NFL Rule Book needs to be updated
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
They should, because, I don’t know about you but, I’m sick and tired of coin tosses deciding the outcome of an NFL game.
A standard NFL game consists of four quarters each with 15 minutes. The clock stops after certain plays. If an NFL game is tied after four quarters, the teams play an additional period called overtime game lasting up to 15 minutes.
NFL overtime rules say that in an NFL overtime game, the first team that scores wins, even if the other team does not get a possession. This is known as the sudden death. On the other hand, if neither team scores during the overtime, then the game is considered as a tie. In an NFL playoff game, additional overtime periods are played, as needed, to determine a winner.
The sudden death overtime rules call for a 15 minute period to follow the end of regulation. The first team to score wins. During the regular season, if after the end of the overtime period, no team scores, the game is recorded as a tie.
Playoff games will continue with multiple overtime periods until somebody does end up scoring. At the end of regulation time the referee will immediately toss a coin at the center of the field in accordance with the rules pertaining to the usual pregame toss. Unfortunately, the key to the game often rests on the flip of the coin.
There has been a public clamor to change the rules of the overtime for the longest time because of the problems the teams face. Some of the problems with the current system include; only three, or in rare cases, two points are required to win the game and the team that loses the toss, may never even touch it in the overtime period.
The team who wins the coin toss can elect to receive or kick away the ball. The teams that elect to receive usually go on to win, but not always. According to NFL stats, 60 percent of the games are won by the team that wins the toss, a very decisive advantage.
The NFL should seriously consider other options that…
Brian Westbrook released by the Eagles
Monday, March 1st, 2010
My my, teams are really letting some once great running backs go these last couple of days huh?
Brian Westbrook won’t be playing for them Eagles no more once the 2010 NFL football season gets here. Yes, just like LaDainian Tomlinson not playing for them Chargers anymore. You see, after two cases of concussions last season, the Eagles finally let him go, stirring up some rumors that he may just call it quits and walk away from football.
However, Brian Westbrook claims that is simply not the case. ”My plan is not to retire. My plan is to continue to play football,” he said in an interview with a local radio station in Philly. ”There’s 32 teams out there. Hopefully I’ll have an opportunity to go and play with another team.”
Yes, after two concussions that kept him out for a good portion of Philly’s last campaign in the NFL, Westbrook feels he can still play football and bang heads with guys like Jared Allen and Patrick Willis. And in case you’re wondering, no, he doesn’t have a death wish.
Westbrook, who thanked Philadelphia Eagles fans and coach Andy Reid for all their support, said his agent has already heard from three or four teams about his availability for 2010. Of course, we don’t know if those three or four teams play in the NFL. Hell, he may end up playing for some team in Canada for all we know.
Westbrook also said that he understood why the Eagles got rid of him the way they did.
”It’s hard for teams to keep veterans, especially aging veterans at a higher salary number, when they can get younger guys,” Brian Westbrook said. ”Especially when guys have battled injuries the way I have the last year and a half or so. I understand that. I completely do.”
As for the rest of the Eagles…
Indianapolis Colts to win Super Bowl 44
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Are you ready for the big game?
In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints will collide this Sunday in Miami, Florida where we’ll see which of these two teams will be crowned the Super Bowl XLIV champions.
Who will take the big one? Let’s look at the Indianapolis Colts, who have already recorded their most single-season wins in franchise history with 16. The quest will be a second Super Bowl title in a four-year span and since they’ll be playing in their fourth Super Bowl appearance in Miami, it seems the stage is set for the Colts to win their second Super Bowl title.
You see the last time Peyton Manning and his Colts were in Miami playing for the Super Bowl, they defeated the Chicago Bears 20-17. Manning was also the league MVP that season, the same as he is now coming to Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Florida.
That’s why the Colts should take this one easy.
Sure, the New Orleans Saints are as good as the Colts this season with both teams flirting with perfection all year to post the best win-loss record of their respective conferences. Both the Colts and the Saints also have Pro Bowl quarterbacks in Peyton Manning and Drew Brees respectively. That’s probably why Super Bowl XLIV will prove to be a high scoring affair.
However, while Drew Brees have become one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play football, he ain’t no Peyton Manning. Manning has been here before, leading the Colts to the playoffs every year since 2002 that includes a Super Bowl season back in 2007. A win in Miami Sunday will further solidify Manning as the very best to ever play quarterback in the NFL. Brees is good but Manning is simply just a notch better.
Manning was openly criticized for never…
Can the Saints win it for New Orleans?
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Let me just get this out of the way, if the Saints win the Super Bowl, then the celebration that’ll come after will be bigger than Mardi Gras.
And since Super Bowl XLIV will be their first ever trip to the Super Bowl for the New Orleans Saints, anything they celebrate from this point forward will be nothing compared to the way this city will celebrate if the Saints win the big game.
In case you didn’t get that, the New Orleans Saints are going to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. Hosting their first NFC championship game, the Saints defeated the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 to earn a trip to Miami.
They will play the Indianapolis Colts, a team that has a knack for playing and winning Super Bowl championships in Miami. Of course, for a city that has been able to overcome adversity, don’t expect the Colts’ history in Miami faze these Saints fans one bit.
Especially Drew Brees.
”Four years ago, they were hosing this roof,” as Saints coach Sean Payton put it, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ”This is pretty special for this city.”
The Saints went 20 years before they had their first winning season, and 33 years before winning a playoff game. Only the Detroit Lions, at 44 consecutive years, have missed more Super Bowls than the Saints.
Against the Vikings, it did look like the Saints were about to miss another trip too.
Faced with fourth and 1 from the Minnesota 43 in overtime, New Orleans opted to go for the first down. Tailback Pierre Thomas took the handoff and leapt into the air, not knowing where the Saints season might land.
When referees spotted the ball, the Saints…
Bodog’s Super Bowl XLIV Betting Props
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Bodog has posted some interesting betting propositions for the big game.
Just in case you didn’t know, Super Bowl XLIV is this Sunday in Miami, Florida where the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints play for all the marbles. It’s Peyton Manning going up against Drew Brees, Manning’s legacy against the city of New Orleans.
The Super Bowl match-up between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints should be one heckuva’ game. Hell, the conference championship games both teams played on a couple of weeks ago was one of the highest rated football games on TV already. Super Bowl XLIV should be off the chain.
Of course, before the Indianapolis Colts take on the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV, sportsbooks across the country have begun to post all kinds of betting options for you to bet on and our guys from Bodog are no different.
One of which has odds on the Super Bowl commercial that will feature Tim Tebow and his family. The 30-second commercial produced and paid for by Christian group Focus on the Family features the now former Florida Gators quarterback and his mother Pam and reportedly tells how Tebow would never have seen the light of day if his mother had heeded doctors’ warnings and had an abortion when she was pregnant with him.
Another one has bettors betting on which Super Bowl commercial will have a higher rating on USA Today’s annual Ad Meter. Bettors can bet on Budweiser, Go Daddy.com, Coke and Doritos, among others. I don’t think we’ll see those commercials that feature Peyton Manning before.
Ya’ll can also bet on the Super Bowl’s ratings…
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