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NFL To Discuss Overtime Rules for Playoffs

Article By on 1st March, 2010

... Committee will propose a plan to change the rules of overtime in the playoffs.

The plan would allow both NFL teams to have a possession in overtime, rather than not giving the ball to the team that loses the coin flip if the first team scores.

According to an inside source, the overtime rules would go like this:

If the OT receiving team scores a touchdown, the game is over. If the receiving team does not score and the opposing team kicks a field goal or scores a touchdown, the game is over. If the receiving team kicks a field goal on its first possession, the opposing team gets a possession. If that team does not score, the game is over.

Under current rules, the first team to score wins. The 2009 NFC Championship game...

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