![]() I don't know if I would have done that, but they obviously know what they are doing," Stuursma said. We run these scenarios a lot with our staff. I think it is hard to tell a guy not to score a touchdown. "The NFL stands for the National Field Goal League. Here is Hope College football coach Peter Stuursma's take: This ending completely took away the thrill of a would-be thrilling Super Bowl for me, and while I might be in the minority on this view, I am sure I am not alone. I am not watching football to see teams play it safe, which again in my opinion, isn't safe at all. That would still just tie the game, which is where we were when the Chiefs purposefully did not run into the end zone.Īll of that running to the middle of the field, taking a knee and playing it safe takes away the thrill of a Super Bowl winning touchdown. The worst that could happen would be the Eagles somehow got down the field and scored a touchdown in the final 1:36.īUT that would ONLY TIE the game again, assuming the team doesn't go for two (and as we are seeing from the way teams handle the final minutes, most teams aren't making that call), and that is also assuming the Eagles kicker makes the extra point with all the pressure in the world on his shoulders. I'd take the touchdown with 1:36 to go and a seven-point lead. This go-by-the-book feel on how to handle the final minutes of games is making the game boring, and for all the times it works, the one time it doesn't, it could have cost the Chiefs the Super Bowl. Subscribe: Get complete Hope College and local sports coverage with this special offer I find football harder and harder to watch with all of the replay, what actually constittues a catch, and teams killing time for field goals in the final seconds. The most exciting Super Bowl coming down to the last second and a player actually took a knee instead of scoring the game-winning touchdown.Īgain, what if they fumbled the next play? I believe we are to the point where most teams would have done the same thing, to the critique is of the NFL and the sport of football. Now, this is not a critique of Andy Reid and the Chiefs. It would have been one of the worst last-minute flops in the history of sports. ![]() What if the Eagles returned the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown (stranger things have happened) and stunned them that way since Kansas City opted for a field goal instead of a touchdown. In this instance it all worked out and the Chiefs kicked the field goal.īut there was still time on the clock, albeit a small margin. That is all without the pressure of a Super Bowl on the line. That is an awful lot of times where teams thought they could get some points (yes some were longer and more of a risk), but instead came away with nothing. The Chiefs missed eight field goals this season, the second most misses in the NFL, which saw a total of 159 missed field goals this season. This one was close enough to be an extra point (even closer) and 64 extra point attempts were missed by NFL kickers this year. You laugh, but in the College Football Playoff, when the officials overturned a Michigan touchdown and put the ball inside the 1-yard line, the Wolverines fumbled on the next play instead of scoring and it cost them a shot at the national championship game.Īlso, why put all the pressure in the world on a kicker, especially a kicker who missed one earlier? Yes kickers are professionals and most do a great job most of the time, but on an NFL field with the entire world watching, so many things can go wrong between the snap, the hold, the laces and the kick. In a tie game, instead of scoring a go-ahead touchdown, the Chiefs ran a couple more plays then kicked a field goal that was basically an extra point to win the game at the end.īut what if they fumbled one of those couple of plays in between? This is perhaps the thing about football I hate the most. I mean when the game was tied and Kansas City purposefully DID NOT score a touchdown in order to run more time off the clock and kick a field goal. One of the greatest games in Super Bowl history ended in the most anticlimactic way.
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