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The alarm went off for those fans that are hungry for some football news. The NFL just announced the rule changes for 2008.
There was a lot on the table to discuss. For starters, the NFL Playoffs seemed to include an awful controversy as some were proposing a change on the tradition of division winners having home field advantage on the first Playoffs game. The Playoffs reseeding would’ve been weird. Fortunately, most of the owners thought it was nonsense and left Playoffs just the way they are. I mean, if your football team finishes as Division leader and can’t even count on a home advantage, what’s the point?
But the changes that did kick in were the elimination of forceout on receptions, and the “coin toss power” that now will allow the coin-toss-winning team to defer its decision to the second half (just like in college). This rule will be a good one when it comes to strategy (and our betting strategy too): this gives the team another option to plan the game. Also, replay will be allowed to review field goals and extra points. This one will be really useful, I actually think how dumb not having it is.
There’s still a while left before seeing these new rules in practice, but at least we can have an idea of how our games will be from now on.
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