Gentlemen,
Football is about shut up and do your job. Team work. This ridiculous proposal for new overtime rules is pathetic. Sad. Disgusting. I realise that your lust for money means you want to emphasise offence and that there is a chorus of professional whiners who complain that both offenses should have an opportunity to score in overtime but I have to ask how can you pretend that this would be for the good of the game? Some silly warping of the the idea of fairness? What's next -does every player have to touch the ball before you can score? Maybe the original coin toss should be replaced with that comical XFL scramble?
I've read the cries, oh the Colts lost in overtime because the almighty Peyton Manning didn't get to touch the ball in Overtime. The greatest player yadda yadda yadda. All this says is that we need to stop judging quarterbacks on the number of Superbowl rings they have. I guess Peyton should have scored more in regulation.
The current overtime system can't be that bad or we wouldn't see so many gutless coaches playing for overtime at the end of close games. When coaches start playing to win rather than go to overtime then you can start talking about the system being broken.
And please don't follow the dark path of the NHL in making overtime a sad caricature of a once great game.
In the modern game of platoon football each platoon has to do it's job for the team to be great.
Why not spend your time fixing something that's a problem - like mandating the anti-concussion helmets for starters.
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