Opinion | NFL can learn from the CFL on the better way to decide an overtime game

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Angry NFL observers are taking all kinds of potshots after the Buffalo Bills lost a stunning OT classic to the Kansas City Chiefs. NFL can learn from the CFL on the better way to decide an overtime game. Opinion by DamoSpin

; or the fact the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn’t think covering the NFL’s best receiver, Cooper Kupp, was an absolute necessity late in their loss to the Rams.

Instead, in a league that has emphasized offence more and more in recent years, helping to grow the average team value to more than $3.5 billion , there’s a rather rancorous discussion going on about NFL overtime rules that is overshadowing the entire weekend. Here’s the difference between the NFL and CFL:

The Canadian format seems clearly superior and creates more entertaining scenarios, noteworthy at a time when concerned CFL owners in search of more customers are considering rule changes that might involve the three-down game becoming closer to the American four-down brand.“The rules are what they are and I can’t complain about that. If it was the other way around, we’d be celebrating too,” he said.

 

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DamoSpin Rightly so, especially in that game. Bills should have had a chance to an O.T. reply! Stupid way to end.

DamoSpin After losing in OT in similar fashion to NE, the Chiefs asked the league to change the rules. The rest of the teams, including Buffalo said no. Too bad so sad.

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