NFL Overtime Ideas for Competition Committee

Then they should have made a tackle.

It's right about 30 percent.

Since regular-season OT was created in 1974, the team that wins the OT coin toss has won the game roughly 53 percent of the time. Since 2000, I believe it has been close to 60 percent.

I like the OT as it is. Everything else being suggested seems too tricked-up, like you're trying to re-invent the game for this specific circumstance -- which, in effect, you are.

The way it's done now is football, just like the rest of the game except first score wins. The real best way would be to play an extra quarter, but as has been pointed out, that would take too long and create more ties than sudden death. So this is as close as we're going to get.

 

OK, the game ends instantly when a tem goes up by 4, otherwise you play through the period when the win goes to whoever is ahead.

 

Take out the gimmicky four-point bullshit, leave the rest.

 

What's the rest?

 

Play through period when the win goes to whoever is ahead.

 

Polian is on the committee and has made it plain that he wouldn't change a thing.

It might be good fodder for Around the Horn, but the overtime rules don't need fixing.

 

And what of the, granted extremely unlikely, scenario in which a team manages to keep the ball for all 15 minutes and scores with no time left?

What if the defensive team intercepts on the first possession, but fumbles it away during the runback? Does that count as its possession?

 

Here's one thing they could have done: Tackle the guy returning the kickoff. That's part of football, not allowing a kickoff to be returned for a touchdown. Some teams go an entire season without giving one up.

 

If it is a FG, that would be a tie. And yes.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing them play a full 15-minute quarter. so what if one team winds up winning by 21 or something?

 

I'm not holding back until I get a shark tank and a stripper pole on the 50-yard line!

 

That was the whole selling point of the XFL — no coddling players, no babying returners with stupid fair-catch rules, and such.

So much for that.