Many complains have developed over the subject of the NFL's overtime method. Unlike college, the NFL's overtime basically whoever scores first wins. Clearly, this overtime is unfair to the team that doesn't win the coin toss.
The Pittsburgh Steelers wanted only one more thing since their national championship last year, to avenge their loss from the Tennessee Titans. Everyone knew this game would be a close one especially considering it was the season opener. Tennessee's defense did excellent stopping Ben Roethlisberger until he found out the short passing game was their weakness. However, both teams had there chances to win; Tennessee missed two field goals and Pittsburgh fumbled at the five yard line. Predictably, the game went into overtime. Titans are the visitors they get to call the toss. They guess wrong Pittsburgh gets the ball. The ball is taken down just far enough to get in field goal range. Pittsburgh kicks a field goal game over. How is this fair? The NFL needs to adjust their overtime to more like college. There should be at least one chance per team to score.
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ReplyDeleteThat's okay. But when you hit return, just hit 'shift' at the same time. Good job. And I totally agree about the NFL OT policy. Lame. The only problem, I think, would be the possibilities of incredibly long games, which wouldn't work so well for Sunday programming (TV). Think about the 2007 Vols/Wildcats game with four overtimes - that would be hard on a Sunday night to keep an audience, kwim?
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you mrs. sumner-winter it could easily keep an audience if the people watching were true football fans. Anybody interested in the outcome of the game would stay tuned. I agree with alex, NFL should adjust rules to make it more like college. It doesn't have to be exactly like it.
ReplyDeletethat is a very interesting point. i completely agree with that. dont laugh at me but how exacly does the overtime system work in college. you are right its not fair for only one team to get a chance at scoring. if a team were to have a really strong offence to make up for a slightly weaker deffence then losing the toss wouldnt really help determine the better team. it would only determine that they had a weak deffence.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, just call me Wendy.
ReplyDeleteSecond, Trae, in college, each team gets a possession starting at the 25 yard line. At the end of those, if the tie continues past two sets of possessions, each team is required to attempt a two-point conversion.
Now, to the meat of the matter: the reason that Monday night football is no longer on regular network television is because so much of the audience was lost at ten o'clock (or eleven on the east coast). People switch off to either go to bed or to watch the news. I know that seems strange to a young person, but that's a fact. It's definitely NOT because of a lack of commitment on the part of the fans. But people have lives, ya know?
I do love the college OT structure, I just think that the motivating force behind the (business of the) NFL ($$) wouldn't be best served with that sort of system.
I guess in a college student's opinion, a longer game mean more time to enjoy the hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, and.... soda. I don't really think about the people who actually have jobs. So, I will no longer question their commitment to the sport. Now I will just question manliness!
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