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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 708710" data-attributes="member: 7261">Let's look at the opposite side of your scenarios.  Under the current rules, in a tied game, Team A gets the ball with under 2 minutes at their own 20 yard line.  Decides they will take their chances in OT, rather than risk actually playing the game of football, 3 kneel downs, ho-hum....game goes into OT.Packer-Dallas game, how would the OT rule I suggest directly impact that game?  Packers would have at some point turned the ball over or tried to score, its football.  Both you and Captain are only talking about  "the excitement" for fans, not the outcome of the game being impacted. I would have found it just as exciting for Crosby to have made that FG in OT.   Had Crosby missed that FG, Dallas gets the ball to start OT at the spot of the kick.....no coin toss that potentially gives the ball immediately back to the Packers.</blockquote>

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