(01-27-2022, 10:37 AM)wassy04 Wrote: I read a suggestion on another comments thread, that rather than do a coin toss you could give possession to the home team. Would add marginally to home field advantage and reward the better regular season team in the playoffs. Would also have all the benefits listed above of teams knowing what they need etc.

The only minor issue would be the Super Bowl but you could still do it on regular season record and if that's tied, I'm sure there's tie breakers that could be brought in.

That is how they do it in baseball.  I think home teams have enough advantages already.  Unless we're going to adopt college overtime rules which eliminate the advantage of going first, I'd really like to see who goes first decided by a quick athletic competition.  "Who can kick the farthest" seems like the quickest and most football-like contest to me.  Or you could stage some sort of sumo-like contest between two linemen.  Treat both men as ball carriers, first to be ruled "down" or "holding" loses.

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