Suddenly: death!
One of the biggest advantages that baseball has over other sports is in its ending potential. More than any of the timed sports, you have a much greater potential to have the game end on a single play, on a team doing something incredible instead of just time expiring with a big huge "meh".
So as the game between the Redskins and Jaguars—my two least-favorite teams in the NFL—ended in a thrilling long pass, I wondered how anyone could criticize sudden-death overtime. It's the only chance that any of the non-baseball sports have of matching that thrilling ending, and watching the tens of thousands of people in ridiculous FedEx field going nuts as Santana Moss streaked for the endzone, I couldn't imagine how anyone in the world could have a problem the NFL's approach to regulation ties, could feel as though it's inferior to the NCAA's Calvin Ball-like overtime rules. It's about as thrilling as it gets, even when you wish that both teams could lose.
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yeah, I was thinking the same thing while watching that - great catch too, man - but, yes, the NCAA rules are just dumb, dumb, dumb. I'd rather go back to the days of ties. Plus, isn't it true with the NFL system that it's really about only half the teams who win the coin toss go on to win the game? If that's true, then why in the world would anyone think it's a bad system?
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