DOLPHINS: Overtime Rule Change

[Kristoffer Shields]

I don't think the rule change is a huge deal.  I would've been upset if they had done something like the college rule, which IMO changes the game too much.  But this just adds a possession if the first score is a FG. If nothing else, I'm glad they changed it before a Super Bowl ended in sudden death---not because I think the old rule was unfair, really, but just because the moaning and whining and hand-wringing that would have happened afterward would've been too much to take.



> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:17:48 -0400
> From: ldouglas at gmail.com
> To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
> Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: Overtime Rule Change
> 
> even Jim Rome called it the "Ol' Gunslinger Rule"
> 
> sucks when one guy forces a change in the way the higher ups want to
> market the game - especially when teams are nearly 60-men deep.
> 
> I don't think it was just Peter King - the TV pundits have all been
> squawking about this. "It's not fair, blah blah blah."
> 
> but I guess you can also blame coaches for "playing for overtime" for
> so long. either way it sucks.
> 
> On 3/25/10, Danny Nelson <cheesefrog at usa.net> wrote:
> > Could be.  I know that Peter King has been whining incessantly about that
> > game
> > since the minute it was over.  Poor Brett Favre, it just wasn't fair.  Now
> > I'm
> > not suggesting King had the pull to get this on the docket, but it appeared
> > to
> > me that he definitely stoked the fire every chance he got.
> >
> > ------ Original Message ------
> > From: ldouglas <ldouglas at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Part of me has to wonder if Brett Favre hadn't thrown that INT against
> >> the Saints in the conference title game whether or not this would have
> >> been an issue. Even if the Vikings were one of the 4 No votes.
> >
> >
> >
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