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Go back and read the proposal again. The first team to score a touchdown still wins. It's just to prevent the team winning the coin toss from kicking a field goal without the other team ever getting the ball.Originally Posted by dawg80
Under the new format, both teams would get the ball at least once unless the first team to get the ball scores a touchdown, Greg Aiello said.
I have to be honest, I dont understand the scoring a TD thing. That is ridiculous. If you wont both teams to get possessions, they should each get one regardless...
Baby steps.
A very illogical one at that.
Maybe. But at least it is in the right direction, right? More fair > less fair.
I don't know why you proponents of the current NFL overtime rules love field goal contests so much. It's too gimicky and not enough like real football for people like me.
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I read that. Guess I wasn't clear in my post, sorry. What I was trying to say is to REALLY make OT work....and to be fair....I was throwing out some suggestions.
FB is a different sport. Sudden-death OT works well in hockey, and soccer, and maybe a few others. Baseball's system is as fair as it gets, each team gets a chance. Hoops' system of playing a 5 min OT is also fair. Football is the problem.
The college system is okay, but I think they should start at the 50. And! to make it even more interesting, if the 1st team to go doesn't score, then they either punt, or go for it on 4th down. If they go for it then every yard outside of the 20 the other team can subtract from the 50, so it's in the best interest of the team stopped, to punt and get the ball to the 20 (into the endzone) or inside of it, whereby those yards are added to the next team's start.
Might seem complicated, but it ain't. Like this:
Boise is stuffed on its opening OT possession, 4th and 10 still at the 50. If they go for it, and make the 1st down, the drive is alive, of course. But, if they fail, say, an incomplete pass, then Tech's first OT possession starts on the Boazy 20, 50-20 = 30 yds, subtracted from the 50. What if Tech sacks the QB back to their 40, then that's 40 yds from the 20, which puts Tech on the 10 to start the drive. Needless to say, punting is a smart option. What if Boazy punts and the ball goes out at the 10. Then, since that's 10 yds inside the 20, Tech would start on its 40 (60 yds from paydirt). It's still like baseball innings, each team gets its chance, but now more strategy is involved.
Just throwing it out there for discussion....
Why not just play another quarter or a 7:50 minute(half of a regulation quarter)?
Because it is the simplest way to go about it and makes way to much SENSE!!!
Or, a shortened qtr, like they reduce the mins in hoops.
In the NFL, 10 mins, score at the end of the OT is final, unless it's still tied.
In CFB, 8 mins, maybe, or ten too, I guess.
Yep, the shortened quarter works for me. I was editing my previous post when you must have posted, but I agree. Way to easy a solution, but the powers that be have to make everything so damn complicated.
Or in the spirit of the Olympic hockey finals play overtime with fewer players, like 7on7.
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In my 2 cents of an opinion, keep it at sudden death...
If you want to win and you are receiving the ball, score. If you are on defense, keep them from scoring, get the ball back and set your team up to score.
I like it.
Too gimicky. Not enough like real football.
Arm Wrestle for it?
Oh wait. Also not like real football.
I say they just stop with the coin toss. Just flip the coin and whoever wins the coin toss wins the game. After all, if you deserved to win you would have done so in regulation, right?
I heard a rumor. I heard that they instituted a rule that in OT, the winning team is the first to score 6 points. Can anyone confirm?
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