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Sudden death overtime was approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [3] and remains in effect. [4] [5] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. [6] In 1974, the NFL adopted a 15-minute sudden-death overtime period for regular-season games; in 2017 it was cut to 10 minutes. The game ended as a tie if ...
The National Football League (NFL) introduced sudden-death overtime for any divisional tiebreak games beginning in 1940, and for championship games beginning in 1946. The first postseason game to be played under these rules was the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants (the "Greatest Game Ever Played").
Tie games were once frequent in the NFL, but have become increasingly uncommon due to a rule change in 1974 that extended the existing sudden-death overtime for post-season games into the regular season. [4] As a result, ties are most often the result of mishaps or mistakes from the teams involved.
Here's what to know about the overtime rules in the NFL playoffs: NFL playoff overtime rules. If the score is tied after regulation, there's another coin toss. Here's what the rules are: The ...
Now each team will get to possess the ball during overtime in the postseason — but only then. NFL owners approve new overtime rules, but for only the postseason Skip to main content
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In order to reduce the number of tie games, a single 15 minute sudden death overtime period was added to all preseason (through 2019, there was no exhibition season in the next) and regular season games (up to 2011; since 2017, 10). [3] If no team scored during this period, the game would result in a tie. [4]
As is customary in the offseason, the NFL has started to review some changes to the rule book ahead of the 2021 league year. Among the hotly contested topics will be debates about allowing replay ...