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Apr 10
One must admit that it sucks to play for sixty full minutes hard and strong, and have the fate of your whole game almost completely decided on a coin toss. If you’re into football at the least, check this link out.
(April 8, 2007) — Everyone agrees that NFL overtime is a problem, but no one agrees on how to solve it, as demonstrated at the recent owners’ meetings. But everyone overlooks the most obvious solution of all: If it ain’t working, don’t use it! That’s right, drop overtime, except in the playoffs. Regular season games existed happily with the occasional draw for decades. So if it’s unfair, it doesn’t work, and we don’t need it, why keep it?
Mike Carlson, Special to NFL.com | Read Article
Apr 11, 2007 @ 11:00:14
Why don’t they just make it work like basketball. Remove the sudden death aspect and let the clock run. Whoever scores the most in the set amount of time wins. And yea, of course at this point it will come out to which team is more durable because it is hard enough to play that full sixty minutes. But this seems like the fairest solution to me.