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I think style changes the game. I had to accept the change of uniforms for the TiVo guys and although our criteria covers a wide range of topics, we were on top. to the channel after further review, we narrowed our list down to just a top 10. I'm sorry I had to do it so slowly, but it's just a numbers game. We start our countdown with a kicker glasses application. Pete Goggle AK was an underrated pioneer. he changed the kicking game forever Pete, like a dog, revolutionized NFL kickers, the first football style kicker today we accept that every team needs a football style kicker who looks like he belongs in a boy band instead of shoulder pads .

The idea was as radical as the Beatles. hair, you can go back as far as kickers Watt were offensive linemen, played another position, created an avenue to just being a kicker, our number 10, which changed the game, caused the kicking revolution and was the result of a real world revolution in Hungary that forced the goggle AK family to immigrate to the US here young Pete discovered American football the reason I play because all the cool kids play and all the girls they dated you know They were baby soccer players so I say, hey, listen, I can try this game so I can watch some of the pro games guys like Lou Groza the first time I saw him kick I said what a fun way to kick a ball.

Have I ever tried soccer style? No, that's afraid of breaking my leg or something in 1964. AK was signed by the Buffalo Bills and his wing style was an epiphany to the rest of the football world. I could not believe it. A 135-pound guy kicked the ball. So far you can get a lot more speed with your legs to the side and you can go forward and that's equal to the distance, no one wanted to kick a ball straight anymore once you saw Goggle AK kick a ball football style, it was great, you opened the door to many football-style kickers of that era, Darrow, who never dresses premium. a professional football game until this year these Sidewinders were a new generation of football players who looked nothing like football players when I picked up girl your cousin the first field goal a kick for me they want a high five and he said : I'll take the touchdown I can't cut the touch-up, you know, I can't take Dutch down, it always seems like the elevator didn't go up to the top floor from the beginning.

Kickers have been counted on for an annual display of mistakes and mistakes dancing in the air and It looks like he hurt his knee, but for all his quirks, the football-style kicker changed the game and the 1950 championship Lou Groza became the Lord. Klotz kicked a dramatic 16-yard field goal to win it fifty years later Adam Vinatieri took that title when he kicked a football-style 45-yarder in a snowstorm, the football stop changing the game down to how to move the goalposts backward. I patented this kick, everyone behind me every time someone goes to Kenya, you give me a quarter, at least a quarter, this is, yes, this has a goal: Lombard lifestyle, a certain magic still lingers in the same name.

Some filmmakers turn NFL action into art. It wouldn't be right to have a list of the top 10 things that change the game and not mention Lawrence Taylor, in fact, it might be downright, it didn't take offenses long to learn that it's better to control 56 if you want to be successful. he changed the way the game was played on offense they had to do something Joe Gibbs how to design a blocking scheme for Lawrence Taylor one of the things was to 1 back we took a tight one and just put him on a line of scrimmage in front of Lawrence Taylor, great football players, change your strategy, in this case Lawrence Taylor helped us overcome the back offense while LT altered the offenses, it was an offense that made our list of game changing things, I don't know which The true label of the West Coast offense is, but I know that it is a very successful system that has won championships, well known for a history of winning championships.

The origins of football's most famous offense are not so familiar. The seeds of the West Coast offense were planted. in Cincinnati by Bill Walsh to create a passing game that was an extension of the running game, we were an expansion team and we couldn't run the ball because we didn't have the offensive lineman depth or the talent and running backs. Smoke Bill, we keep trying the same thing and keep getting beat up in our predator time. If you think about it, the West Coast offense was born from a Bill Walsh guy who did it in Cincinnati, so it should be the successful Midwest Coast offense in Cincinnati.

Our No. 9 didn't achieve groundbreaking notoriety until Walsh was hired as the 49ers' head coach in 1979, before he got there. Soccer was Smash Mouth. The football was coming out of the ball, hitting people. Actually, football didn't totally change football defense, the West Coast offense took the theory that you need the run to set up the pass and said, well, do you need the run to set up the pass or ten, The short pass set up the pass that seemed against? the basics of football, but Walsh was a progressive enough guy to understand the direction the league was taking and this was the way to go for a lot of people at the time we were giving Fitz a call nickel offensive.

