Should the NFL change its overtime format to be more similar to the NCAA's?
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Statistically, that's a pretty big advantage. Still, it's not insurmountable, and in 70% of overtime games, each team's offense had the ball. However, I don't think the issue is really fairness, per se. Sports outcomes have to accept some level of randomness. I believe the problem is that most fans identify more strongly with the star offensive players than with their team's defense. When the team loses in OT, and their own heroes didn't even get a chance to play (i.e., Peyton Manning), they feel cheated.
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I'm sure the statistics indicate an extreme bias towards the random team that happens to get the ball first. Winning an athletic game should not come down to randow draws .... I could watch lottery drawings for that kind of "excitement."
The game should come down to skill, and the NCAA overtime format allows that to happen.
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Since it's impossible to remove the premise of "someone gets the ball first", this will always exist. Frankly, I think the best way of retaining the most fairness with respect to ball possession is to completely remove the 'resetting' of it at the end of halves--in other words, ending the half should be the same as ending the 1st or 3rd quarter; play should pick up right where it left off.
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