Monday, November 10, 2008

how important is the overtime coin flip?

In overtime, they have a coin flip to determine who will kick and who will recieve, just like in the beginning. Like always, the away team chooses heads or tails, the referee flips the coin, the winner of the coin flip decides if they want to kick or recieve, and overtime begins.

The importance is that the receiving team gets the ball, does a couple running plays, passes the ball a little bit, and eventually they throw a deep pass to a touchdown or scores a touchdown regulary and the other team never gets a chance to play on offense.