Last week, Eli got introduced to his brand new teammate Daniel Jones.  We’ll see what the rest of the night has in store for them on Friday, but for now let’s enjoy the soundtrack of Eli’s tween years with the topic of “Kid Stuff”.  The Pick of the Week goes to Porky Prime with his selection of “Joystick” by The Dazz Band.

And now, on to the filler!  So I got tuned in to an idea for how to revise the NFL’s overtime rules and I’m starting to really dig it.  The simplest way to explain it is that if the game is tied when the clock hits 0:00 in the fourth quarter, only two things happen:

1.) The clock is reset to 15:00.

2.) The next team to score wins.

Basically, the idea is that you go right into sudden death without a kickoff or anything.  It changes the end-of-game dynamics, but in a few really fun ways.  The team that’s behind will still face the same pressure of getting the tying score before time runs out, but there will be an added incentive to try to take the lead with two point conversions and such (because the other team will be getting the ball back with a full clock if all they do is tie).  It completely ends the prospect of “playing for overtime” – you’ll no longer see a team take a knee on their own 25 yard line with thirty seconds left.  It gives a slight advantage to the team that last held the lead in regulation, which I think is fair because they earned it.

Anyhow, have it out in the comments and discuss the implications.