Thats going to be very odd to see. Not sure if I like it or hate it.
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Arena football....
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Definitely looks interesting. Not sure how it will impact returns overall compared to what they had before.
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Won't that completely eliminate onside kick opportunities?
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The onside kick is basically being killed.

As if it wasn't hard enough to achieve, now you can only use it in the 4th quarter when losing, and you have to announce that you're doing it.

It's just a dead play now.
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So this eliminated like 0.3% of all onside kicks? I don't understand why people act like surprise onside kicks happen so often.

And didn't they also bring back being able to overload one side of the field on onside kicks with this rule?
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much improvement IMO especially since the overwhelming % of kickoffs were touch backs.
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Having returners who can hold onto the ball just became even more valuable.
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Lol,
An onside kick can occur, under the new rule, only during the fourth quarter and only by the trailing team. That team must declare its intention, and the alignment will revert to the traditional kickoff setup."

These rules man.
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Entirely eliminates that element of surprise from the game. :-)
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I'll take whole games filled with exciting kickoffs over the surprise onside that happen like once or twice a season.
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NFL Players will soon be carrying rule books in their pockets
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The rule book is already like 100 pages long. If you asked players to take a test on the intricacies of the rules, I'd bet the average score would be like a 70%. (See the 49ers lack of knowledge of the playoff OT rules in the Super Bowl.)
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