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[QUOTE="BlazeOrange, post: 2037615, member: 683"]
Other sports are exposed to different styles of play in international competition or by having a worldwide source of players.

Hockey is probably the best example, adopting European elements after the North Americans were dominated by the Russians, and then adding droves of European players.  Although the US first responded to the rest of the world catching up in basketball by sending its best players to the Olympics, that was also around the time that significantly more foreign players joined the NBA (I don't watch enough pro hoops to know if that had much impact).  Baseball has an international makeup and teams employ a variety of strategies depending on their composition, league, and locational quirks (ballpark design, typical weather, etc.).

By comparison, football is a rather isolated sport where changes to CW typically enjoyed short-term success at best.  Either because coaches found strategic counters or due to the fact that NFL careers are short and the combination of talent was more critical than the system.  On a micro basis, coaches receive more blame for risky calls that don't work than credit when it does (that goes to the players), so they become increasingly risk-averse.
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