US football
games are pretty boring.
So let's take your standard football field,
and then cover the whole thing with a flat
foam pad. Let's take lots of foam and put
in walls 3-10 feet high. Let's put giant
foam blocks on the field to make it
uneven. Let's
also add some steel poles
with ropes hanging off of them that
players can swing on. Some of the foam
blocks are anchored, but some aren't, so
some of the more sophisticated
strategies can involve some of the teams
moving blocks around.
I'm not sure how to assemble these
things on a field, but wouldn't this make
football more fun to watch?
We'd also have to change the rules, I
guess. Every score would have to be
a touchdown, but a team would get
different amount of points depending on
where on the endzone the touchdown
was scored. Instead of a free kick, the
team coach would choose a time (less
time gets the team more points) and a
member of the team, starting from a
certain position on the field, has to carry
the ball to the endzone in the selected
time. To make this kind of time selection
work, now we need to have fractional
points.
Also, players should be able to roll on
landing, so for a player to be down they
would need to be in contact with an
opponent.
There should also be handles on the
ropes so players can hold on to them
while holding the ball, and weights on
the ends so that the player with the ball
can grab a rope swung up to him by a
teammate.