Rules We Never Live By

Well it's football season again. I really do like football and have season tickets to UCF. I feel I have a pretty good understanding of the game and the rules. We even have a bunch of guys running around enforcing these rules. Guys we can clearly identify by their uniform, and they even have a card issued by the league that says they met all the qualifications to enforce the rules. Now in these modern times we have instant replay to ensure the ruling is accurate. As I watched another game, I wondered, who enforces our rules, the rules of Christians? It seems we have a rule book, but just like in football there are many leagues. Canada has a league, but when we host the NFL Superbowl, the winner is called the "world champion", even though it's just teams from the U.S. And within each league there are different teams. The teams wear different uniforms and from watching college football, I can tell you they are funded differently as well.  When the University of Texas came to UCF, they had state-of-the-art wireless radios in the helmets, a fancy cooling system that plugged into the pads of the players, and really nice looking benches for their players to sit. Last week when the University of South Dakota came, they had a couple students handing cups of water to players on folding chairs as the coaches yelled from the sidelines. I think the Catholic church is a lot like Texas, and the Anglican Mission is like South Dakota, but we want to be like Texas, we just don't have the money.
So who enforces our rule book? The Anglican church has additional rules outside the Bible, particular to the Anglican church. These 39 articles are helpful to explain the rules we already have. I am curious about some of the rules. What about women wearing hats in church? Who said it was okay not to? Don't get mad at me for asking, it's in the Bible. I am just wondering who decided that particular rule doesn't count.
Its no different than that stupid rule in football...you know the one. If the quarterback is about to get tackled and he throws the ball away to avoid losing yards, he is subject to the penalty of "Intentional grounding". Just the name of the penalty says it all right? The intention of putting the football to the ground to avoid a less favorable outcome. However, if the quarterback is running out of time he can immediately throw the ball intentionally to the ground without a penalty because some clever person has called this "spiking the ball". Way different than intentional grounding. And spiking the ball has no penalty.
I have heard the rules or laws of the Bible explained in all sorts of clever ways I am not educated enough in to argue, but have my doubts. I keep looking for the refs to come in and throw the flag. It seems now-a-days it is too easy to call yourself a referee in Christianity. There are too many under-funded leagues with new rules and crazy players who wanted to play a certain way... so they made their own team.  Youtube has become life's instant replay but it seems all we can do is watch them spike our ball and then we say to our friends... "look at that."  My new closer....good thing God has grace for the human race.