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Professional football is entertainment. Fans want drama. They want to root for the players on their fantasy teams. They want instant gratification for their 70 bucks. Sudden death overtime gives it to them. Whoever scores first, wins. BOOM! John Madden is excited...
...main argument against sudden death overtime is that the coin toss dictates who wins. Historically, the team that wins the coin toss wins 51 percent of the time. Whoa! 51 percent! Geez, that is unfair! But even for those who say 51 is not 50, and thus the system should be changed, there is an even more convincing argument...
Fantasy teams would be ruined by the extra points in an overtime—owners would be rooting for their players to tie games and not win them. Right now, statistics count in overtime because the sudden death rule only extends the game for a limited time...
...them upstairs and used them as grandstands,” Wood recalls. “It’s a tiny room, so we had probably all of the people in the room when we were rowing, but it was incredibly loud. It was really exciting all of a sudden. We had a dead heat as a final in the championship in the event. That was actually great, it was very exciting for people to watch...
Though the Crimson played tough through four quarters, overtime and double overtime, it fell to MIT in sudden-death triple overtime...