The NFL is a professional league striving to make football fair with instant replay and coaches challenges. Why do they have unfair overtime rules? A game decided by a coin flip is ludicrous. Under the current sudden death system all it takes for a team to win in overtime is to be the first team to score. A team can win the game in overtime on one posession, or even one play for that matter.
Football is offense, defense and special teams. Why not implement a simple professional solution that every fan and player will be satisfied with that is extremely fair to any teams strengths and weaknesses? Games are decided in quarters. Play one full 15 minute quarter of overtime. Each team will get their possession of the ball, probably even twice during the quarter. At the end of the quarter whoever is ahead wins. Regular season - If still tied at the end of full 15 minute quarter the game ends in a tie. Post season - Keep playing extra full 15 minute quarters until someone does win.
This solution will be fair to every player and coach and gives the fans something that is reasonable that they will like. Then no one will have to listen to all of the idiotic ideas of sports commentators. The NFL finally got instant replay right after an excrutiating twenty years of pain. Please, get overtime right... now. I think the current NFL overtime rules are total nonsense and it only makes me want Devin Hester on my team if they win the coin toss in overtime. The NBA & MLB got overtime/extra innings right. Anyone who says I'm wrong is a fan of the NFL's current overtime rules only because their team happened to win in overtime. Their team won the coin toss in overtime and drove forty yards to kick the field goal and win in less than three minutes of predictably boring action. But had the other team they were cheering against won the coin toss in overtime and kicked the field goal to win on the first possession that same person would think it was unfair.
This suggestion is not for the good of any one specific team, it is for the good of the entire league. Like I said, those who do not agree with me now will agree with me one day when their team loses on a coin flip. I think the Jerome Bettis Tails, Heads, Tails incident on Thanksgiving some years back as well as most every overtime game played proves my idea is a good one. When an NFL game goes into overtime, I turn the TV off and find out who won the next day.
