Fugowii
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Exactly...if you change the rules teams will play for over time instead of trying to win it in regulation.
So you're saying that the popularity and ratings growth of the NFL constitutes an endorsement of the league's overtime system in particular?
I suppose the ratings growth also argues that we should keep the pass interference and roughing the passer rules the same, too.
What does marketing have to do with how OT works?...now thats a bad example... And to attribute popularity and ratings to the OT is an amazingly bad conclusion. There is no empirical data that relates OT to those. Perhaps if it gets changed, they go up?
As for your argument that cause its harder to score in football then the NBA being a good reason for leaving it the same..thats pretty weak. Seems in the college game that system works fine, without major injury factors that can be proved, despite your speculation.
and you make this assertion based on what?
You think BB would not go for a win, and play for a tie when possible?
First, how often does a team get in a situation that they can score to tie, or score to win? Not very often. Teams will play for the win all the time, as long as they can. Given 2 seconds on the clock, FG to tie, TD to win. Teams take the FG now.
I think we're discussing the impact on not playing for the win when it's already tied in regulation. Depending on field position, personnel availability, conditions, etc. it would be far easier to go conservative if you get the ball back with say 1:21 left on the clock and your rookie QB is pinned inside your own 20 knowing that you would get a shot in OT even if the other team scored first. We went for it in that situation because we only needed a FG, we knew we might never see the ball again because if the Rams won the toss they were now scoring on our defense at will.
I never attribued popularity to OT, nor did I say it was a result of marketing, just said when your product is the most popular of all professional sports there is no need to change it's format to conform with less popular (and in cases struggling) sports OT formats.
And it was PatNasty making those other arguments.