Unveiling Revolutionary Changes in Football: The Future of the Game

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Hello my football friends.

This is Darren Hayes of pigskindispatch.com welcome once again to the Pig Pen, your portal Positive Football history.

And welcome to an edition where we get to talk about some things going on, some recent news in football history that really make it kind of interesting and access to some of them about football's future.

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So let's get into some of the news now.

First off, you know we're going to talk a little bit about my Franklin book, the World's Greatest Pro Gridiron Team in a second because I have some news breaking on that.

It was some correction in the book, something new that I learned here in the last week.

But before, let's talk about some recent things that have come out.

Now it was just came out on NBC.com where I see that they were talking about the UFL is doing away with the onside kick.

The NFL has been talking maybe moving to Kickoff line where the kicker is back to the 35 and there's some other varieties.

We'll see what happens between these winter meetings that are coming up and some of the rules interpretations they'll be having very soon for where they establish the new league rules.

But.

But the UFL has put another twist by doing away with the onside kick.

And you may say, well, how can teams ever come back?

Well, they have an option.

Instead of an onside kick, they are putting the team at 4th and 12 from the 28 yard line, which makes it kind of interesting.

You know, you have to get 12 yards on a play and to keep the ball.

And you know, I think that might be very interesting to watch the UFO as they go to do that.

Have, of course we have to get into a situation where you would have the need for a team to be down by a score or two and need the ball quickly and you have to go into that onside kick situation.

But we'll see what happens with that and if maybe someday the NFL will adopt that too.

Who knows.

Just makes it interesting.

Interesting flavor for football.

But one thing that the NFL is going to do is they are no longer going to have measurements with, with the chains that will not be that.

The chains will still be on each side of the field, but they will be as a backup system because the NFL is going virtual.

You will be virtually tell if the ball reached the line again or not.

I think they're doing it both through some video and through some technology in the football with some microchips or something to see where location is.

But it should be more accurate and not just off the eyeballs of the officials.

And you know, sometimes that comes out a little bit differently than we thought.

Sometimes they have to bring out an index card to see if you got a first down as Gene Stertor once did in an NFL game.

But that.

That's some interesting things coming up on the horizon.

Now I recently got a phone call from the Venengo Historical Society and Venango county, where Franklin is in Pennsylvania, Franklin Oil City and Titusville, where oil was found.

First commercial oil well of Drake was down there.

But they don't want to only be known by the oil heritage.

But they're really embracing this and they are trying to get the.

They were trying to find out where the football field was.

So they contacted me to see if I knew where it was.

And I said, I think I know where it is.

And I put in the book, I had a map in there and it's early on in the book and I thought it was in one end of town.

So they said, okay, if you could send us where your details on that because we want to definitively know where it is and have the proof.

And I said, sure.

So I went to work looking and going through my old research from a couple years ago when I did that and I couldn't find it.

I'm like, oh my gosh.

I.

I know I where I have it in a book.

And I said it's probably here or suggested it's probably here.

I was speculating a little bit.

So I went through some old manuals that I had and I found exactly where it is and it's actually the other end of town, but I know the exact street corner, the exact location, how large it was, who they bought the the field from and everything.

So that was pretty exciting to me.

And maybe there'll be some historical markers put on that site that people can go and enjoy here in the future.

And that'd be pretty cool too, to recognize the team.

That's what we have going up on football.

We appreciate you coming and watching us today.

Don't forget, in two days, Monday, March 3rd, we are going to be kicking off the NFL pre Super bowl championships.

The games, the teams in the seasons that were.

And the first one is a doozy.

And now we're really going to get in the meat of it.

And having guests galore coming on here big time experts on history of football.

Kicking off is Chicago legend Joe Ziemba, who wrote multiple books on Chicago Cardinals and Chicago Bears.

He history as well as other teams around Chicago is going to be phenomenal.

And I think you're really going to enjoy it.

You're going to learn a lot from a great storyteller and a great historian in Josie Emba.

And I think you're going to enjoy that.

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