If I could change the NFL rules.
1 ) Expand the NFL roster to 55 players, and let them all dress for games.
2 ) Move kickoffs back 5 yards so the fans can see returns. No one wants to see a touchback. If someone gets hurt, you have 54 players other players to use.
3 ) Allow any play that is not whistled dead to be red flagged, including judgment calls. Why not? If your wrong, it costs the team throwing the red flag a time out.
4 ) Hire a replay official team in NY of three people who can review red flagged plays, and show their vote to the fans. 2-1 or 3-0 = the team who threw the red flag gets the play overturned.
5 ) Offer ten game balls, and ten NFL jersey's to be raffled off to the fans in the stadium. Sure the odds are long, but I bet the fans would appreciate it. Surely the NFL can afford to do this
7 ) Make all concussions a 1-week mandatory out of action injury. If a second concussion occurs during a season, it's a two week out of action injury. For the playoffs, though it's a team decision.
8 ) The Commissioner must pass a vote of confidence every 4 years with 22 or more owners voting for him to remain in office. This would be slightly less than a 70% majority vote to keep him.
9 ) Eliminate Thursday night games. Move them to Friday night. Both the fans and players would appreciate this, I think.
10 ) With the decline in high school participation in the USA, the NFL will need to expand its horizons. The NBA gets lots of talent from Europe. Fund a high school football program in the larger cities in Western and Eastern Europe.
11 ) Go to full-time officials. Also, keep stats on them in terms of blown calls, firing the bottom 5% every year.
12 ) Cut one pre-season game, and play 17 regular season games with two bye weeks.