Originally posted by thl408:
Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by thl408:
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Originally posted by thl408:
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Anyone else hate the new overtime rule. It makes it possible for the game to be won by the coin toss winner if they score a TD. The other team doesn't even get the ball. They should at least have the opportunity to respond with a TD.
It's better than it used to be where a team can win the coin toss, get the ball, and kick a field goal to end it.
Under the old rule if the coin toss winner kicked a FG the other team got the ball but had to score a TD, they couldn't kick a FG and tie it up again. That was a lot more fair. Not sure why they changed it but I guess it had something to do with safety like every other rule change.
Really? I thought they changed it so that teams couldn't win the toss, get the ball, kick a FG and end the game, without the other team ever getting the ball.
I think there were two changes in recent years. You're talking about the rule that was in place for many years where first score in OT wins which is what got a lot of people pissed off.
I'm ok with the current rule but I probably wouldn't be if our defense was trash :D
Shame our replacement kicker couldn't make the game winner.
I know how it used to be (the bolded), can you tell me what was the change to the rules before how it is now? This second rule change that I don't know about.
The best NFL OT game ever was the 1981 classic
playoff game between the San Diego Chargers and the Miami Dolphins. It was in Miami, hot and humid, and by overtime players on both sides were dropping like flies. It went to double OT with each side having a chance for the winning FG, only to miss, before the Chargers finally hit one and limped away with the W. Kellen Winslow was All-Universe.
The winner of that game, the Chargers, a high flying offense, got to go play in -63 wind chill in Cincinnati, one week after playing in sweltering Miami! The Bengals won and went on to face us in the Super Bowl.
[ Edited by RTFirefly on Nov 12, 2019 at 10:19 AM ]