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...explain—the team that wins the toss must score a touchdown on its opening drive in order to win a sudden death victory. This would prevent the more common “drive down the field and kick a field goal” event that fans hate. Now, teams could still elect to do this, but they would then have to stop the opposing team, get the ball back, and kick another field goal...
Last year, a record 25 games went into overtime, and 11 games were won by the team who received the opening kick off. A whopping 10 games were decided on the first possession...
Since the inception of sudden death overtime in 1974, the winner has decided to kick off only nine times out of 350 regular season overtime games. Only four of those nine teams won on the gamble that the other team would not score on its first possession...
...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...
...Kick the can down the road. The biggest economic deal for President George W. Bush was to get China to bend on its currency, the Yuan. China wouldn't budge - why should it, given how much of the U.S. debt it is financing? The answer: form a U.S.-Chinese panel to study the issue. Don't count on much to happen, despite a few rhetorical signs of flexibility from the Chinese...