To me (its MY blog, after all) the best part of the game is the bat-shit-crazy moves people do to get the ball and score, and the best games are the ones where the ball often changes hand and there are a lot of ballhandling. Of course this is poor coaching - a perfectly played game should consist of two pickups, two touchdowns and perhaps some 20 2D blocks.

The fundamental mistake in the rules I think is this: The offense take the first turn after a touchdown. Too often this leads to a rather boring game, early bad dice and 6-7 turns of next to hopeless attempts of retrieving the ball from an opposing team that not only outnumbers you, but has a much better position. Each low-chance attempt usually puts you in worse position, and makes the outnumbering worse. I'm thinking that sometimes the best move is to just keep hitting "End Turn" and hope for better luck in the next half - at least a shot at a draw. But by Nuffle, that'd be boring. Of course the opposing coach stalls, does pretty much nothing, keeps his position and waits for the last turn to score. After all, scoring costs him pretty much everything - position, possession of the ball, initiative.

What if the defense took first turn? Scoring would lose you the possession of the ball, but you'd get the initiative. The defense still should set up first, so some of the carnage would be lost - most coaches wouldn't put their LoS people next to the obvious killers of course. Slower teams would have to spread out to cover their half from the defense trying to sack the landing ball. Scoring when recieving would no longer be quite so easy (as it usually is when you're not getting that 1, 1 or [SKULL][SKULL], [SKULL][SKULL] kick in your teeth), and I think there would be a lot more weird, exciting and fun things happening on the pitch.

Of course it would take a whole lot of rebalancing of teams and skills and whatnot. But I think making scoring any Touchdown but the winning one a Bad Thing(tm) was a mistake.