NFL's overtime rules: A refresher
Here's a quck refresher on the NFL's new overtime rule, which is in effect for the first time this postseason (via Mark Maske):
The team that gets the ball first in overtime can win the game by scoring a touchdown. If that team gets a field goal, its opponent gets a possession with a chance to tie the score with a field goal or win it with a touchdown. If that team gets a tying field goal, the game proceeds on a sudden-death basis. If neither team scores on its first possession of overtime, the game is sudden death from there.
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Cindy Boren
| January 15, 2011; 7:25 PM ET
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What happens if there's a Safety FIRST?
Paging Donovan McNabb for clarification!
Posted by: SMACK1 | January 9, 2011 12:47 PM | Report abuse
Long way to go here. If the Stillers can stop yacking up on themselves and it's close going into the 4th. Ben will find a way to win.
Posted by: Diesel44 | January 15, 2011 6:23 PM
This guy
Posted by: Diesel44 | January 15, 2011 9:02 PM | Report abuse
Posted by: SMACK1 | January 9, 2011 12:47 PM
Jan 9? What happened? Where am I? Why is there a tiger in my bathroom?
Posted by: Diesel44 | January 15, 2011 9:09 PM | Report abuse
Paging Donovan McNabb for clarification!
Can you imagine, sometime in the next 2-4 years, McNabb could be in the booth trying to explain things?
Words fail me.
Posted by: daggar | January 15, 2011 9:29 PM | Report abuse
Mike Smith needs a bro or some pasties.
Posted by: Diesel44 | January 15, 2011 10:12 PM | Report abuse
Ok, I'll turn out the lights.
Posted by: Diesel44 | January 15, 2011 10:31 PM | Report abuse
Uh-oh...maybe this game isn't over yet. Nah...
Posted by: CindyBoren | January 15, 2011 10:40 PM | Report abuse
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