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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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.
Why have OT at all? Except as playoffs and Championships and Superbowls...............
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)
Why not decide the winner with a series of penalty goal kicks? Oh, that’s right. They already do in REAL football.
Whenever I see a story like this I assume it has everything to do with fitting games into TV schedules.
Affiliates are giving the networks heck? That was my first thought.
*watched no NFL last season due to Kraptastic
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.
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.
It should be decided by the number of millionaires taking a knee.
NFL could handle overtime the same way the NCAA does.
My suggestion: If the team that has the ball first in overtime doesn’t score, award the other team one point. Game over.
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.
Agreed, the college overtime rule is much more equitable. In the NFL, the winner of the coin toss usually wins the overtime, it seems.
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!!!
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.
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