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Roger Goodell talks kickoff rules, Super Bowl outside U.S.NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said on Saturday that the results of the new kickoff rules are "incredibly promising," with just over 30 percent of kickoffs returned in 2024, up from 20 percent last season.,Speaking at a fan forum in London ahead of Sunday's game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and ...

Commissioner For A Day: Let’s Make Kickoffs Worth SomethingDom Cosentino is now the NFL commissioner… in this video we made. Join me and Dom in Commissioner for a Day, the show that gives one Deadspin staffer unlimited power to change one rule in a sport of their choice....

What Time Does 'What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?' Start?The time has come once again for the “big game,” the football-related contest that surrounds every first Sunday of February, the race to the top for the big trophy. That trophy is, of course, dominance over other grimy web publications who engage in the now-annual, semi-hallowed practice of debasing...

Ohio State Returns Momentum To Michigan With Muffed Fair Catch Attempt

For a majority of the first half, Ohio State has turned Michigan’s top-ranked defense into mincemeat. Dwayne Haskins has thrown for three touchdowns and hasn’t been under any serious pressure all game. So when Michigan scored its first touchdown of the day to cut Ohio State’s lead down to eight with...

Kansas Runs Hidden-Man Kick Return

Kansas is, as in most years, a miserably bad football team. But today they did something neat:...

New Touchback Rule Designed To Reduce Number Of Kickoff Returns Is Actually Increasing Them<em></em>

I do not like to say I told you so (I love to say it), but all my haters and doubters (there were none) can eat every last speck of my shit. ...

The Strangest Kickoff You'll Ever See Happened In A Real College Game

Eastern Michigan smoked Charlotte tonight, but the highlight of the game was a strangely-competent EMU team kicking off from the 49ers’ 20-yard line after a series of personal fouls drawn during and after the Eagles pulled off a pick-six. We never thought we’d see this once, but then we saw it again...

Murray St. Forced To Start At 1-Yard-Line After Official Hallucinates Fair Catch Call On Kickoff

Murray State’s day is bad enough as they get walloped by the Illini, but it didn’t help that officials declared the Racers called for a fair catch on a kickoff early in the fourth quarter—at the one yard line....