(02-02-2022, 11:54 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(02-01-2022, 05:58 PM)mikesez Wrote: The NFLPA won't go for that because it would be too easy for the teams to match each other score for score and make the game go on and on indefinitely. 

If you don't like sudden death, how about:
Each team gets 1 possession.  If the game is still tied after 1 possession each, go to field goals.  Each team attempts a 50 yarder.  If they both make it, they both try again from 55.  If they both miss, they both try again from 45.  Keep going until one makes it and one misses.  The NFLPA might go for that, though it is more contact than they have now.

Me, I like sudden death.  I just want a fair-er way to determine who gets the ball first.

How do you handle one team taking 9 minutes off the clock to score on their possession? Does the other team only get the remaining clock to score, or continue second OT so long as the possession continues?

So you're saying your ideal postseason outcome would look like this:
One possession by each team, even matched (whether that's 3 and outs, stalled drives, field goals or TD)
both kickers hit 50-yard tries
both kickers miss 55-yard tries
both kickers miss 50-yard tries
both kickers hit 45-yard tries
one kicker makes 50-yard try, other does not.

Do you not see how boring that would be as a spectator, player (non-special teams edition), or coach? And you still have to determine who kicks first each round, do you just give that to the visitor? Is that fair?
Strategy is gone. Your best players are not on the field making plays. The game becomes an exhausting repetition of boring kicks, and negates the entirety of the effort that led to the stalemate.

My ideal is keep sudden death.  Keep the possibility that one team doesn't get to touch the ball.  Just have some sort of fair, quick, minimal contact, skills based way to decide who goes first.  It could be as simple as a footrace.  It could be as complicated as a rugby scrum. Fans want it to be in the hands of the QB, so it could be a simple pass attempt with one receiver against one defensive back, one chance, longest completion wins. Anything that at least one player on each team can do while in full pads.

Any scenario that guarantees a certain number of possessions or chances to score, like college OT, probably doesn't have a game clock at all, just a play clock.  I agree that ending it on long kicks would be less exciting than, say, ending it on repeated 2-point conversion attempts, but we have to minimize contact too.  But in general I don't like these scenarios as much

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