Scrapped, and replaced with high quality barbed wire, sure to keep the athletes on the ice and in stitches. The goal will be a one square foot space, defended by a rumble strip and three local inmates in flame-retardant costumes with blowtorches. Whereas scoring in the crease was illegal before, it is the only way for a goal to count in the new and improved league. Perhaps you get my point. The current professional leagues are doing just fine.
Football is football, baseball is baseball and so on.
The rules in place in these leagues were established for the good of the game, to protect their players and entertain the audience. Eliminating fair catches from football is not more exciting, it's more barbaric. So please, when the XFL debuts this week, look away. But his experiment is soiling our airwaves and taking time slots that could be devoted to more important and worthwhile entertainment. I, for one, am X-tremely disappointed.