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Boomhauer said:
Fans should get a refund if it ends in a tie
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The NFL changed the OT rules beginning Sept '24 I think. Old OT rules that existed for 50 years with "sudden death" OT IOW flip the coin to determine possession and 1st team to score wins.

Now it should be called "slow death" OT. Each team gets a possession AND a participation ribbon, and the viewing public gets a kite stick in the skrote.

The fact that the OT rules go back to the tried and true "sudden death" OT during playoffs prove this bat guano needs to be addressed.
 
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SW toad said:
The NFL changed the OT rules beginning Sept '24 I think. Old OT rules that existed for 50 years with "sudden death" OT IOW flip the coin to determine possession and 1st team to score wins.

Now it should be called "slow death" OT. Each team gets a possession AND a participation ribbon, and the viewing public gets a kite stick in the skrote.

The fact that the OT rules go back to the tried and true "sudden death" OT during playoffs prove this bat guano needs to be addressed.
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NFL hasn't had true sudden death for almost 15 seasons. They moved to giving the opposing team a chance with the ball if the first team gets a field goal back in 2012 (first started in the 2010 playoffs). Then they changed OT from 15 to 10 minutes in 2018. The only difference they added this year is adopting the 2022 playoff rules, where the opposing team gets a chance regardless of if the first team scores a TD or Field Goal.

And they do not go back to true "sudden death" during the playoffs either. In fact, both of the changes above were "playoffs only" rules until they were adopted for the regular season (2010 for the field goal rule adopted in 2012, 2022 for the both-teams-get-a-possession regardless rule adopted in 2025), so quite the opposite. We saw it in action when the 49ers kicked an OT field goal in Super Bowl LVIII only for the Chiefs to win it with a touchdown.
 
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NovaScotiaFrog said:
NFL hasn't had true sudden death for almost 15 seasons. They moved to giving the opposing team a chance with the ball if the first team gets a field goal back in 2012 (first started in the 2010 playoffs). Then they changed OT from 15 to 10 minutes in 2018. The only difference they added this year is adopting the 2022 playoff rules, where the opposing team gets a chance regardless of if the first team scores a TD or Field Goal.

And they do not go back to true "sudden death" during the playoffs either. In fact, both of the changes above were "playoffs only" rules until they were adopted for the regular season (2010 for the field goal rule adopted in 2012, 2022 for the both-teams-get-a-possession regardless rule adopted in 2025), so quite the opposite. We saw it in action when the 49ers kicked an OT field goal in Super Bowl LVIII only for the Chiefs to win it with a touchdown.
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I think they should do away with OT during the regular season. No need for it, a tie is a perfectly OK outcome for a regular season game.

I like sudden death overtime except no FG's for the first team that gets the ball.
 
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Wexahu said:
I think they should do away with OT during the regular season. No need for it, a tie is a perfectly OK outcome for a regular season game.

I like sudden death overtime except no FG's for the first team that gets the ball.
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I prefer no ties, but I think you're right that a field goal can't win it on the first possession but then go sudden death is the way to go. Taking the time down to 10 minutes was what really made the OT produce more ties.

I like how they do it in some of those spring leagues, where it's a 2-point conversion best-of-5. Makes it quicker while still having a definitive winner rather than leaving so much to the coin toss.
 
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NovaScotiaFrog said:
NFL hasn't had true sudden death for almost 15 seasons. They moved to giving the opposing team a chance with the ball if the first team gets a field goal back in 2012 (first started in the 2010 playoffs). Then they changed OT from 15 to 10 minutes in 2018. The only difference they added this year is adopting the 2022 playoff rules, where the opposing team gets a chance regardless of if the first team scores a TD or Field Goal.

And they do not go back to true "sudden death" during the playoffs either. In fact, both of the changes above were "playoffs only" rules until they were adopted for the regular season (2010 for the field goal rule adopted in 2012, 2022 for the both-teams-get-a-possession regardless rule adopted in 2025), so quite the opposite. We saw it in action when the 49ers kicked an OT field goal in Super Bowl LVIII only for the Chiefs to win it with a touchdown.
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Well OK I correct my original post and say "SUDDEN DEATH" from 1908 to 2010 was a non-abomination. I only took my dates from the NFL network this morning that the change took place to give every team a chance and a possession.at beginning of '24. Fascinating if true if the NFL started the participation trophy crap in 2010-2102.

Actually aligns with all the other wild cultural shifts in America during 2010. No more historical win, place, show. Let us give 5th and 6th place PARTICIPATION trophies. A true whittling chiseling away at meritocracy.

Do you think giving each team having a chance/possession is the right way???? It is truly truly an ignorance of recognizing player safety and CTE. So, the NFL existed for 50 or so years with 12 games. Then the NFL moved it to 16 games, Then 17 games. THIS is why we have a record number of injuries this year. Achilles, hamstrings, rotator cuffs, ACLs, MCLs, High ankle sprains. The NFL does not give flip about player safety.
 

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