NFL Overtime Rules Changed

NFL owners voted 28-4 this week to apply proposed changes to overtime rules in the playoffs. Starting next season, if the coin-toss winning team kicks a field goal, the other team will get the ball. If the game is still tied after that possession, the game will continue under sudden-death rules. According to AP, only Buffalo, Cincinnati, Baltimore and, oddly, Minnesota were against the change. Minnesota lost the NFL championship game to New Orleans in overtime this past season after New Orleans won the coin toss and won with a field goal.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on March 24, 2010 8:45 AM

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jaycjay

" oddly,"

Maybe recognizing that their game was the only time a playoff game had been decided that way in the past ten years, the realized that the odds of it happening to them again were pretty small. Or perhaps they realized that the probability of losing a one-possession overtime game are exactly the same as those of winning one.

Minnesota's ownership apparently voted logic over emotion. Oddly.

spiritross

This is such bs - Pete Rozelle is rolling in his grave for just gimmicky crap - it might play in college but this is the NFL.

They should have done just simple stupid - get rid of sudden death and play an entire quarter - if you're still tied then play another one.