NFL owners to vote on modified overtime proposal on Wednesday Aaron Wilson
Now that the NFL competition committee has voted to recommend a proposal advocating a modified overtime rule for the postseason, it begs the question:
Will the proposal pass muster wit the NFL owners and receive the required 24 of 32 votes?
In the informed opinion of New York Giants owner John Mara, who's a meber of the competition committee, it's going to be a tough sell.
"I still think it's an uphill battle because you have to get 24 votes to change it," Mara told Newsday. "I don't know if there are enough people around the league willing to change the current system."
According to Newsday and the New York Times, the proposal was voted in by a 6-2 margin to be submitted to the NFL owners with Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome and Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis reportedly voting against recommending changes to the existing sudden-death format.
ESPN has reported that it was a unanimous vote.
The proposed rule change will be voted on Wednesday morning,
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I don't feel real strongly about O/T either way, but I do like the tension that sudden death creates.
They are messing with the rules too much, too often nowadays.
Regulation is based on time which gives a team's defense AND offense equal chances depending on the time. But in overtime the game IS changed from time to either your offense scoring or your defense stopping the opponent. Therefore, I think the current overtime system DOES already change the game for the worse. IMO
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Mar 21, 2010
02:35 PM
Unless you are a team that wins the coin toss every time or have never been screwed by the wacky one and done rules of today, how could you possibly oppose this? But, look how long it took them to agree on Instant replay. I think the generation that loved the "human element" of the refs blowing games must have died off.