who thinks NFL needs better overtime system? I say 10 min O/T no sudden death. both teams can touch ball. i?
106506
They should follow the NCAA overtime system.  Much like they did with the 2 point conversion.
1082124
lol, its because when players are injured or stuff happens during the game, the timer doesnt stop. in the end the main referee will decide wether to add time to make up the lost of time during a game. he can decide how long to add to the game. usually not over 5 min.
1035899
it sucks...people responded poorly to my question as well....I DON'T WANT OFFICIALS TO BE CALLED ON DURING THE GAME...let them make their bad calls..they're gonna do that anyway...but if they make a GAME deciding call and it is controversial...get the press conference and make them  defend it...and justify or apologize for the bad call...
302646
A game continues with 20 minute periods until someone scores and the game has a winner and a loser.  During the season, they don't want games to go on for hours and hours (mostly because of the TV contracts).\nThe shootout that just was instituted is a fast ending to games (again, TV).  I'm not a big fan because it turns a team game into 1-on-1.  It is exciting and that was the idea . . . i just don't like it.  They want the best TEAMS to advance to the finals . . .  . hence OT til the game ends
394175
It's been there forever for a reason. If two teams keep playing so well defensively the game can go on for hours. And players cannot handle that kinda length of game. It's alot more tiring than basketball or football. \n\nI think it's the quickest, most efficient, and most memorable way to end games.
981956
I've felt the exact same thing for about a year now.\n\nThe problem with the NFL now versus 20 years ago is that offensive systems have become so complex that only a few quarterbacks can learn them, and even they must have plays called from the sidelines.  (The last NFL quarterback to call his own plays - for the whole game - was Jim Kelly.  Nobody else has since the early 1980s.)  \n\nOf course, quarterbacks no longer calling their own plays is an *absolutely* *unrelated* to the 40 second play clock instituted during that decade.... (Yeah, right!)\n\nHaving quarterbacks who alternate based on the series and situation is a good idea.  There are many benefits to it:\n\n1) Injuries.  When 50-80% of players use steroids and HGH, having two game-ready quarterbacks is a good thing.  In the last decade, nearly half the NFL's starting quarterbacks in any given year missed games due to injury.  That never happened in the 1960s, 1970s, or even the 1980s.\n\n2) Less to learn.  Quarterbacks who have lots of talent but not the ability to learn more complex systems could thrive.  (If anybody is thinking "Jimmy the Greek" or "Rush Limbaugh" crap about black QBs, please kill yourself.  There are more white QBs by percentage who wash out than blacks.)  Improvisational players could get by on talent in ways that they can't now.\n\n3) Versatlity.  Very few players can do everything well.  Switching QBs could force defenses to switch personnel, leading to more defensive lapses and penalties just by changing one offensive player.\n\n4) Play calling.  Why have a receiver bring in one play at a time or use hand or radio signals and risk miscommunication, when an offensive coordinator could send in a QB with 5-10 plays at a time, enough for 1-2 sets of downs?  There would be less mistakes, and as they say in hockey, "fresh legs" because the player catches his breath.\n\n5) Defensive hell.  Marv Levy once talked about using Jim Kelly at QB and Doug Flutie at halfback and the havoc it could have caused defenses, this during the years of the "Ace" formation with one running back, Thurman Thomas and three wide receivers.  (He never tried it because Bills' management wouldn't let him.)  Just imagine having two capable passers on the field at once, one of them capable of running or receiving as well.  If Pittsburgh had used Neil O'Donnell and Cordell Stewart in this way, maybe both of them could have had great careers.\n\n\n.
1124265
I've actually enjoyed the AFL this year. The only bad thing about it is because there is so much scoring, there's a lot of slow time or down time for extra points and kickoffs. They should do something to make this part of the game quicker or more exciting.
1118607
I can see your point about players who go for a 50-50 tackle, lie down till the Doc comes on, Then the stretcher and goes off and is up on his feet within seconds to get back on the field of play,\nsomething needs to be done about this, but can you really be sure??\nWhat must happen is that EVERY time this happens ALL time wasted must be added to the clock even if it means 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 minutes is added on players and IMPORTANTLY Managers and Coaches will soon put an end too it.\n\nNOW an all together PROBLEM is when,\nA player deliberately tries to fool a Referee into having an opponent sent off for serious foul play,\nThis cannot be tolerated and FIFA should take action and suspend and or Fine these players.
489598
I like the new rules to speed up the game. But I don't like calling penalties for playing hard and physical. I don't like the shootout. Not a true test of who won the game. Hockey is a team game not a one on one contest. But from the other side it would be very hard to play 82 overtime games :) I would like to get the commissioner alone and yell at him tell him that falling is not a penalty. I don't like to see players taking a dive to draw bulls_hit calls. (Detroit) I want to see them tweak the rules a bit to allow more hitting without calls. I would also like to see some protection for the goalies. Its open season at the cage without the defense slowing down the forwards. It seems that if you even poke check someone and they hold your stick under there arms its a penalty. That's crap. bottom line is more speed good but its come at the expense of hard nosed play. I can only imagine what Don Cherry thinks.
