Giants owner John Mara thinks NFL moving away from kickoffs

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New York Giants owner John Mara thinks one day the NFL will replace kickoffs with something else, making the game safer.

Mara, a member of the NFL Competition Committee, thinks kickoffs are the most dangerous play in the game today, and says there have been talks of different ideas to replace it yet.

While he admits that taking away the kickoff probably wouldn't happen soon, he thinks it will one day.

The whole concern behind the kickoff play are the concussions and other injuries sustained during the play.

You can try to make the game more safe all you want, but until many players realize that the 'bounty' system the New Orleans players and coaches had in place is a bad thing, we will still see players getting hurt, then suing the NFL years later.

These same players want the NFL to take better care of the players that no longer play the game, but will not allow any of that money to come from their cut of the revenue. Maybe they need to look at the way they play the game, and start playing it the right way, within the rules, because I'm here to tell you, removing the kickoff play from the game would have little impact on the number of concussions sustained over the course of a full season.

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