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Playoffs? Well, a fan can dream, right?
An NFL spokesman is telling the Associated Press that the league could change its overtime format for playoff games at a meeting next month.
And it would work like this:
Both teams would get the ball at least once unless the first team to get the ball scores a touchdown, Greg Aiello told AP. If the first team to get the ball makes a field goal and the other team ties the game, action would continue until a team scores again.
Under the current “sudden death” rules, of course, the first team to score wins.
A vote could take place next month. At least two thirds of the teams would need to agree, the AP reported.
Whining about the overtime rules became fashionable after the NFC championship game, when New Orleans beat Minnesota 31-28 in OT to go to the Super Bowl and Brett Favre’s Vikings never saw the ball.
What do the Browns have to do with any of this? Well, they are in the league and maybe someday soon they’ll qualify for the playoffs again. Bad teams become good. It happens. Look at the Saints.
Toward that end, I found it mildly encouraging to hear new team president Mike Holmgren say he wants to get the team turned around soon and this isn’t going to be some kind of five-year rebuild.
Maybe Holmgren actually does have an impact free agent or two in mind and the team won’t be relying entirely on the crapshoot draft.
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By sad
February 28, 2010 12:34 AM | Link to this
I am a old time browns fan. I left ohio in 1965 and became a redskin fan. The browns have been really bad for years. I had the honor of watching the great browns teams from from55 to 65.It starts at the top. The great Paul Brown went to the bengals. I hope Holgram can do the job.
By the truth
March 15, 2010 10:12 PM | Link to this
Oh yeah it might be a dream now but we going to to make everybody wake up & smell the coffee a true brown fan