So pitching under pressure soon leaves you behind, those nickels and dimes became the currency of the kingdom as the West Coast offense became more accepted and celebrated, that identity began to change. Walsh's coaching disciples were in high demand and made their own contributions to the system. election like a bunch of ideas that we are basically good, the West Coast has been absorbed by everyone else to the point that it almost doesn't exist anymore. I don't know if anyone runs the pure West Coast offense anymore, but I don't know. I know someone who doesn't run any element of this.

The West Coast offense over time has changed a lot from what it was, it has taken many different forms, but the basic principles of timing quick throw routes and receivers who can gain yards later. The trick that still stands is what Bill did, it's the test of time and that to me is the lasting proof of how good that system is. The number 8 thing that changed the game. FL Phil. How does NFL Films impact the way we watch football? I'm telling this to NFL Films hmm that's no big deal it stops with a whistle and ends with a gun 60 minutes of close inaction from kickoff to touchdown fans take for granted NFL Films we don't like it If we take our lives for granted, wives take dozens for granted Granted that when something has been so good for so long it's human nature, we take it for granted, that's how football used to be seen on TV, but that It was before Steve Sabol and a bunch of hungry filmmakers took the field and turned it into something different this 33d.

It means the sport became glamorous almost like you were putting out a movie every week and you see the dirt flying and you see the sweat and you see the expression on the faces, it turned it into an art form, a tight spiral that occupies the center of the screen. I never know how NFL Films photographers just get the football out slowly and it ends up nestled in some receiver's hands for a touchdown when you watch the Network broadcast today, the influence of NFL Films' cinematography techniques is easy to see , this was quick Ball Baby and not just a video but the sound to hear Vince Lombardi's voice could have been anything but a coach with a voice like that taking us right to the bench, right to the shacks, just keep the complicated latent ball in the field, guys. it's our win it's our time NFL Films make you a part of what was happening on the field add a symphony of classic original music and you have the formula for our game-changing number eight I'm a big hockey fan, I like the hockey than football, which I'm sure will be edited out of this interview, but yeah, but NHL fans never have a complete record to look back on.

NFL Films has given us something to watch and relive. I think the impact. NFL films in that sense have been invaluable to football fans, you know, before they had VCRs and stuff, if you didn't have it on NFL Films, you never saw that play again. I think the network is ready to put things out there and I felt There's a lot to do with the NFL gaining awareness today, being in the top ten, we'll find out what the space race had to do with the game changing into a track and field competition. the fountain. Hey, before we continue our countdown, let's take a look at something.

That forever changed the face of NFL fandom. It's a phenomenon known as fantasy football. How does it work? Basically, a group of football fans get together and hold a draft. Yeah, I think fantasy football has been very, very, very good for the game. Oh, TJ. who's your mom makes people understand the nuances you're referring to TJ who's Sherman's otta from the bracelets put them in the board house Mazzilli how well your draft picks perform in real life Sunday determines if your fantasy team is a winner or also ran on a tangent here, but the bands should be rooting for their team, not this team's quarterback, there is a wide receiver from that team and the running back from another team, if you were good enough to be GM, you would be GM every time defenses Catch up with offenses, make it easier for offenses.

What happened during the '70s and mid-'70s started to see the defense dominating the game, shutting down offenses, and people telling the other guys in the league office that they were worried because the scores were too low, teams weren't scoring enough touchdowns, there were too many field goals. I was on the competition committee and our mandate from the owners was to open up the game to make it more exciting every year, the National Football League introduces some rule changes the changes are designed to add excitement to the fans because they should help opening up the passing game and consequently scoring, while our number seven was well received by most teams, one franchise saw the changes as an affront to their style of football, they really were. trying to legislate the game too slow to maintain the style, especially on defense, I think it was a direct result of what that Iron Curtain did, they dominated the '70s, you know, they had to do something to send the guys to hell, the first jeans the leader adopted were to limit the amount of contact between defensive backs and receivers previously in a 1a receiver would come off the line of scrimmage defensive backs would go up and get them out of the quick round when you have defensive backs that can go up and hit a receiver's head the entire field, as long as it kept them in front of him, which made it difficult for a receiver to get loose, so we liberalized it by putting in the five yard rule that only one receiver could be blocked in a five yard field. yard area This is an example of a legal Chuck by a defensive back on a wide receiver in the yard area now, after leaving the five yard area, he failed to touch a pass interference call from Murphy, for what many excellent physical quarterbacks now had limitations and it was like Christmas for wide receivers.

