HEY BRO! WHAT UP?
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LOL, it's NEVER been that way. Never. Your football knowledge is showing again!
It is not the same as before.
Under the old system:
-The winner was forced to chose whether they wanted to kick/receive in the first half.
-The loser was forced to chose whether they wanted to kick/receive in the second half.
-It was not automatically the opposite in the second half. If you won the toss and decided to kick, the other team still had the option of deciding to receive in the second half. Obviously, this was stupid, so no one did it. If you won the toss you were forced to receive the ball to start the game.
Under the new system:
-The winner can decide whether they want to chose to kick/receive for the the first or the second half. If they chose to defer their decision to the second half, the losing team gets to chose whether they wanted to kick/receive for the first half, and much like the situation of the OLD winning team, are forced to receive.
Basically: Before the winning team on the coin toss was forced to receive in the first half, now they can chose to receive in the first or the second half.
This is where both of you are not getting my point. Nothing has changed because if team A wins the coin toss and decides to defer for the second half what do you think team A would do? Let's say they kicked in the first half. Do you think they would want to kick again for the second half? No they are going to want the ball for the start of the second half. If team B lost the coin toss but was given the choice to kick/receive because team A chose to defer, what do you think they would do? They would have to receive the ball because team A will want the ball in the second half. No team will ever win the coin toss, defer and decide to kick in the second half. It's a stupid rule. A great way to simplify this is to ask winners of the coin toss whether you want the ball for the start of the game or the start of the second half. It's that simple.
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