NFL Divisional Weekend thread

[HanSenSE]

A double overtime game in the NFL playoffs is awesome, just because it's so rare and the rules are kind of quirky that no one knows quite how it works.
Does everything reset again?
Is there a two minute warning?
Do we just flip ends like nothing happened?
Let's find out!

When it almost happened in the Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl a couple years ago people were losing their mind that the Chiefs were taking their time at the end of overtime, clueless that they'd just go to the other end if they didn't get the snap off before time ran out.

Me included, until @MileHigh explained it.

Recall the Raiders and Baltimore Colts had a double OT game in 1977, the "Ghost to the Post" game. And there was a three-OT game in the original USFL as well.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Yeah, there's a couple dozen variations on it but the play-action bootleg is almost impossible to stop down there if the TE is able to sell his block and then get a clean release.

Bears had the QB to run the play well, too.

 

[Batman]

Me included, until @MileHigh explained it.

Recall the Raiders and Baltimore Colts had a double OT game in 1977, the "Ghost to the Post" game. And there was a three-OT game in the original USFL as well.

One thing I've always wondered, because it's never happened in the NFL, is what does happen if they make it through two scoreless overtime quarters? Do they treat it like another halftime and kick off to start the third OT? Or just keep going like from OT1 to OT2?1
And is there another "halftime" break, like 10 minutes between the periods?

 

[outofplace]

Bears did the right thing going to OT. They got the ball what 3 times in OT?

What a throw by Williams, best desperate throw I can remember.

They only had it once, but they drove from their 16 to the Rams' 48 before the interception. They had a great opportunity to win it with that drive, so no, going for one in regulation is not why they lost.

 

[BTExpress]

One thing I've always wondered, because it's never happened in the NFL, is what does happen if they make it through two scoreless overtime quarters? Do they treat it like another halftime and kick off to start the third OT? Or just keep going like from OT1 to OT2?1
And is there another "halftime" break, like 10 minutes between the periods?

Two-minute break. But treated like a new "half" (as would be a 5th OT). No coin flip. Loser of first OT coin flip gets choice of ball or end of field for 3rd OT.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Takes a good corner to defend that play. Depends on the down and distance. Are you trying to prevent a first down or a touchdown?

I'd defense it by sagging around the goal line until the QB crosses the LOS, which takes the pass out of the picture.

 

[da man]

Me included, until @MileHigh explained it.

Recall the Raiders and Baltimore Colts had a double OT game in 1977, the "Ghost to the Post" game. And there was a three-OT game in the original USFL as well.

It's just like starting a new game. Quarter ends after 15 minutes and you change ends. In fact, I think the referee actually tells the captains at the coin toss that it's a new game -- that's why they get three timeouts.

 

[da man]

One thing I've always wondered, because it's never happened in the NFL, is what does happen if they make it through two scoreless overtime quarters? Do they treat it like another halftime and kick off to start the third OT? Or just keep going like from OT1 to OT2?1
And is there another "halftime" break, like 10 minutes between the periods?

Yes, it's like the second half and there is a kickoff. The team that lost the first coin toss gets the choice of receiving, kicking or defending a goal (unless the first coin toss winner deferred). Each team gets three timeouts. The only difference is there is no halftime break.

 

[da man]

Two-minute break. But treated like a new "half" (as would be a 5th OT). No coin flip. Loser of first OT coin flip gets choice of ball or end of field for 3rd OT.

Oops. Posted before I saw this.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Your NFL champion (with six ties) Chicago Bears. So what if they didn't score a point until their fifth game.

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It was also the year of the first postseason game (because Chicago and Portsmouth were tied with 6-1 records, and ties were thrown out). It was played indoors at Chicago Stadium to maximize attendance and revenue. . . because it was expected to be (gasp!) cold in December at Wrigley Field.

So much for the "games in the snow are how it's meant to be!" nonsense.

I always love reading about that postseason game. Apparently, the circus had just left Chicago Stadium, and the floor was covered with, well, you know.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I always love reading about that postseason game. Apparently, the circus had just left Chicago Stadium, and the floor was covered with, well, you know.

Peanuts?

 

[BTExpress]

Those two teams played for the championship on 100 yards of ****-smelling foulness I can't even imagine. Or maybe I just don't want to.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Peanuts?

After traveling through the elephants, yes.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Those two teams played for the championship on 100 yards of ****-smelling foulness I can't even imagine. Or maybe I just don't want to.

Actually, it was only 80 yards, including end zones, as there wasn’t enough room for a full-length field.

Same old ****. Different day.

 

[da man]

Your NFL champion (with six ties) Chicago Bears. So what if they didn't score a point until their fifth game.

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They still led the league in scoring.

 

[da man]

Actually, it was only 80 yards, including end zones, as there wasn’t enough room for a full-length field.

Same old ****. Different day.

Every time a team got past midfield they moved the ball back 20 yards to make up for the shortened field.

 

[Della9250]

 

[Batman]

Every time a team got past midfield they moved the ball back 20 yards to make up for the shortened field.

And thus was born a tradition that the Bears would continue for the next 90 years.