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Old 01-08-2009, 06:42 PM   #1
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Re: How would you change the overtime rules?

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Originally Posted by djnemo65 View Post
In a system in which each team is guaranteed one possession you would see that flip, as teams would see a much greater advantage to going second. By electing to kick you would have the massive advantage of knowing whether you need a fieldgoal or TD to win, something that completely changes offensive strategy, and something which the first offense would not know. Big advantage.
I still think most teams would choose to receive though because if one possession for each team can't decide it, it becomes sudden death, but now they have the ball.

I tend to like this idea simply because it takes a lot of the meaning out of the coin toss, which is the only real problem. Because let's face it: the overtime rules are very, very fair before the coin toss occurs. It's just that the toss decides a fair amount of games, a few more than we would like in overtime. It's not an omnipresent issue obviously, but if we can de-emphasize the coin toss in OT, I'm all for a change.
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