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Didactic
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...nals-overtime-rosenbloom-20160119-column.html
Sorry, but arguing for a guaranteed set of downs in overtime is just weak. It enables the best players in the world to avoid being responsible for playing defense at the most critical point of the game.
Let’s just give them juice boxes and participation trophies, OK? Best part is, the Bears proposed a rule change last year that would’ve guaranteed each team a possession in overtime no matter what, but the Packers, who lost to Seattle on the first possession last year the way they lost to Arizona last week, voted against it. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
But wait. There’s more Packers misery, and we always have room for more Packers misery.
Aaron Rodgers came off whining about the overtime coin flip.
Rodgers yelled that the coin didn’t flip and sounded mad later when he wasn’t given the chance to call it again.
But if there was no flip the way Rodgers screeched at the time, then there was no need for a new call by Rodgers.
And by the way, the coin did not have to be flipped again. According to the NFL, there is no rule requiring a coin to orbit. Referee Clete Blakeman could’ve gone with the result of the original flip/non-flip.
But if all of those events make the Packers sound whiny after getting lucky to even get to overtime, then it must be extra painful to have their season end that way. I’m good with that. Are you good with that? Show of hands of everybody who’s good with that.
But if the Packers want new overtime rules, here’s one:
No team that lost to the Bears is allowed to whine.