Coin toss
Clue me in, why does Cuba miss-calling the coin toss make a team lose?
shareExactly why I came here someone please explain
shareThe other team got the ball first and scored. In the old rules, the first team to score won. Now it's changed so that both teams get the ball. But he was wearing a black hat. The referee is the only official who wears a white hat. So he should not have been doing the coin toss.
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"The first team to score won"? What sport were they playing where that was a rule?!?
shareNFL football and I should elaborate;
at the time if a game ended up tied and went to overtime, the first team to score wins. They would flip a coin to see who would get the first possession.
This actually happened in real life, a player called heads but the referee thought he called tails. I believe in this film Cuba got the result of the flip wrong because he picked it up and put it away before he could remember the flip.
Thank you, that all makes perfect sense now!
shareNFL used to have sudden death overtones, which is ludicrous on a game where each team has to trade possession, as opposed to one like basketball or hockey where possession changes multiple times in as little as a minute.
So getting the coin toss call wrong could cost a team the entire game.
Oh, and the football game with the blown toss was a Pittsburgh Steelers game in 1998. http://www.sbnation.com/2009/11/26/1165932/11-26-1998-the-turkey-day-coin-flip
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