I don't think its right... the first team wins.. I think they should both have a chance to score.
Do you think they will ever change that in NFL?
2006-10-27 08:51:00 · 22 answers · asked by Keith Perry 6 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
I agree, however i don't think that it should mirror the college overtime. I think that you play an extra quarter and the team on top at the end wins. i don't think that they will change the current rule anytime soon
2006-10-27 08:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by The Seeker 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think that the OT rules will change soon, but this is how I would have the OT rules for both the NFL and for college.
1) Set clock to 15 minutes. Each team gets at least 1 possession.
2) A possession is called such if a team at least makes an attempt to return the ball on a kickoff or return. The muff rule in the NFL would make it that the fumbling team would have a second shot at a possession. However, if the team does make an honest attempt to return the ball, that's their possession.
3) Clock would run during each initial possession, and any subsequent possession as needed. In the odd event that the 15 minute clock expires before the completion of the manditory two possessions, the clock will reset to 15:00 for statistical purposes (only in regular season games).
In a regular season game, the game ends at the end of the second manditory possession in the event that the OT goes beyond 15 minutes, or if either team has a lead at any point after the manditory two possessions.
If the clock expires anytime after the two manditory possessions in OT, then the game is a tie.
In the NFL Playoffs (or college bowl game or college conference championship game), after the two manditory possessions, game is continued until sudden death like the NFL Playoff overtime rules.
2006-10-27 09:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by joey_blue_eyez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100% YES.
Why should the fortune of a coin toss result determine the outcome of a game? If anything, it'll give people an incentive to stay and give them their money;s worth.
From a business perspective, isnt that what the owners really wants?? Happy customers?
Theres nothing worse then the sudden death rule.
For me, as a die hard Giants fan of 30 years (im only 34, but still!) no memory makes me cringe more than Flipper Ansderson of the Rams (im thinking late 80s) catching the game winning TD in overtime. He caught it, ran into the endzone, put his arms up and just kept running into the tunnel to the locker rooms in the Meadowlands.
Is that right? Nope. The worst football experience ever? YES!
Both teams should have a go at it. Great question!
2006-10-27 10:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by JusticeManEsq 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel like both teams should have a chance, but the A**HOLES that run the league will never change it, for it would screw with their precious "tradition". Then again, I thought I'd have a heart attack when I heard them introduce the 2 PT. conversion into the league, so who knows? Maybe they'll wake up before it's too late. I think the NFL overtime should be just like college, except instead of starting on the opponent's 25 yard line, they should start from midfield (50 yd. line) and play it like that with both teams getting at least one shot each and make them go for 2 auto matically after the second OT. I like the college OT, so why not pattern the NFL'S OT after it with only a bit higher degree of difficulty?
2006-10-27 09:24:34 · answer #4 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) If the first team score a TD.. Game Over!
2) If they score a FG, give the other team a chance to score a TD to win. FG would not be allowed.
Any stats on the number of OT games decided by FG vs. TD?
Still gives an advantage to the team winning a coin toss, but allows the other team a chance.
2006-10-27 09:00:38 · answer #5 · answered by G-Man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily but I think that an NFL game should never end in a score so if they had to adopt the college version of OT I would be alright with that.
2006-10-27 09:49:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. Team A wins coin toss, receives kick, moves down field, kicks field goal. Team B should have chance to receive kickoff, either score a FG to tie or TD to win. If they're still tied after 15 minutes of OT, it's a tie, unless it's postseason.
2006-10-27 10:41:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not likely to change anytime soon.
I think they should play a full quarter so all phases of the game come into play. if your d sucks and you lose the toss then you're probably going to lose.
or yes, allow both teams a chance to score. if the first team scores the other should get a shot.....and not from the 20 yard line either!!!!!
2006-10-27 08:54:13 · answer #8 · answered by bob a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100% absolutely NOT! A football team consists of an offense and a defense and if the defense is called upon in OT then it has to come through for its team to win.
2006-10-27 09:07:43 · answer #9 · answered by Brandon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll watch as much of the baseball as possible, then switch to the Broncos during commercials. Also watch as much of the football as the baseball game will allow before or after. I'm just too hooked on the Twins to give up watching them during the stretch run of a pennant chase.
2016-03-28 09:26:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NFL should do overtime AND replays exactly like college // college has those two things right over the NFL
2006-10-27 10:50:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