I'm going to cover Hill Carmichael one-on-one under the new rules, freeing up receivers with a useless test if the league hadn't taken the next step of ensuring better pass protection for the quarterbacks and linemen they used to have. their hands there and like that, they were throwing dying elbows and chest shots and you could block your eyes that way, so our idea was to liberalize the pass blocking so you could open your hands and command. of leading the defensive man with his hands slightly open or closed should be inside the blocker's elbows and can be pushed forward to contact an opponent.

Those rule changes along the offensive line and what the offensive line was allowed to get away with is the biggest change from what happened in the NFL from 1970 to 1977, no quarterback managed more than 30touchdowns in a season since the rules changed, that mark has been eclipsed 39 times. I'm ready for the 50th low touchdown, another record when you look at the numbers and which quarterbacks. we've been able to do what the receivers have done, you can tie it back to those rules, 23rd touchdown reception, as much as we hoped they would work, the rules work to achieve what we wanted to achieve, more big players, more touchdowns, more excitement in the game so that's it the latest refinements in the game of football the game the Astrodome the home of the Houston Oilers a home of sound and splendor of the game dubbed the eighth wonder of the world when it opened in 1965 the Astrodome was a modern wonder , but unlike the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon, attempts at horticulture in stadiums failed, the grass died, just as when artificial grass was invented, this is artificial glass or a star truck in which they put it, it was It's going to look great on TV and everyone got their big return because it was durable and required no maintenance oh I think it's cool that we played in Seattle.

He ordered a strip for this about two weeks ago to practice this game, so it's cool, it's cool, I think it's going to be one of the things. in the future and I feel like the nephew Chola National Football League and American League stadiums like an annoying weed started sprouting everywhere in 1996, half of all NFL stadiums use some type of artificial turf , but even faster than their proliferation was how our number six things changed the game, they certainly made it faster and when the game was faster, your skill position players were players who could take control of the game, hit and switch the game the way speed affected everything because you started looking for faster players. and made the pursuit of speed the number one priority, while the artificial turf made the game light and fast, it also delivered a thunderous beating, it was a horrible surface, there was no padding underneath, I couldn't believe men like that size will play real tackle football. on such a hard surface it was like painting cream asphalt which was really bad, there were teams that actually practiced on it and they had a training pitch on artificial grass as Jeff obviously gets a lot hotter than normal grass but I can remember a game that was 128 degrees a foot off the turf and they burned the bottom of your feet, unfortunately the burned feet weren't the only thing that burned for others, their injuries on the turf were much more serious, well the astroturf changed the panorama of many knees, they go to war during a launch. true, all the BT pain he has in his right knee stopped while he made his cut in his propellers went limp with the ball.

You hate to see that I haven't come across any players who said they enjoyed playing with her. I'm certainly probably starting my career a year ago. When you think of artificial turf, you think of Veterans Stadium. I always remember the episode of Hard Knocks that was fixed where Brian Billick literally put his foot in the scenes. I can't get to the bottom. That way, while players can play on the surface, their playing careers are in jeopardy, the best science ultimately marks artificial turf for NFL extinction. What started the tournament was the invention of the field. Turn synthetic grass which is made of rubber pellets and is too soft like grass for the most part. enough i think the filter has been a positive addition to the nfl if there was a replacement for us the grass field the grass has been a great replacement next great idea hold the referees accountable we hit rewind on the most controversial innovation in the game no meeting Before us continues our countdown of the top ten things that have changed the game, let's recap, don't go back, sprout in the era of wacky kicking babies.

I keep the touchdown, I keep contact number nine, the west coast just used ghost on ghost. It seemed to go against the basic principles of American football. NFL movie number eight highlights the grace of the game and felt cinematic. It has been invaluable to football fans. It was never established. The receivers love the rule 78 changes and they became more of a passing game. Astroturf number six is ​​a panty to play opt sir and now thing number five to change the game instant replay anything that adds more information about the game the fans have loved from the beginning you know instant replay where you can See all the evil and stuff.

I love that great idea. The first time instant replay was used in a football game was in the 1963 Army Navy game on a Raleigh Stitch touchdown, so it instantly became a staple of sports broadcasting. Jerry Kramer makes a key block for Bart Starr in this sneaky quarterback for the Win is Yes for the defense, they play, but as you will see, Jerry Kramer takes them out of there, it is a good block and as such has totally changed the way when everyone watched the game and I think because soccer is a type of game where there is time. between plays was perfect with football, you have a break in the game, they're going to reconvene, we can get a food bank and replace it and then as a broadcaster you like to put your points across and make the fan think. back up a little bit, that's what's sophisticated about the game of football, the fact that they can go back and stop it and show you exactly what's going on once you watch the penetration here the instant replay makes you feel like you'll be better off at their houses than you guys in the stadium great idea to make them hold referees accountable for horrible decisions.

