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Owners set to vote on change to postseason overtime rules

Associated Press

 

NEW YORK -- NFL owners will vote next week whether to allow each team a possession in overtime in the playoffs if the team winning the OT coin toss kicks a field goal on the first series.

 

Previously, the game would end whenever either side scores, as happened in the NFC Championship in January, with New Orleans beating Minnesota on Garrett Hartley's kick. But NFL competition committee chairman Rich McKay says a trend has developed showing too strong an advantage for teams winning the coin toss to start overtime.

 

If the team that falls behind by three points on the first series also kicks a field goal, then the game would continue under current sudden death rules.

 

The proposal is only for the postseason.

 

NFL.com

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