NFL changes overtime for playoff gamesBARRY WILNER
Beginning this season, if the team possessing the ball first in overtime scores a touchdown on that series, the opponent still gets a possession. In recent seasons, that touchdown would have ended the game.
Beginning this season, if the team possessing the ball first in overtime scores a touchdown on that series, the opponent still gets a possession. In recent seasons, that touchdown would have ended the game.
A divisional playoff matchup between Miami and K.C. on Christmas Day 1971 holds the record, ending in double overtime after 82 minutes and 40 seconds, per The Athletic. What's more, only six playoff games in NFL playoff history have required multiple overtimes, with the most rece...
But in 2012, the league expanded the overtime rule for all NFL games. According to FOX Sports, since the new overtime format in 2012, 10 out of 11 NFL teams who won the coin toss in overtime and gained the first possession won their playoff game. 2012 AFC Wild Card Playoff...
But in 2012, the league expanded the overtime rule for all NFL games. According to FOX Sports, since the new overtime format in 2012, 10 out of 11 NFL teams who won the coin toss in overtime and gained the first possession won their playoff game. 2012 AFC Wild Card Playoff game...
What are the overtime rules for NFL playoff games? The bulk of theNFL’s playoff overtime ruleswere implemented in 2010, with one change approved by the league’s competition committee last spring that allows for both teams to possess the ball at least once before a winner can ...
NEW YORK (AP)- Every NFL playoff game will be streamed live online for the first time. The league said Thursday that CBS and Fox would be providing live streams of their broadcasts this season. The Super Bowl and NBC's wild-card games were available online the last two seasons. ...
end Travis Kelce in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown in Sunday's AFC Divisional Round playoff game, clinching a 42-36 win for the Chiefs over the Buffalo Bills, the social media debate began as to where the game ranks among the NFL's all-time great playoff games...
"Our record-breaking viewership is driven by the incredible play on the field that only the NFL postseason can deliver and presented by the best media partners in the business," said Hans Schroeder, executive vice president of media distribution with the NFL. "All eyes now turn to Las Vegas...