Some called it the “worst rule in sports,” while others jokingly called on US President Joe Biden to step in and fix the rules.

While Allen was lenient about the current overtime rules shortly after the fiasco, it raised the question: Should they be changed to give both teams a chance to score?

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According to NFL rules, in 10-minute overtime: “Each team must have or have the opportunity to have the ball. Exception: If the first team to have the ball makes a touchdown on opening possession.”

Essentially, if the receiving team does not score a touchdown on the first possession (or if the kicking team does not score a touchdown on a turnover), the game continues.

The current system has been in place since the 2011 playoffs.

These rules are different from those of college football. Arguably fairer than the NFL’s rules.

In college football, each team—regardless of who wins the overtime coin toss—has a chance to attack from the opposing team’s 25-yard line in the first overtime.

Whereas in the NFL the team wants to win the coin toss and win the game on the first inquiries, in college games the team that wins the coin toss usually decides to defend first because they will know if the opponent is a touchdown, shot Score or fail to score. Based on this, the second-placed team can choose to be more or less aggressive when attacking.

According to Rick Wilson, a professor at Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business, there were nearly 300 overtime games from 2013 to 2021, through a study of some box scores in Sports Reference. Involves the Division I Football Bowl subdivision teams.

Since 2013, the second team to get the ball has a 49.7 percent chance of winning, or about a 50 percent chance of being right.

While the NFL is unlikely to make changes after a game, the wheels of the movement may have been set in motion.

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While Allen didn’t immediately express disappointment with the overtime rule, there was no shortage of players past and present in his absence.

“If you’re still arguing that it’s not in everyone’s best interest to have both Mahomes and Allen in (overtime) in a game like this, I don’t know what to tell you,” he tweeted. said.

“In a game where neither side can stop the other in the end, the toss of a coin determines the outcome.”

“In that situation, facing such an amazing offense, really out of control, with no rebuttal or retaliation – that’s kind of bad.”

The proposal reportedly didn’t have enough support and was abandoned, but if it had… the future could be very different.