I need so many games against us, the little Oakland Raiders that we were, the officials caught us screwed, our #5 game-changing thing started causing problems because the TV audience had a better view of close plays than the refs, the refs didn't They had the luxury that we enjoyed of seeing which is what I remember the first time I saw the replay in slow motion where it showed that the referees had to sing wrong. I was a kid, it was on Monday Night Football Frank and Dandy tried to cover up for the referees because the men in their company and Howard cook, so this is outrageous, it's absurd, all I have to do is roll a tape on 1986, the league began to look. tape, the replay official will be placed in a side replay booth that will house two television monitors and high-speed video recorders.

The replay official will complete the review of him within a reasonable amount of time, probably 15 to 20 seconds, but the NFL underestimated the time it took. would take the use of this high-tech equipment the interruptions in a game you stopped sweating when you came back and played the next snap it is not a matter of problem if the eye in the sky decided to win to call a challenge not for the officials or coaches we do not have a replay they are watching are the replay disappeared in 93 but the problems continued the straw that broke the camel's back was a bad decision that cost the Seahawks a playoff berth in 1998 in the years that followed repeated red flags secured momentum in the game of today's most successful challenge system, I think it's wonderful and the more technology the better, if you looked at it clearly, the five main people who created football as a major American sport.

Paul Brown would be on that top five list. Paul Brown has always been a man ahead of his time, he was the owner of his most active gastronomic brain that has ever analyzed the simple game of professional football. He was a defender of difference and a visionary. Well, how they named the team after him for crying out loud. How many other boys have you ever had? That the powerful Cleveland Brown appears on the page after leaving the Browns and then arriving in Cincinnati creates a new franchise. Paul Brown is credited with founding the 116th NFL position we know today, but perhaps what's not common knowledge is how he changed the game Paul was as innovative as anyone in league history, the first with the mask in the playbooks spent the night before the game and I will host the full-time coaches, which means he started all that, we were the team that had The messenger guard Paul came out tanned from the messages they send to the guys of a side to side of the game and blame the coaches for the first time, they send the place and the pride of that, the quarterbacks just call it a game, then he came up with the idea of ​​putting a radio on the quarterbacks. helmet This helmet was worn by George Ratterman when Paul Brown had a radio receiver inserted into his quarterback's earpiece.

I felt like an idiot with that thing because it wasn't an antenna and you had to turn like that so I had to stand up. out of the huddle, going like that, you know, until it came in loud and clear, while advancements like the practice squad and the film studio spun off by design, at least one of the Browns' fall innovations sprung by accident, it didn't happen again, I think. stumbled on the way back a little too quickly, just handed it to Marion Motley and of course it passed and all of a sudden the Browns saw that she's a widow, we've got a play here and they started refining it and working . in putting the playbook and it became what we now know to be the tie game with a master's degree in education Paul Brown used academic principles to transform football into a thinking man's game Paul Brown put teaching into training brought the classroom to professional football Lou Groza has the question and coach Paul has the answer before everything was done on the field.

Paul Brown taught you in a classroom environment that he wanted smart football players and we took two types of tests, one was basically an intelligence test and the other was a personality test the players weren't the only ones who learned at our knees. number four something that changed the game a set style of Paul Brown was a style that was adopted by all the coaches who came after him Vince Lombardi came to our training again The first two years before anyone heard of him and watched what things Paul Brown did when you think about the overall organization of a team, how to run a practice, how to run meetings and all the things that are still involved today, came from Paul Brown during an era of racial inequality Paul Brown also played a key role Paul Brown never thought about hiring black players for the Browns.

I told him I was upset because I didn't care if they were white, black and yellow. He was behind 35 or 40. The greatest football players this was integrating into a professional sport even before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, so what Paul Brown did cannot be understated in history. of the game. He was the most important person who has brought the quality of football to what it is. Today, in the top 10 of national football, we'll take a look at something that made it harder to keep track of who's praying to relive the best games of the early 1920s.

