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Right now, the winner of a coin toss at the beginning of overtime in an NFL game decides which team receives the ball, and the first team to score wins. This system has an inherent flaw by not ensuring both teams have an offensive series...
Since 1994 (not including this season), almost 60 percent of teams who won the coin toss won the game, with 38.7 percent winning on the first possession...
...coin toss should simply determine who gets the ball first, not who wins the game...
...perhaps the greatest coin toss controversy in football history, Pittsburgh and Detroit went into overtime in the Thanksgiving game. Jerome Bettis called “tails” for the Steelers, but for some reason referee Phil Luckett heard “heads...
...both NFL teams were assured one possession, the winner of the coin toss would have a real choice to make: does the team kick off first in order to know whether it needs a field goal or a touchdown to win, or does the team receive in hopes of putting pressure on its opponent by scoring first? Coaches would still take chances because they’d want to go up by a touchdown instead of just a field goal...