[Olderthandirt]

If you allowed a team to continually foul without having to sit out the games would last 3 to 4 hours. Football does have a penalty for "fouls" in yardage...you can't shoot a free-throw in a football game but you move the ball closer to the goal line and closer to scoring.

Not counting fouls would never work...especially if the penalty of two shots and the ball only counts after five fouls. That gives a coach (in theory) 25 fouls before the extra penalty counts. I kind of understand what your point is, but I disagree that it's workable.