But it's actually playing the sport of football. Where offense, defense, time management and all is playing football. I get what your saying, but both teams would get the ball with the second team having plenty of opportunity to match the first score. Both teams get timeouts to manage the clock.FantasyFreak wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 6:00 pmThat's actually not even fair unless you split it into 2 halves.remedy29 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:21 pmFantasyFreak wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:51 pm
Still doesn't change the fact the rules favour the winner of the toss. I can't believe people still argue this. It's common sense. Would you have posted if Mahomes had walked down and won?
The reality is, the fact of this was put down by a previous poster. 100 percent of teams that win the toss choose taking the ball, because they know the rules are inherently uneven after that.
THE GREATEST ARGUMENT: That nobody has stated, for the fairness of the OT rule is that. In fact. You have a 1/2 chance of winning a coin toss. So the deciding factor to make it unfair after that, is inherently fair.
The only real fair OT rule would be to play an extra period, either 10 or 15 minutes. If it's tied after that, then play another one and so on. The NFL will never do that in the regular season, I doubt they'll do it for the post season.
Other than that, I'd be in favor of eliminating the coin toss in OT, and somehow have the receiver of the ball first in OT be known in regulation. This way both teams can strategize knowing who gets the ball first in OT.
And I would not have been happy if KC won the game. I thought they were pretty poor all season and certainly not deserving of a SB appearance. Thankfully the great advantage of "winning the OT coin toss" couldn't even help them in the end.
You can't play an entire half, because it's overtime, it doesn't have to follow regulation rules.