When NFL owners decided in March to change the overtime rules for the postseason, it was widely reported that the potential application of the new procedure to the regular season could be considered during the next ownership meetings in May.
And “could” remains the key word. Commissioner Roger Goodell, who has said he believes the rule eventually will apply to the regular season, acknowledged that there’s a “potential” the issue will come up.
As we understand it, there’s no guarantee that the measure will come up for a vote at the one-day meeting on Tuesday. It could be that Goodell will hold the possible extension of the rule until it appears that there will be 24 votes in favor of it. It also could make sense to see the rule in action once during a playoff game before embracing it in the regular season.
Either way, one major point needs to be remembered regarding the application of the rule to the regular season. There would be more ties.
If the folks casting the votes are fine with that, so are we. Whether Donovan McNabb is fine with it is a separate issue.
Simple logical question here…..why would they include the new OT rules in the playoffs but not regular season???
It is time for the fans to speak. I have sent the following to the NFL PA. If you agree please send it to your local newspapers and Blogs.
I am a Football fan. I am also a worker. The players are workers no matter how much they are paid. They are the one’s who take the chance of being injured while they do their jobs. This will be a lock-out, the equivalent of a strike by the owners – not the players. The players have an average work life of under five years. The star players may have contracts in the millions, but most players are not in that category. The owners have profits in the 10′s of millions maybe 100′s, we can not know for sure since the owner’s never were willing to show their books. There is a reason for that. As a lock-out the workers have the right to seek employment in the same field, their contracts are not exclusive under the law in the case of a lock-out. If I worked for the PA, as the owners prepare for the lock-out, I would be preparing to set up an alternate league, arrange to play in public facilities, talk with individual local cable TV channels, get laws passed to give people the right to get PSL’s refunded, and other ways to put pressure on the owners not to lock-out the players and fans. Right now the owners are looking forward to a lock-out since they feel they have nothing to loose.
There shouldn’t be ANY overtime in football. That’s what the tie column is for. Let them play their asses off for 4 quarters.
No more playing for a field goal to tie and send it into overtime. No more running the clock down to send it into overtime.
And no more stupid rules for overtime.
I hope it happens.
It should be named the Brett Favre rule. Period