It is no secret that we are very much opposed to the NFL’s modified sudden death format. (Rather than repeat, see our rant from the 2010...
Jeff Triplette, meet Dante Hicks. Much like the downtrodden cashier from Clerks, Triplette was not even supposed to be here this Sunday. Triplette was heading Scott...
Last March, change came for the sake of change. As Competition Committee co-chairman Rich McKay stated, “sometimes you want to get ahead of a problem and...
NFL OWNERS APPROVE ‘MODIFIED SUDDEN DEATH’ We think that the overtime format, more than 50 years removed from its first use with no modification, has worked...
NFL OWNERS APPROVE ‘MODIFIED SUDDEN DEATH’ The Competition Committee moved on changing the dynamic of postseason overtime on a nonexistent platform: field position after a kickoff...
NFL OWNERS APPROVE ‘MODIFIED SUDDEN DEATH’ Unintended consequences of the new rule (that we see) are: Overtime can end on an unspectacular loss on downs, or...
1st major modification in league history Yes, that headline is screaming. And for good reason. The NFL now can’t simply resolve a tie game much like...
