Los Angeles Raiders tight end Todd Christensen, whose career is in jeopardy, wouldn`t mind applying for the commissioner`s job should he be unemployed in September. His first act?
”I`d hire full-time officials,” he says. And where would he find the money to pay for this added expense? He`d eliminate the commissioner`s Super Bowl party. ”We don`t need this garish, lavish event,” he said.
Christensen has other changes in mind, too.
He`d reduce the size of coaching staffs. ”We`d have the same rules as tennis,” he said. ”No more hand signals, no guard messengers. Quarterbacks would have to call their own plays.”
Christensen would also return the goal posts to the goal line to increase scoring and forbid end-zone touchbacks as the Canadian Football League does.
And a drug policy: ”We`d either have capital punishment (banishment) for drug offenders or let anything go,” he said. ”No more halfways; we`re just fooling with ourselves now. We ban guys for drinking and have others promoting Miller Lite.”
