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NFL Overtime Ideas for Competition Committee

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by exmediahack, Jan 27, 2009.

  1. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    I really like the idea of the team taking the opening kickoff having incentive to be aggressive and go for the touchdown.
     
  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Right. My biggest issue with the NFL's overtime is that there is such a significant advantage to the team that gets the ball first. Win the toss, win the game... It shouldn't be like that.

    I don't think anything is going to change, at least not in the regular season. The NFL is the most TV friendly game out there and they don't want to do anything that might fuck with that, not for the handful of times in a season that overtime is required.
     
  3. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    Then you would get teams, backed up in their own end zones, taking safeties and hoping for better position on the free kick than punting the ball to the 40, and risking a quick touchdown.
     
  4. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    The problem I've always had with the current NFL overtime is that it could be called "Golden Field Goal."
     
  5. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Yep.
     
  6. Rusty Shackleford

    Rusty Shackleford Active Member

    I think overtime should end like soccer -- with a field goal kicking contest, ie a shootout. Two ways to do this. 1) Both kickers get to kick from extra point range to start, then move back to kicking from the 15 , 20, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 adding five yards to each kick until one of them misses what the other makes. To make it fair, there's defense, so there's a chance to block, and they both kick in the same direction.

    2) Play it horse style. Coin toss. Winner can either choose yard-line or hash mark (loses chooses the other) and kicks first and you always kick with wind at your back. If he makes his kick, coin toss loser has to do same. If he misses, coin toss loser picks his own spot and tries until one of them makes what the other misses.

    Now if that's not getting to the essense of 'foot' ball, I don't know what is!
     
  7. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    OK, if that works, fine - you're giving the other team the ball with the chance to win with a FG rather than a TD, doesn't seem smart to me. But that's part of what I think would be great about it, the new strategy decisions.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Hell, if you just take the FG off the table in overtime, it could work. First team to score a TD wins.

    The problem is, you get two offensively challenged teams, that could take too long.

    If the NFL cared about it being "fair" they would do what they do in college. Since that will never happen in a million years, they'll likely just stick with the way they're doing it now.
     
  9. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    There's your answer. No kickers at all in OT.

    Both teams get a possession but – as with college OT after the second go-round – teams have to go for 2.
     
  10. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Give that man a cigar.
     
  11. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Nah, if you allow a TD in OT, screw you.
     
  12. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Eh, screw you! :)
     
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