What’s the first part: the player DECIDED the game. HE committed the penalty. It’s different than a blown call. Both penalties were bad plays by the players. The game is absolutely for the fans, but this is also a business in America where you can’t make a workplace environment that knowingly puts employees in danger. That’s a big reason why the rule is a shootout! It’s a compromise of fast, fair, great regulation game. It’s not the best overtime but it’s one we can predict how long it will likely go. When we came up with the rules we HAD to make sure the game was not more dangerous than a typical professional football game, which is why OT is shortened. We also had to make sure the window was in 3 hours. We were likely to be booted to another show if we did not hit our 3 hour window. If that has changed go for the change! The fairest OT idea came from coach Harbaugh and it was just play a 5th quarter. Don’t stop the game and do a coin toss, do sudden death from that point. It’s fair, likely fast, but it ruins a 4th quarter 2 minute drill in a tie game. You would rather hold onto the ball and get to 0:00 then actually go and score. But to the original point, the players committed penalties! These aren’t blown calls. That’s the problem I am seeing, fans are used to blown calls and saying “but the refs decided it”. No both plays the db attacked the WR which led to them getting flagged. You also notice how the play takes place at the 5, that’s a 30% chance to score, ITS HARD! That’s why the rules are more restrictive for the defense. Also if you commit a live ball penalty at all on offense you lose the try!

The rule is good, if you do single play possessions for OT you have to make it so teams aren’t influenced to always commit a penalty. Rewarding the ball to the 1 is not enough. Because a fan base is upset don’t change the rule. Analyze it and think about it