Over the past 2-3 weeks, I’ve been watching something called the A7FL. It’s a 7-man football league with modified rules but their most obvious difference is that nobody wears helmets or hard shoulder pads. The league claims this will cause fewer concussions or cases of CTE because their players are taught to tackle by making initial hits with the torso and then wrapping up the ballcarrier or receiver…they say players easily accept that because who wants to bang their unprotected head?
The settings and level of play is somewhere between semipro and the NFL Street video games, but the product itself is interesting to watch and the A7FL is expanding rapidly. It MAY catch fire because people protesting football’s existense usually point to the concussions and brain trauma, two things that don’t appear to happen in A7FL games.
Who know? It’s definitely wide-open football and entertaining in its own way (you can watch them on YouTube), although the play-by-play announcers really need to dial it back a bit.
jagedlo over 2 years ago
If Hobblegoblin is winning all the time, why not just find a way to exclude him from the league?
Guilty Bystander over 2 years ago
Over the past 2-3 weeks, I’ve been watching something called the A7FL. It’s a 7-man football league with modified rules but their most obvious difference is that nobody wears helmets or hard shoulder pads. The league claims this will cause fewer concussions or cases of CTE because their players are taught to tackle by making initial hits with the torso and then wrapping up the ballcarrier or receiver…they say players easily accept that because who wants to bang their unprotected head?
The settings and level of play is somewhere between semipro and the NFL Street video games, but the product itself is interesting to watch and the A7FL is expanding rapidly. It MAY catch fire because people protesting football’s existense usually point to the concussions and brain trauma, two things that don’t appear to happen in A7FL games.
Who know? It’s definitely wide-open football and entertaining in its own way (you can watch them on YouTube), although the play-by-play announcers really need to dial it back a bit.
Ellis97 over 2 years ago
That’s a goblin?
jerumulligan1 over 2 years ago
That’s not a bad idea, actually. Most of my fantasy teams have gotten derailed early by injuries.
buckman-j over 2 years ago
Sounds like rugby
Polsixe over 2 years ago
Baltimore Ravens had those two guys go down with ACL tears within minutes. Hobblegoblin must have been in town that day