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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...
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...