Change NFL Overtime? Yes We Can!

"The kick is up from Feely...and it's good! Jets win!"

Only Gus Johnson could make that truly exciting. Why should a game with such a great finish in regulation have to end it's overtime period with a boring field goal?

"Change" has been the theme of this most recent election season.  Now in this NFL season, change can begin.  Let's change NFL overtime.

I feel like Randy Moss deserves this. Moss hasn't ever been considered a team guy before the last year and a half, so as a football fan, to see him make a great diving catch with :01 left instead of heading to the locker room early is exhilarating. 

Why does that have to end with: snap, hold, kick, whoop-a-dee-doo?

I hate high school/college overtime. A socialist, each team gets a possession from the 25-yard line type of overtime should never have been enacted in the Bush presidency.  I guess you could say it was ahead of it's time.

Here's how to fix NFL overtime, and it's easy. Play to the first to score six points.

I'm a Cowboys fan, and even I admit that the Dallas/Arizona game that ended on a blocked punt returned for a touchdown in overtime was exciting (as exciting as getting your hand caught in farm equipment, but anyway). If the Cards had recovered it at the three and then kicked a field goal, would that finish be memorable?

Of course not. It would be routine (boring).

So, how about this scenario?  Last night, Jets get the ball and drive to the 16-yard line.  On 4th-and-2, do they kick the field goal for three of their six? Or do they try to pick up the first down because they don't want to give the ball back to New England at home, with momentum, and a Randy Moss TD away from taking first place in the division and the tie-breaker? 

Of course, they could just trade field goals, but if a team can drive to field goal range twice in overtime, then they are the better team.

Give me a six-point sudden death. Democracy, free enterprise, and the American way all demand it.  Yes we can!