I have two ideas for overtime. Both involve getting rid of the complicated ruleset they put into practice some years ago.
1. Go back to how it was before. Sudden death. No "everyone gets a turn" method. Who cares if there are ties or not.
2. People wanted the overtime rule to change because they hated the hurry up and kick a field goal way of winning games. So my idea is get rid of kickers AND punters. Flip a coin. opening kickoff to the other team. Teams cannot kick field goals or punt. Turnovers are on downs. First team to score a touchdown wins. If time expires, it is a tie.
Either I would not be against making it a short period, aka not a regular quarter.
And this is only for regular season games. Post season seems to have too much history involved where there is a game winning field goal to remove that rule to begin with. Such a huge change, the NFL should have retired the Super Bowl and started over with a version 2 or something.
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