I don't want special teams limited for player safety. I want them removed because it's shitty football. 'Look guys, here's a bunch of guys who can barely stay in the league'. Look how good they are.
Kickers are pussies. ST's players usually suck at the game. FFS, when a game is heavily altered by special teams, it feels awful. In 2009 Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh in Pitt in a game where the score was like 12-10 or something like that. It was a brutal game. The type of game that makes you want to bathe in the blood of your enemies, burn their territory to the ground, salt the earth. It was glorious. Yet one of the biggest plays in the game was when we had a long return, I don't recall if it was a punt or a kickoff.
It wasn't our best players on that huge play making the difference; just a bunch of backups and the weaker rotational guys. I stand by my intern doing the closing arguments analogy.