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NFL owners approved a change to the overtime format for postseason play on Tuesday at the annual league meetings in Orlando, Fla.
Team owners voted 28-4 in favor of the change, with 75 percent of the votes (24) needed to pass the proposal. The Packers voted in favor of the change.
Where in the past overtime was a sudden-death format, the new rule will give each team a possession if the team with the ball first only scores a field goal. If the first team that has possession scores a touchdown, the game would be over. But if that team scores a field goal, the other team would get the opportunity to either tie the game with a field goal or win with a touchdown. If both teams were to make a field goal, the next team to score would win.
"We (Head Coach Mike McCarthy and GM Ted Thompson) talked about it," Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy said late Tuesday afternoon. "At the end of the day we wanted to hear what everybody had to say about it, but I think we all ..
Source: Packers.com
