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Rare ties no reason to tweak regular-season OT

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Usually, two or three notes a week complaining about overtime pop up in my mailbag. They usually come after a team loses in overtime one possession after losing the coin toss. "Why doesn't the league assure each team a possession in overtime?'' is the standard question. "I hate the idea that a coin toss would decide a football game" is the summation. Well, I offer you Week 11's gruesome 13-13 tie between the Philadelphia Eagles and Cincinnati Bengals as a reminder why g ...

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