Monday Morning Mock Draft: Let’s Make Things Right

Guten tag, drones.

Today, if you’re in the United States of Ontario, you’re celebrating Labor Day, which means you’re not working.  This has affected today’s topic, as I had planned to go with ‘TV Series That Ended Well’ although I probably would have come up with a better title than that.

Probably.

But the thing is, if we’re doing Labor Day right, most of us will be off doing something else, preferably outside and enjoying what is traditionally considered the last day of summer.  And that TV series ending topic deserves better than that.  it deserves a day when we’re all working, and can devote the necessary time and energy to making really good picks, while taking that time and energy from our soulless corporate employers.

If you’re self-employed I don’t know what to tell you.

So I’m going to put that one back on the shelf.  Look for it to sometime in March, 2027, assuming humanity as a collective hasn’t made the Earth an unlivable hellscape.  In which case we’ll do that draft from a volcano lair, but the first rule of the volcano liar is that you don’t talk about the volcano lair, so let’s just move it along, people.

This week’s substitute topic, then, is “Sports Rule You’d Change”

Is it a rule in a sport?  Do you not like it?  You got yourself a draft pick!

With the first pick I will change the Lesser Footy offside rule to allow a person who started from an offsides position to play the ball AFTER AN INITIAL SAVE HAS BEEN MADE.  Yes, this is inspired by Arsenal just losing a goal under those exact circumstances.  After seeing the replay, and having the coloUr guy explain it to me like I was 8, I agree it was the right call.

But I hate it.

Let’s, as Bonnie Blue might say, see a little more chaos around the box.  So, new rule, if a player is offsides but plays the ball from that position after the keeper has made a save on a shot from an onside player, that player shall not be considered to have been offsides.

The rest of you are on the clock.  Make some new rules, modify some old rules, enjoy the day off, don’t work to hard, or at all, but most of all

We’ll see you back here after Super Bowl LXI, or whatever.  Don’t forget to pick up after yourselves:  Hippo Thoughts moves in next week.