21509
In the NFL during regular season and preseason games there is one overtime period before it is called a tie during the playoffs and championship games there has to be a winner so they will keep playing until there is a winner which could mean 4-5 or any number of overtime periods :)
669783
15 minutes, same as NFL
830222
Objective: American football is played by two teams who will have eleven players on the field at any one time. The object of the game is to get the ball to the opponents end of the field, and score more points than the opposing team.\n\nTo start a game, the referee will toss a coin. The visiting captain calls. The winner of the toss can decide whether to start in offense (receive the kick) or defense (deliver the kick). When play restarts in the second half, the captain who lost the toss at the beginning of the game chooses.\n\nIf a game goes into overtime, the first team to score wins, so the captain will almost always choose to go on the offense. Teams change ends at the start of the quarter.\n\nPlaying time lasts for one hour, divided into four fifteen minute quarters. There is a fifteen minute break between the second and third quarters (each half of the game).\n\nThe clock is stopped when the ball is not in play, when a foul has been committed, or when a fair catch has been caught. The clock is also stopped for time outs. Both teams are allowed three time outs, lasting a maximum of two minutes each, in each half.\n\nBoth the clock and the game itself are stopped two minutes from the end of each half by the referee to allow the teams to plan their strategies.\n\nIf the scores are level at the end of the fourth quarter, overtime will be played. In NFL games, only one period of overtime is played, and if the scores are still level, the game is declared a draw. For championship and playoff games, periods are played until a winner is decided (the first team to score).\n\n\n\n\nMORE COMPLEX RULES\n\n\n\nKick off \nTop of page\n\nPlay starts with a kick off at the start of the second half, but when the teams turn around and change ends at the start of the first and third quarters, play is started from the same position on the field as where it finished, but in the opposite half of the field. The same team will keep possession.\n\nThe kick-off is used to restart play after all point-afters and field goals. The kick-offs are always taken from the 35-yard line, unless a penalty has been given. The team making the point after always restarts the game with a kick-off. If the kick is unsuccessful, the defense starts play from their own 25-yard line and so they become the offense.\n\n\n\nScoring \nTop of page\n\nAs with many sports, the object is to score more points than the opponents. There are several different ways of scoring in American football.\n\nThe largest single score comes from a touchdown. This is worth six points. It is scored when an offensive player runs into the opposing end zone while in possession of the ball. A receiver can also make a catch delivered into the same area. The ball does not have to be actually 'touched down' on the ground for the points to be scored.\n\nA successful touchdown is followed by a kick through the goalposts, known as the conversion, or 'point-after'. This is worth one point. For this, the ball is placed on the 2-yard line and snapped (passed backwards through the legs) to the kicker, who tries to kick it over the crossbar and between the upright posts.\n\nA player can touch the ball onto the ground in the end zone without their whole body being in the end zone, and the touchdown still counts. However, the scoring player must not be pushed or helped in any way by other players.\n\nThe next type of scoring is called the field goal. A field goal counts as three points. It is taken from 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage (the line where the last play ended, so the next play is made from there), to give the kicker more time, and some protection from the defense. Again, the ball must be kicked through the posts. The kicker is credited for the kick from whatever distance it was taken from.\n\nThe fourth and final way of scoring is called the safety. Two points are awarded to the offensive team when the defensive team are caught in possession of the ball in their own end zone.\n
28362
I say let them score. The other team isn't going to risk a fumble, so they're going to take a knee, let the clock run down to 3 seconds, then kick a field goal. \nThe odds of you making a touchdown in 1 minute are usually better than them missing a chip shot field goal. Unless your offense really stinks.
1019200
AFL is better. It is a more freeflowing game and much more exciting. The referees kill the game (rugby) and the constant playing of the ball makes it kinda boring...go penrith! go collingwood!
904217
i agree that a playoff system is needed because it forces a stronger method of determining a champion.\n\nhowever, what will the playoff system be determined on?  RANKINGS!  which are based on the AP, USA Today and Harris polls.  Isn't that what we have now?\n\nAre people going to still cry during the season when their teams aren't ranked a certain number and then get seeded in an unfavorable way?  Just a thought...
777347
I am definitely against this rule.  The techs are getting way out of hand.  It's as if the officials don't want the players to express emotions, as if they were machines.  The emotion is what makes games exciting!!  I can understand the loud, obnoxious whining on every call, but they give techs for just reacting on a call u don't like!!  And I hope they don't give these quick techs in th playoffs.  I actually think these quick techs are hindering the game more than the complaining is.
129357
I admit, I was pissed at the officials watching the Super Bowl.  But with that said, I don't think officials are getting any worse then they were 5, 10, 20 years ago.  \n\nOfficiating is simply relying on your best judgement at a very high rate of speed without the benefit of instant replay in slow motion (unless of course it's challenged).  The officials know the rules and the league now has instant replay for QA purposes.  I don't know where we would benefit by having officials work full time.  They are graded every game and they watch the film weekly to see what went right and what went wrong.