Friday, November 02, 2007

Fifteen Minute Rule Proposed

A new rule has been proposed by some players to the CFL Committee in order to encourage the timely start of scheduled games. Last week both games began more than 30-minutes after their scheduled start time, and some games have started a lot later than that for no significant reason. Suffice to say that this tardiness is unfair to the team that arrives on time and unacceptable to everyone else who has their day delayed for no good reason, so a 15-minute rule has been proposed that would penalize the team that does not arrive within 15-minutes of the scheduled start time by forfeiting the coin toss. Technicalities and specifics will be discussed this weekend but the rule is as simple as it sounds: If a team cant start playing within those 15-minutes because some players are late, and the other team has enough players to begin the game, then the tardy team would lose the coin toss. So if this rule is indeed approved by the CFL Committee after this week's games, then some players may want to consider not turning the clock back this Sunday so that they get to the game on time next week.

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