Now that footbnall season is over, there’s someting the National Football league should chew on in the offseason. There have been rules in the NFL that have irked just about everybody who is a fan. But one rule absolutely drives me crazy: the overtime rule.

Whenever a game is tied at the end of four quarters, we enter the overtime period. Just like at the start of regulation time, both teams send their captains to the 50-yard line for the coin flip to see who gets the pigskin first. Unlike the start of the game, the winner of the overtime coin toss has an unfair advantage to winning the game. Because of the sudden-death format, a majority of teams that win the coin toss go on to win the game in one drive down the field.

I believe that in order to fix this broken system, they need to adopt a change that guarantees both teams at least a shot at the end zone. This system works in college football because it gives both teams a chance to score. In some games, one team had to slowly claw it’s way back into the hard-fought grudge match and we cannot let a coin toss determine their fate. One coin toss cannot and should not erase the determination and toil of that one team that made an improbable comeback. As football fans, we should not sit in the stands as the winner of the game is determined by a simple coin toss.

We can even further the argument and suggest that, to keep tradition in the NFL, we just add the sudden-death portion after both teams have had a possession and they play until there is a winner.

There are many rules out there that simply do not make sense. But let’s not let one of these rules ultimately determine the outcome of a game. The NFL needs to adopt a new overtime policy that sees both teams having at least one possession before entering a sudden-death match as well as playing until there is a winner.

There are fair ways to go about winning a game. This isn’t hockey. There are winners and losers. Let’s not leave it up to the luck of a coin.