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You're one to talk bernie. I nearly wacked it to yours yesterday.

Re: Football overtime
 

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As far as your idea is concerned, why the 5-yard line? IMO, this wouldn't be any better than the current system. Most likely it would be a disavantage to the team that "won" the coin toss. Football is such a field position game -- starting so close to their own goal line would hamstring an offense to the point where they'd be wasting a series just getting into position to punt. The team receiving the punt would most likely wind up with ridiculous field position at that point, needing only a field goal to win.

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The 5 was just what I thought would be best. The exact yard line should be such that it would be a dificult choice for the team that wins the coin toss (they choose to start on offence or defence).

I suppose that a better system would be a bidding system:

Team A: "We can win starting from our own 20 yard line"

Team B: "We can win starting form our 15 yard line"

Team A: "We can win from our 10 yard line"

Team B: "We can win from our 8 yard line"

Team A: "Take the ball on your 8 yarld line"

but I think this seams to silly, and might take to long.

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You're one to talk bernie. I nearly wacked it to yours yesterday.

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I guess you're really lucky we can't combine the two. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Re: Football overtime
 

How about this idea? We keep it the same, except a field goal doesn't win the game anymore. You need to score a TD (or safety) to win, anything else doesn't count. And also, having something like more equitable field position would be better.

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As far as your idea is concerned, why the 5-yard line? IMO, this wouldn't be any better than the current system. Most likely it would be a disavantage to the team that "won" the coin toss. Football is such a field position game -- starting so close to their own goal line would hamstring an offense to the point where they'd be wasting a series just getting into position to punt. The team receiving the punt would most likely wind up with ridiculous field position at that point, needing only a field goal to win.

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The 5 was just what I thought would be best. The exact yard line should be such that it would be a dificult choice for the team that wins the coin toss (they choose to start on offence or defence).

I suppose that a better system would be a bidding system:

Team A: "We can win starting from our own 20 yard line"

Team B: "We can win starting form our 15 yard line"

Team A: "We can win from our 10 yard line"

Team B: "We can win from our 8 yard line"

Team A: "Take the ball on your 8 yarld line"

but I think this seams to silly, and might take to long.

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this is AWESOME

Re: Football overtime
 

I think college football style but starting out at midfield would be better for college.

For the nfl I think they should play a full quarter. If they're still tied after that play another full quarter. After that go with a quarter of sudden death. The death part might be literal after playing an extra half hour. It would also be acceptable to make OT ten minutes instead of 15 and play it out.

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I think this idea is an excellent idea that would greatly improve quality of OT, and I can't believe it hasn't been thought of yet:

You need to get a TD to win the game (or a safety). No more drive to the 30-yard line, get in field goal position, and kick it for the win. You need to march down the field and get 6 points to win.

Again, very simple idea: field goals don't count in OT. Only TD's do.

Combined with more equitable field position to make both sides equal, I think we have the makings of an excellent OT system.

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How about this idea? We keep it the same, except a field goal doesn't win the game anymore. You need to score a TD (or safety) to win, anything else doesn't count. And also, having something like more equitable field position would be better.

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This is close. First to 6 points wins. If that's two field goals, fine.

OP's idea is awful.

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I think the bidding idea is great.

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The college OT is the worst imo.

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It's worse than shootouts in hockey/soccer.