Dan Says

Imagine that a team has been down the whole game and battled back to tie things up. Or maybe the game has been close the whole time and it’s heading into overtime. Both teams are excited; so are the fans. You’re expecting to see two teams play the game of their lives in overtime to win the game. Then one team wins the coin toss, has one mediocre play and kicks a field goal. The game is over. Wow, that was terrible.
NFL overtime sucks. Let’s face it. You’ll have a hard time finding someone who actually likes the NFL overtime system.

The slight majority of the time, the team that wins the coin toss wins the game. That means that more often than not, you’re putting your fate in your ability to guess the result of a coin toss (tails never fails, by the way).

But the remaining times it doesn’t happen on the first possession. Sometimes you get to see two or three mediocre possessions and then someone kicks a field goal to win. Terrible. Just terrible.

There are three ways that the NFL can change their overtime to make it better:
1) No field goals
Make it so that you have to get a touchdown to win the game. Field goals are for quitters.
2) College style overtime
This is really the best option. Each team starts in their opponent’s territory. The first team gets a possession of the football and then the second team gets a possession of the football to try to match their opponent's score to keep the overtime going, or better the score to win it. If they don’t at least match the score, they lose. Each team gets an equal opportunity to win. You aren’t basing winning off the luck of the coin toss and it isn’t gimmicky like the NHL’s shootout. The team that wins deserves to win.
3) Flip a coin
Seriously, this would be better than the current system. More often than not it comes down to this anyways, so just end it there. Save me the disappointment of having to see a field goal.