Tremendous Bowl LVIII between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs went into extra time, testing the brand new rule authorized by the league two years in the past.
Underneath the outdated guidelines adopted in 2010, if the crew that possessed the ball first in extra time scored a landing on that drive, it received the sport. The opposite offense by no means received an opportunity to even take the sphere.
Then again, if the crew possessing the ball first kicked a subject aim, the opposite crew received an opportunity to win the sport with a landing or tie it with a subject aim. At that time, the sport turns into a sudden-death situation.
The playoff extra time guidelines authorized in 2022 assured every crew a possession. If the crew that possesses the ball first doesn’t rating a landing, or if the rating is tied after every crew has had a possession, then sudden loss of life units in, and the following rating wins the sport.
Former New York Giants nice Tiki Barber believes the extra time guidelines within the postseason are nonsense, claiming they make the clock irrelevant.
Tiki goes off on the “absolute nonsense” of the NFL’s new playoff extra time guidelines: pic.twitter.com/BtH8tL4brm
— WFAN Sports activities Radio (@WFAN660) February 12, 2024
“The brand new NFL extra time rule within the playoffs is nonsense. It’s absolute nonsense. To make a clock imply nothing is nonsense,” Barber stated Monday on WFAN. “The clock has to finish the sport. I perceive why they do it this fashion since you wish to be honest. But it surely takes all urgency out of soccer.
“I hate that. Soccer, in my thoughts, is competing in opposition to an opponent. But it surely’s additionally competing in opposition to these forces that constrain you. It’s the sphere, it’s the officers, and it’s the clock. And extra time within the NFL playoffs, they’ve neutered the clock, and it is senseless to me.”
I perceive his level, however take into account, it’s the postseason. The sport wants to provide a winner. Within the outdated days (assume the 1958 NFL Championship between the Giants and Baltimore Colts) it was a real sudden-death affair — first crew to attain wins.
The clock ticked, however it clearly was irrelevant when it got here to urgency as Tiki was intimating. Isn’t that principally nonetheless the case? The one distinction between 1958 and in the present day is that each groups get a shot because the clock ticks within the background, albeit pointlessly.