College football was king, but the transfer of the scepter. In 1925, when the Chicago Bears signed the college superstar, Red Grange Cranes had played for the University of Illinois and was the most famous college football player of his era. Grange is filled with celebrities in stadiums from coast to coast, boosting the popularity of the NFL forever. changing the game gave validity to the league made people want to watch it that's what it meant to professional football gave it a reason to exist granger's signing was also significant because he chose which team he wanted to play for for a freedom that would become a point of contention in the NFL for the next 67 years, another big thing that changed the game of free agency in the past, you know you're with the team, you'd stay with the team and you'd end up with that team because there was no free slavery agency players their emancipation began after the 1987 strike with a limited form of free agency but it was not until 1992 when a court ruling gave the players the right to unrestricted free agency there is no doubt about the movement of the players What started as Plan B has drastically changed the game. great, you could identify a professional team with a player, when you turned on the television, suddenly you saw Reggie Wade, that was Philadelphia and when Reggie White went to Green Bay, I mean all the circuits, only the blue players celebrated their new freedom by closing lucrative deals.

With teams willing to open their wallets, I think a clear move has been good for the game, naturally. I fought really hard to try to make sure we got it done, but I also think that helped a lot of teams before free agency was considered. the best way to build a winner our number three, the thing that changed the game putting that process intospeed dial teams can improve much more quickly in an era of free agency you can identify specific spots and fill those spots with accomplished players nothing we wouldn't be where we are without the guys that came to us like Briggs what it has done is give it hope to many teams and many fans hope every year that their team can be the one that can change the situation.

Roster changes were easier with free agency, but the salary cap, a system that put a limit on club payrolls, seemed to put revolving doors in team locker rooms, changed everything, changed the way you maintained to the team together, if you could keep the team together, now it's a bit of a transient nature of the game. that there is a constant change in personnel and I'm sorry we had to do it so early, but it's just a numbers game, free agency has given the NFL a bit of a nomadic feel and I think that has hurt the league over the years. throughout the game. it's good, there's not that much depth, a lot of guys haven't heard of much movement in college, every year you graduate a quarter of your team and recruit a new group, basically that's what's happening now in the NFL: probably free agency. each team starts a new season with 1,518 new players, probably about 1 in every 13 balls, free agency, increase in player turnover, also gave rise to a year-round sport, free agency keeps football in the cycle news, you know, 365 days a year, you have an offensive. that really needs that, which is during James I love the offseason in the NFL because there's a lot of movement and you wonder what this team is going to do to help themselves with the air of free agency, which you're really rooting for.

It's the uniform, you know, all these guys come and go and they fill them out differently, but the only thing that remains is that the uniform has to be accepted in free agency because that's football today and I think fans learn if you enjoy football, that's another part. enjoy below it's little more than a wildly positive thing well let's just say it's poverty 1 million fans The most controversial omission from our list of the top 10 game changing things is former NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle . I don't think anyone has been more. important to the growth of American sports in the 20th century Pete Rozelle he could see what the NFL was but he clearly had a vision that could be something even more special it was Rozelle who sold the league to America for a little invention called television .

We know there's been a statistic for a long time that only 2% of all football fans go to games, most of the other 98% camp comfortably at home while a host of electronics bring them the game gets ratings. is bulletproof are Sunday afternoons in winter and an autumn Namath has not been shy this week. Word is the Jets are going to win. He doesn't even predict it. He said. I guarantee that the game fits perfectly on the screen. People love violence. I love Kellen Winslow's competitive nature when he gets help off the field. They love to watch guys do things.

They couldn't do it before TV fans had heard dramatic endings on the radio, but after they got to see the first televised sudden death overtime ending, the world would never go back. be the same and, in my opinion, Pete Rozelle deserves a lot of credit. Rozelle came up with the idea of ​​revenue sharing that ensured that both large and small market teams would thrive on television, as long as their uniforms met the new codes, the game had to make some adjustments to make it compatible with television , since 61 all teams wore. name plates on the back of their jersey that were mainly made to benefit the fans, there was no need to have the show in front of you in the late 60's, Rozelle had another idea, they wanted a chance to go to prime time, We wanted to expand our television.

