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Pat McAfee offers overhaul to NFL’s overtime rules after two of four playoff games go to OT

Kevin Cunningham

By Kevin Cunningham

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Are you an NFL fan? In particular, are you a Buffalo Bills, Houston Texans, Minnesota Vikings or New Orleans Saints fan?

If so, your team was affected by the NFL’s overtime rules. Sometimes, it seems as though the rules are fair. Other times, not so much.

As it stands, there’s a coin toss that starts the period. The winner of the coin toss then chooses to receive the kick and if it scores a touchdown, the game is over. If not, the other team gets a chance to either respond with a field goal or win the game with a touchdown. If no scoring happens, the game just continues to go on until someone scores.

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If two of the four NFL playoff games this weekend, overtime was involved. The Bills-Texans game and Vikings-Saints game both went to the extra period which saw the Texans and Vikings advance.

Are the rules 100 percent fair? Of course not. It’s hard to be.

But after the games ended, and on Monday morning, former NFL punter Pat McAfee offered his suggestion for what the new rules of the NFL’s overtime should be:

Agree or disagree, football fans?

Kevin Cunningham

Kevin covers Big Ten football for Saturday Tradition.