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NFL reduces overtime period from 15 minutes to 10, but why?
Yahoo ^ | 05/23/2017 | Eric Edholm

Posted on 05/23/2017 11:34:41 AM PDT by Phlap

CHICAGO — Beware standings tiebreaker person … an 8-5-3 division champion could be coming to the NFL soon.

The league reportedly has passed a rule at the owners meeting on Tuesday that will shorten the length of regular-season overtime games from 15 minutes to 10. There were two ties in the NFL last season, as many as there had been in the prior three seasons combined.

But this feels like a solution looking for a problem to us. How is this going to help … with anything? The NFL is expected to officially announce the changes later on Tuesday.

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KEYWORDS: chitchat; football; nfl; sports
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I think they should play until there is a winner. JMHO.
1 posted on 05/23/2017 11:34:41 AM PDT by Phlap
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Why should a win in overtime be valued the same as a win in regulation?

I say, get rid of OT except for playoffs. Can’t decide a game in regulation? Tough noogies, then neither team deserves to win.


2 posted on 05/23/2017 11:36:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Phlap

Why have OT at all? Except as playoffs and Championships and Superbowls...............


3 posted on 05/23/2017 11:39:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Phlap

Between Pink-Tober and the other girly madness, the NFL is becoming sissified down to its last player. If these guys don’t know the dangers of this sport, they shouldn’t play. And soccer has many more injuries than the NFL will ever have. Don’t see anyone sissifying soccer (as if it’s not already sissified)


4 posted on 05/23/2017 11:39:38 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: dfwgator

Why not decide the winner with a series of penalty goal kicks? Oh, that’s right. They already do in REAL football.


5 posted on 05/23/2017 11:40:08 AM PDT by beelzepug (Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
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To: Phlap

Whenever I see a story like this I assume it has everything to do with fitting games into TV schedules.


6 posted on 05/23/2017 11:40:33 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child

Affiliates are giving the networks heck? That was my first thought.


7 posted on 05/23/2017 11:42:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: beelzepug
Real football? Is that the one with the guys in short, laying on the ground crying?

*watched no NFL last season due to Kraptastic

8 posted on 05/23/2017 11:45:14 AM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: dfwgator

If both teams can’t score in 10 minutes of play time, end it, let people out of their misery.

I barely watch now as it’s gotten too boring, but anything to shorten what is mostly commercials, politics, celebs and referees talking about penalties and trying to figure out what happened on the last play is fine by me.


9 posted on 05/23/2017 11:47:38 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: beelzepug

What would be even better:

One quarterback, 1 center, 4 wide receivers vs 1 nose tackle, 1 linebacker and 4 defensive backs

Each team lines up at the 10 yard line and gets one play to get it in the end zone.

Keep going until someone scores.


10 posted on 05/23/2017 11:49:28 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Phlap

It should be decided by the number of millionaires taking a knee.


11 posted on 05/23/2017 11:50:10 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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I say, get rid of OT except for playoffs. Can’t decide a game in regulation? Tough noogies, then neither team deserves to win.

Yes. +1.
12 posted on 05/23/2017 11:50:21 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Phlap

NFL could handle overtime the same way the NCAA does.


13 posted on 05/23/2017 11:50:37 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Phlap

My suggestion: If the team that has the ball first in overtime doesn’t score, award the other team one point. Game over.


14 posted on 05/23/2017 11:52:17 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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I have the same problem with the NCAA approach. A win in OT still counts as much as a regulation win. They should at least have the number of OT wins as part of their record, so that a team who is unbeaten, but won a game in OT, won’t have a “perfect” record.


15 posted on 05/23/2017 11:52:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jimtorr

Agreed, the college overtime rule is much more equitable. In the NFL, the winner of the coin toss usually wins the overtime, it seems.


16 posted on 05/23/2017 11:54:36 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: Phlap; All

NO TIES!!!

This is American Football...Not soccer, NO F’n ties!!! It feels the same, but you know it still isn’t right, it’s un-American!!!

“Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. The very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.” General George S. Patton, 1944

No TIES!!!


17 posted on 05/23/2017 11:56:36 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: The people have spoken
In the NFL, the winner of the coin toss usually wins the overtime, it seems.

Not true. It's pretty much 50-50. The reason is that if the team that gets the opening KO doesn't get a first down, odds are the other team will get the ball in good field position, and only would need a FG to win.

18 posted on 05/23/2017 11:56:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mykroar
You might get a kick out of this clip.

[WARNING: Absolutely not safe for work or children. This clip is littered with expletives but is funny as all get-out.]

Hockey vs. Soccer -- LMAO

19 posted on 05/23/2017 11:56:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: beelzepug
Why not decide the winner with a series of penalty goal kicks? Oh, that’s right. They already do in REAL football.

Which "real" football do you mean? Wikipedia has:

Association football/soccer
Australian rules football
Gaelic football
American football
Canadian football
Rugby football



20 posted on 05/23/2017 11:57:48 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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