NFFL- The National Flag Football League

By sbozos_admin
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Updated: 12/25/2023

Dateline 2034- After death to a certain Hall of Fame QB and paralysis to another, NFL has overhauled the rules this past off-season to protect the Quarterback in ways the founding fathers of the league never could have imagined.

Sorry, but this is the direction the league is headed folks.

In the near future, in response to the multiple serious injuries suffered by QBs, the defense can no longer tackle the QB and the QB can no longer run past the line of scrimmage. The QB will wear a flag hanging from each of his or her hips along the waistline and when that flag is pulled, the QB will be ruled down.
If the QB runs past the line of scrimmage, the offense will be assessed a 5-yard penalty.
In 2023, almost 3/4 of the NFL teams’ QBs have been knocked out of the game or season with a serious injury, mostly caused by forceful impact from a defensive player. The rules to protect the QB are not working well enough. The players are simply too big, too strong, and too fast. No matter how they are taught to “pull up” or not to land on the QB, it is in the nature of the defensive player to try to clobber the QB and make him pay.

This is a QB driven league and successful teams have successful QBs who become $50 million stars marketed by the league. The QB brings the viewers, the viewers bring the ratings, and the ratings bring the advertisers. The ads support the league with billions of revenue dollars and the league needs star QBs to stay on the field.
So far in 2023, at least 21 out of the 32 teams have needed to use at least one backup QB in a game where the top guy was injured. Many teams have even used three or four QBs. These backups don’t sell ads. Joe Burrow and Aaron Rodgers on the sidelines holding a tablet do not score ratings or TDs.

The NFL’s largest market, New York, was devastated when Aaron Rodgers was lost for the Jets season on the fourth play of the first game with an Achilles tear. Daniel Jones of the Giants and his backup Tyrod Taylor both went down with serious injuries early in the season. Both these teams’ seasons were lost in September.

The failure of the General Managers of the New York teams and other teams in the league to secure and pay an adequate backup QB is a monumental lack of judgement and a reason for dismissal. “Gee, I never considered that the QB could get hurt…” Zach Wilson and Tommy DeVito are not going to cut it for more than a couple of games, I’m sorry.
On the flip side, Bengals backup Jake Browning, a solid QB from U. of Washington has picked it up in the absence of Joe Burrow and excelled and has his team in playoff contention. But those situations are rare.

We spend too many minutes on Sunday watching players kneel while QBs and others are carted off the field on a stretcher. See Damar Hamlin. Thoughts and prayers please. The Blue Tent gets more air time than the cheerleaders, what’s up with that? Lame QBs warming up to enter the game and “manage” it occurs far too often. Scared to pass three times and punt is not NFL football.
So, what are we going to do, Jack Lambert, put a dress on ‘em? Well, unfortunately, in a way, yes. This will happen, the flag wearing QB. We already have a Pro Bowl that is now Flag Football. There is a new league of former players playing flag football now getting started.

When the day comes that big-time QB dies from a brain injury or is paralyzed by a neck injury, the big shots will fly their private jets to Phoenix for the annual meeting and after five or six years of haggling, the ‘new” QB rule will be put into place, like it or not.

-HB