Overtime is the NFL main Agenda

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 12:00 pm , filed under NFL News by Bill Gerber

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All the NFL team owners, Coaches and front office executives are going to meet in Orlando this week for the NFL’s annual meetings. All NFL analysts and senior players are believing that Overtime may be the main agenda in the meeting in order to change the format of Overtime.

There is a lot of things to discuss during the offseason, but Overtime policies might be the main agenda. The NFL’s competition committee has discovered that winning the coin toss can be an increasingly unfair advantage, or the final nail in the coffin for the team forced to kickoff. Finally, the committee has proposed that the league adjust its overtime format in the postseason.

All the team owners will analyze overtime rules, among other topics beginning on Sunday. NFL management is looking for the proposal of changing overtime rules for the regular season and also may discuss with the all team managements.
In 1994, the overtime kickoff was pushed back from the 35-yard line to the 30. Since then, the team winning the coin toss has won 58.9% of overtime games compared to 46.8% from 1974-1993.

As per the proposed new rule, both teams should get the ball atleast once unless a touchdown is scored on the opening possession. Otherwise the team who lost the coin toss would get a chance to win or tie the game. Should the game remain tied, sudden death is restored and the first team to score wins.

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