(02-01-2022, 01:49 PM)RicoTx Wrote:

(02-01-2022, 01:14 PM)mikesez Wrote: You're absolutely wrong. You have decided in your own mind that becomes fair and stays fair as soon as the second team touches the ball. But that is incorrect. It might be fair while the second team has the ball, but it becomes unfair again once the first team gets the ball back. When one team has the ball more times than the other, that team has an advantage. If the advantage comes from luck, it is an unfair advantage. If the advantage comes from skill or strategy, it is a fair advantage.

As for your suggestions, the first two are non-athletic and subjective, so they don't belong in a sporting event, and even if they did, they would only create more controversy. The last one would actually work, even though contact is involved.  I'll do you one better. Each team brings out one lineman. The linemen face each other, one football length apart. The referee holds a football on a stick between them.  The ball is halfway between the 50 yard line and the 45 yard line and halfway between the hash marks.  The same football on a stick you see them using during d-line drills. The visiting team gets to decide if the referee stands with the stick to his right or to his left. Both linemen get in a two-point stance. When the ball moves, the linemen charge at each other.  If you go down, you lose. If you get called for holding, you lose.  If you step beyond the 5 yard line behind you, you lose. If you step beyond the hash marks, you lose. If you reach the other guy's 5 yard line, you win.  It's a gridiron version of sumo wrestling.
Ridiculous? Sure.  Better than a coin flip? Absolutely.  Want the ball first? Send our your strongest guy and get it.

Well then why don't we change regulation since it's quite possible that one team will have the ball more?  After all it's 'unfair' if one team has the ball more than the other...right?

You're suggestions...and 'logic', I might add...are ridiculous.