I don’t often post on sports, but this weekend I watched all four NFL playoff games. Every one of them was great. Three of the four were decided by a field goal in the last few seconds. The fourth was tied up by a field goal in the last few seconds and went into overtime. <\/p>\n
After an epic back and forth battle between the Bills and the Chiefs — where each team was scoring on most of their drives, and a record 25 points were scored in the last two minutes! — the overtime rules didn’t seem fair. <\/p>\n
Here’s how it works. The team that gets the ball first in overtime is decided by a coin toss, and if that team scores a touchdown on their first posession, that’s it. They win. <\/p>\n
It didn’t seem right for this super-charged, offense-dominated game. <\/p>\n
When I was a kid I’m pretty sure overtime was an additional 15 minutes of play, and whoever scored the most in those 15 minutes won. That would have seemed more reasonable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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