The NFL Is Finally Being Smart And Looking At Changing The Most Asinine Rule In All Of Sports - The Touchback Fumble Rule

Finally. I was waiting for this to finally get studied, changed, reviewed, whatever the hell you want to call step 1. There might not be something that people argue about more than whether or not the fumble out of the end zone should be a turnover. I think it's stupid. At the same time it's dumb to just give the offense the ball back at the 1 or whatever and act like nothing happened. It's why there should be a penalty. Ball where the fumble was plus a 5 or 10 yard penalty. 

I know the argument for keeping it is 'the offense gets all the calls anyways.' That's true. But that doesn't make this single rule asinine. We could, you know, not call DPI for farting in the same stadium as a wide receiver. We could, you know, not call roughing the passer for less action than grinding on a dance floor when Wait (The Whisper Song) came blasting through CDs in 2005. Seems like those would be good starting points. 

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It just never made sense to be a turnover in this scenario. No one recovers it, why does it go over to the defense? The logical argument is it doesn't happen any other time the ball bounces out of bounds, even if the end zone is no-mans land. But are you really telling me there's a difference between fumbling at the 1 inch line and at the pylon? No. There shouldn't be a turnover in that scenario. Again, 5-yard penalty or something along those lines is what would make sense. 

You know what? Get weird with it. Every fumble should be a live ball until someone recovers. It doesn't matter if it's in play or 20 yards out of bounds. Just give me a scrum until someone comes up with the ball. If it's on the sideline no one on the bench can touch it. But give me the mad dash and diving all around. Get some excitement back in the sport. Onside kicks used to give us that half second of fun but they are a thing of the past. Bring it back with no dead ball fumbles.