A petition to fight flopping

SteveDobbs · Post #1 » by **SteveDobbs** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:54 pm

As a Bulls fan trying to find things to do with myself besides suicide, I decided to start a Change.org petition against flopping in the NBA.

All it took was 300,000 signatures on this site for Bank of America to drop their $5 debit card fee.

If you think, as I do, that flopping is ruining the game, go on there and sign the petition. It takes five seconds. In a couple hours with nothing other than posting on the general board here I have a handful of signatures.

http://www.change.org/petitions/nationa ... uspensions

Stern and the NBA obviously don't have to listen to Jeff Van Gundy, but maybe with enough people voicing their displeasure, they'd have to take the issue seriously and look at doing something, anything about it.

Mods feel free to lock if you don't want this on your team's board.

MaxRider · Post #2 » by **MaxRider** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:06 pm

it's hard to look at flopping at real game
i proposed few season ago that they should review each game after
fine each player for flopping and referee for missed call

SteveDobbs · Post #3 » by **SteveDobbs** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:16 pm

MaxRider wrote:it's hard to look at flopping at real game
i proposed few season ago that they should review each game after
fine each player for flopping and referee for missed call

That's what I want too. Way too hard to enforce during the game.

moofs · Post #4 » by **moofs** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:45 pm

I'd be for that, but good luck with it. The NBA doesn't really value their customers directly like BOA does.

SteveDobbs · Post #5 » by **SteveDobbs** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:47 pm

moofs wrote:I'd be for that, but good luck with it. The NBA doesn't really value their customers directly like BOA does.

I'd argue neither does. BoA made the change because the media picked it up. Not because they care about their customers.

Zubby · Post #6 » by **Zubby** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:27 am

Maybe giving out techs for any obvious flops during games, like they do in soccer(yellow cards).

Can't catch them all, but it would be a deterrent.

rocketsballin · Post #7 » by **rocketsballin** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:52 am

i remember maybe a year ago there was a petition against the lockout. max signatures was at 25k pshhhh yeah right like thats gonna do anything. we can hardly wipe the asses of the higher ups with that. what you gonna stop the lockout with 25 thousand signatures? what you should do is get off them drugs and get some help

SteveDobbs · Post #8 » by **SteveDobbs** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:19 am

rocketsballin wrote:i remember maybe a year ago there was a petition against the lockout. max signatures was at 25k pshhhh yeah right like thats gonna do anything. we can hardly wipe the asses of the higher ups with that. what you gonna stop the lockout with 25 thousand signatures? what you should do is get off them drugs and get some help

A labor dispute is way harder to do anything about. And these drugs are great, I can't stop taking them.

Post #9 » by **Mr. E** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:19 pm

I will support this simply because your avatar is the great Ron Swanson.

YoungMoney23 · Post #10 » by **YoungMoney23** » Thu May 3, 2012 2:16 am

Its hard to define what a flop is but when I see the **** Lebrick does... What happened to that respect the game rule? they should tech him for that