ABC coverage needed some shows that were in third place, so I thought Monday Night might be doable when you know, I mean when the Monday Night people believed in work, but he believed Monday Night Football would take the NFL to the next level that Monday Night Football brought. in additional cameras that offered new angles on the action, he ushered in celebrity guests and pioneered the wild tease spot. I was never so proud of myself on primetime television Phil Phil galaxy took the pliers to another level he took the audience to another level and everyone I was watching him just convince people that sports was more than just a Saturday and Sunday afternoon programming phenomenon, once this did, it was onwards, Christian soldiers, let's have a great life and professional sports, another innovation and the way we follow the game was the first live track. -On today's NFL show, football news was combined with off-the-field features, courtesy of former Miss America Phyllis George, she would go and do great interviews with people like Roger Staubach and I enjoy sex as much as Joe named and then for me the cookies Atlanta has a win, it's a must-win situation and they could win it with a field goal.

Television took it from a sport to basically a way of life. Great idea. On television today we even hear that there is an entire network dedicated just to the NFL. You can't put enough NFL football on TV, it's America's sport, what's coming today was ten years of us versus now, find out why a bitter war tops our list of game-changing things before May we reveal our number one thing that changed the game. let's recap the numbers from 10 to 2 to the sidewalk through glasses and a football star, it was just a cool number, not Walsh's sparks of wisdom and the offensive revolution, very good walls of posters to change the way the offensive coordinators attack defense, number eight lights, camera action, NFL movies based on mobymax NFL.

The movies made you part of what was happening on the field, we cracked down on aggressive TVs, so we liberalized it by putting in the five yard rules. The number six artificial turf comes and goes, but burns its legacy in the game. It certainly made the game go faster. five instant replays make us all experts that's the sophisticated thing about the game of football number four everything Brown stands out as the game's greatest innovator well how did they call it team aspirin to cry out loud number three you can identify specific points and the hubbub of Bilbo with accomplished players free agency is far from free, but it gives each team opportunity number two.

Television makes football a fan favorite. In the future this game was going to be on TV and now the number one thing that changed the game and the FL war was kind of disdain we didn't think much about I'm the National Football League and you weren't ten years of us Against them we were destroying each other we had to do something about it In 1960 the American Football League arrived on the national scene with all the subtlety of a circus act and challenged the NFL's blockade on professional football fans. It's really kind of a media thing at first, they portrayed it as an inferior league, but they had bright young talent, they had bright new coaches with new philosophies like Hank Stram and Sid Gillman I don't think the NFL really took them seriously.

You have to think about, here's Lamar Hunt, the founder of the league, he's 27 years old. You had competition for draft picks and we're just eliminating the cost. doing business in the NFL and this created some bad will between the two leagues and from then on it snowballed and this is a little more dire. What they would also do is the weekend before the draft they would take the player out to dinner and more or less kidnap, essentially trying to keep that player away from the AFL representative, which brings us back to our number 10 thing they changed the game.

Pete, bug-eyed, back in the old country, they said, you know, if you do it right, you know you can ask for yourself. You can be embarrassed to ask for a raise, but the bills will give it to me, so I became a free agent and the Giants, I mean, I didn't realize that this really created a war between the two leases, that was the first case of The NFL attacks an AFL team over a player, they are attacking our quarterbacks, they are attacking our stars and we went back and graded, the bitterness was growing the day I met with Jill Fast, the commissioner of the new American Football League. tried to develop a general policy of cooperation and harmony and then the neighbor came along and got the full contract for a hundred thousand dollars, you know, four hundred thousand dollars at that time, it's crazy if the teams and both leagues were still spending the amount of money that they They were spending on players that the franchises were going to sink and that in the end was a decisive factor.

There would be teams in both directions that would suffer a lot if there was not a merger. I feel that the league issue that occurred in the Los Angeles Coliseum today is not pomp and Jara nation Within the first thing we did, we implemented the immersion pushing the Super Bowl in California, the NFL sponsors won the first two Super Bowls, but the score was tied 2-2 after four, that's pretty fantastic, it's a beautiful trophy and it really is a satisfying conclusion. At 10 years into the American Football League, it's one of those great ideas that has stood the test of time and has only grown as God has become a kind of American food that people who don't know the difference between soccer ball and a hockey puck you will see.

The Super Bowl is ironic that the main thing that changed the game was a bitter war, but from that came the greatest thing about the NFL and the merger of the two legs had a lot to do with football being a new favorite sport in America on any list. There will be things that some feel have been overlooked, I'd better put them there. It's unfair right now. The oversights, just the light bulbs demux might not see the hash marks, will definitely be a game changer, but with apologies to mr. Sayers Hash Marks will have to wait for a sequel because that's all the time we have for this list of the top ten things that change the game.