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Change NFL Overtime? Yes We Can!

 
"The kick is up from Feely...and it's good! Jets win!" Only Gus Johnson could make that truly exciting. Why should a game with such a great finish in regulation have to end it's overtime period with a boring field goal? "Change" has been the theme of this most recent election season.  Now in this NFL season, change can begin.  Let's change NFL overtime. I feel like Randy Moss deserves this. Moss hasn't ever been considered a team guy before the last year and a half, so as a football fan, to see him make a great diving catch with :01 left instead of heading to the locker room early is exhilarating.  Why does that have to end with: snap, hold, kick, whoop-a-dee-doo? I hate high school/college overtime. A socialist, each team gets a possession from the 25-yard line type of overtime should never have been enacted in the Bush presidency.  I guess you could say it was ahead of it's time. Here's how to fix NFL overtime, and it's easy. Play to the first to score six points.  ... (link)

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