100%. I'm not paying this much money every year to watch flag football. Kick returns are one of the most exciting parts of the game; it can turn the momentum of the game around in a matter of seconds, more than any other play short of an interception or home-run touchdown pass or breakaway run.Originally Posted by MadtownPacker
Take that one off the table and you're taking a lot of the excitement out of it, for both the fans and the players. Look at the 1996 Super Bowl, where Desmond Howard took the momentum back from the Patriots in the 3rd quarter with that TD return, slamming the door in New Enlgand's face. Would that game have been anywhere near as exciting without that return? Or even have turned out the same way?
Or Nixon's return against the Niners this year? One of the best moments of that game, to that point. It was a huge part of that game.
Matt Lafleur has said a number of times this past season that our offense goes onto the field fired up and ready to rock and roll every time Nixon returns a kick; he says the whole team is excited and amped up whenever he catches the ball, because they want to watch him run it back. And when they run out onto the field afterward, they're totally pumped because of what he just did to try to put his teammates into the best possible field position. He has said that it's a huge inspiration for the whole team, that he just hurls himself headfirst into that wall of tacklers running straight at him at full speed. He thinks it's an invaluable way to start out every possession.
The NFL needs to stop pussyfying football in its never-ending quest to keep profitiziing it.
Is that even a word?
Either one of them, for that matter?
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