The new rule gives teams a better chance to win in a more manly fashion (actually scoring a TD) as opposed to having the team that wins the coin toss prance to the 40 yard line so they can have some 97-pound waif kick the ball through the uprights for the "victory."
Under the new rules, when the coin toss winning team exercises that option, the other team will have the chance to get the ball back and play some real football.
Only 33% of the teams since 1994 that won the toss won on the first possession. It wasn’t a problem that needed to be fixed. The other team had the chance to stop them and failed. It’s not about the “arbitrary” coin toss, it’s about execution. And it’s not about “manly” it’s about execution. Make the stop. The Chicago Bears won 2 games in a row by INTs run in for TDs in OT, the idea that the coin toss winning team had some unfair advantage should have died that day. Then Brett Favre blew a 4th quarter chance and lost in OT and the whole stupid argument came back.
The new rule is beyond idiotic. Not only is it “fixing” a problem that never existed, it fixes it in a dumb way. I guarantee at some point (probably not soon because so few playoff games go into OT) the game will end on 3 FGs, the team winning the toss will go get one, then give one up, then go get another. Resulting in exactly the situation you’re complaining about. That’s the big reason why it’s a painfully stupid rule. All it does is delay the same sudden death OT we’ve always had, if the teams trade field goals we’re back to the “arbitrary” and “automatic” field goal.
I say let them play one more full quarter. Heck let them play ten of them if they are still tied.
I agree with you. But, I find it funny that the first "non-sudden death OT" ended in sudden death on the first play from scrimmage.
What...you don't like a game involving 300 pound warriors playing their guts out for 3+ hours being decided by a pip-squeak furriner saying "I'm gonna keeck a touchdown."
The system worked fine and it should have been left alone.
The system worked fine and it should have been left alone.