Actually, the main problem with overtime is where the kickoffs are. They used to kick it from a closer yard line, and getting a touchback was pretty common. Recently, the NFL wanted to increase scoring, so they moved back the spot of the kick. The result? Teams are getting much better field position. So it's easier to score if you receive first in overtime. I think I saw a stat on this, but I forgot where.
Mr. Clutch, that is a good point. I can even agree with it. If you move the kickoff back you might get a slightly more competitive overtime, but as was said earlier. It's still 50-50 if you win so what does all of this matter.
Well it sucks if the team winning the toss wins 60% of the time. It basically puts too much weight into the coin toss. It almost decides the game. Yes, it's 50/50, but the game should be decided n the field. Move the kickoffs farther back, and you have a 50/50 chance to win even if you lose the coin toss.
To hell with it all. If the sport is too strenuous (that has to be one of the ugliest looking words) and no one can come up with a perfect solution. How about they do away with overtime and just flip a coin to see who wins.
was a Oilers fan for years and being a non houstonian i find it easy to say Go Titans (unless they play the Vikes)
and then we'll have football cards featuring the 50 different versions of the "state-themed" quarters. I can see my children one day saying "I'll trade you the 2019 Upper Deck Georgia quarter for the Topps rookie Hawaii quarter!"
THE NBA turned the coin toss into a very complex lottery system. Can you imagine what NFL referees would do to it.
Looks like Shaquille O'Neal isn't the only athlete to apologize for their failed comedic attempts... . . . Nedney apologizes for attempt at humor Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Joe Nedney will stick to kicking instead of comedy. The Tennessee Titans kicker has been apologizing for his attempt at humor when he said he might take up acting after drawing a penalty that let him atone for a miss with a game-winning field goal Saturday against Pittsburgh. "I've been trying to extinguish fires all day,'' Nedney said Monday. "I know there's a lot of people in Pittsburgh right now who are flaming mad and people around the nation that are flaming mad, and I'm sure the comment I made afterward left a really bad taste in everybody's mouth. I sincerely apologize for doing that, but it was only meant as a joke.'' Nedney went home feeling like a hero Saturday night after his kick in overtime gave the Titans a 34-31 victory over the Steelers and a berth in the AFC championship. When he woke up Sunday morning, he learned about the firestorm he unintentionally created. So he has been apologizing ever since. "I didn't mean to come off sounding cocky or put it in anybody's face,'' he said of his postgame comment. Now he wants to focus on his chance for payback against Oakland with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. He played three games for the Raiders in 1999, then was used briefly as an insurance policy for Sebastian Janikowski before being released in 2000. This was not how Nedney imagined his first playoff appearance would play out. A seven-year veteran with his eighth team, Nedney dreamed about kicking game-winning field goals but without the controversy at the end. Nedney missed a 48-yarder into a breeze at the end of regulation that would have given Tennessee the victory. Titans quarterback Steve McNair drove his team 61 yards to open the overtime and gave Nedney something kickers rarely, if ever get -- a second chance. Pittsburgh set off the surreal finish by calling a timeout an instant before Aaron Graham snapped the ball. Nedney kicked a 31-yard field goal through the uprights, and fireworks went off as officials announced it didn't count because the Steelers were granted the timeout. Nedney just laughed and lined up again. This time, he hooked it right. Pittsburgh cornerback Dewayne Washington, who had swung wide of Titans tight end Erron Kinney, ran into Nedney's left leg, spun him around and Nedney fell to the ground. It's not easy to knock down the 6-foot 5, 225-pound Nedney. He is one of NFL's two tallest kickers, along with Mike Vanderjagt of Indianapolis. He also was a receiver at Santa Teresa High in San Jose, Calif., until he punctured a lung in practice, forcing him to try kicking to avoid contact. This season, he had seven tackles on special teams and one against Pittsburgh. "I pride myself on not being a small, frail, unathletic kicker,'' Nedney said. "He got me down. I went down, and I got another chance. That's it.'' With Washington penalized for running into Nedney, the kicker got a third straight chance, this time from 26 yards. Pittsburgh tried to ice him again, but officials told the Steelers they had no timeouts left despite the scoreboard showing two remaining. Nedney, who hit 25 of 31 field goals this season for the second-highest percentage of his career, didn't waste his chance at redemption. Now he insists he has learned his lesson. He cannot wait to start talking about the Raiders and to play again near his hometown of San Jose. "What a better way to wipe the slate clean than to go out and have a good game against them? People forget very quickly as long as you do well week by week,'' Nedney said. "That's my goal -- to get everybody to forget this. Have a good game against Oakland, celebrate the victory and go on to San Diego.'' And he promises not to joke after a game again.
This how politicians came to be. These type of situation added up and they just quit saying much of anything. Waffle and say nothing. You won't get in trouble that way. ....Unless of course your a referee. Then you can't win any which way you go.
The Tennessee Titans kicker has been apologizing for his attempt at humor when he said he might take up acting after drawing a penalty that let him atone for a miss with a game-winning field goal Saturday against Pittsburgh. This sentence? What's the big deal?
He's apologizing for rubbing it in the faces of the referees and the entire country by joking about it... not just the joke itself. Apparently the Pittsburgh area has been up-in-arms about Nedney's quote and he's received a lot of heat.
I agree. It wasn't that bad. Pittsburgh is just frustrated. And he was surrounded by "friendly media" so he thought it would be funny.
people are sooooo unreasonably sensitive...it's a freaking football game!!! so you don't like joe neadney because he made a seemingly harmless statement...big freaking deal!!! apologies from players to fans of other cities for beating them??? i'm no titans fan, but this is ridiculous
