NFL

NFL has a good intention of reducing injuries, but horrible execution

1. the fear CTE related lawsuits, thus the "player protection" rules.

2. With the new interest due to betting and fantasy football, and the shortage of reasonable QBs, the NFL will go way over board to protect the QBs. An incidental graze of a helmet with a hand is a PF. Sacking a QB risks a PF.

They hand out fines for questionable penalties, where even if you call it, it's not like the player deliberately tried to break a rule.

here's been so many situations where I see a defender flagged for unnecessary roughness and my only thought during the replay is "well, if he can't do that, then how is he supposed to stop the offensive player from getting more yards?"

Exactly.

I preferred games form 10 years ago to those today. Too many ticky tack penalties, too much inflated scoring.

The game was more interesting when there was more of a run-pass balance. Now passing dominates. If you don't have a top 10 passer you are at a huge disadvantage. This make steh game less interesting as a whole. Its great if you are one of those 10-12 teams, but for the other 20 team sit's less enjoyable than when it was more balanced.