San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York explained why he was one of the owners who voted against the new XFL-style kickoff rule that will come to the NFL this season.
NFL team owners voted to make a massive overhaul of the kickoff rules on Tuesday, with 29 of them favoring the change and three others voting against the proposal. San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York was among the three who voted against the new kickoff rules, which takes a page out of the rebooted XFL’s rules. He explained why he voted against it to reporters after the change was passed.
think the concern is that it's such a drastic change to a play,' he said, via Sports Illustrated. 'From a health and safety standpoint, we've tried to address the play. It was the most, highest rated injury play that existed, so they're going from that to trying to reintroduce the play into the game and make it more of a real play as opposed to a ceremonial play. I'm 100% for that.
There was a little fear of the unknown,' NFL Competition Committee Chairman Rich McKay said. 'I think the optics are definitely the most drastic we’ve seen. The thing that gives us all the comfort is we have the tape, we've seen it. We can show you the plays and you can see how this can play out.' The Associated Press contributed to this report. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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