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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yahoo Top 10, Week 3: How far does Colorado drop after shaky overtime win over Colorado State?  Yahoo Sports Source link

Roger Goodell, the National Football League’s commissioner, flew to Sun Valley, Idaho, this summer for Allen & Company’s annual media conference, confident that the N.F.L. was close to announcing its latest blockbuster TV rights deal. “We will probably have some decision by the fall,” he told CNBC at the time. But nearly five months later, the league is still looking for a technology or media company willing to replace DirecTV as the rights holder for Sunday Ticket, which allows fans… Source link

In the wake of arguably the most thrilling divisional-round playoff game in NFL history, social media was filled with fans advocating for another change to league overtime rules. On Monday morning it was more of the same, with fellow sports media folk I respect — including my Georgia peach of a colleague, Jay Busbee — posting links to stories they’d written declaring it was time for more tweaks. As much as I respect all of them, they are wrong. The NFL overtime rules, as they are, work just… Source link

The greatest game in NFL history turned on a coin flip. Fine, you can question whether Sunday night’s divisional showdown between victorious Kansas City and heartbroken Buffalo was one of the greatest ever. Good luck finding another one with 25 points scored on four different successful all-or-nothing, score-or-go-home drives in the final two minutes. But this is indisputable: the NFL’s overtime gives an enormous advantage to whichever team wins the coin flip. Three years ago, Chiefs fans… Source link

At about 2:30 p.m. PT, it looked like the San Francisco 49ers‘ season was dying. It was back on life support at a little bit before 4 p.m. too.  Somehow, the 49ers made it to the postseason. They came back from a 17-0 deficit against the Los Angeles Rams to tie it. Jimmy Garoppolo overcame a bad fourth-quarter interception to lead an enormous 88-yard touchdown drive to tie it with 26 seconds left. Then in overtime, Garoppolo led a field-goal drive to take the lead and rookie cornerback Ambry… Source link

  Yahoo Fantasy held its inaugural Yahoo Fantasy Football Championship on Sunday, bringing together the top fantasy players in the country at MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino to compete for $200K in cash prizes. The first ever Yahoo Fantasy live final didn’t disappoint, with the DFS contest going down to the wire. Ultimately, the overtime period in the 49ers-Bengals tilt proved to be the difference. Barath Seshadri won the event by 2.48 points, taking home the $100K grand prize and being… Source link

  Yahoo Fantasy held its inaugural Yahoo Fantasy Football Championship on Sunday, bringing together the top fantasy players in the country at MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino to compete for $200K in cash prizes. The first ever Yahoo Fantasy live final didn’t disappoint, with the DFS contest going down to the wire. Ultimately, the overtime period in the 49ers-Bengals tilt proved to be the difference. Barath Seshadri won the event by 2.48 points, taking home the $100K grand prize and being… Source link

The Gettysburg Address is 277 words, and finds elemental, eternal truths from the most complex of human endeavors. The NFL’s overtime rules run more than four times as long, 1120 words, and turn the simplest dang thing possible — how to figure out who wins a football game — into a bewildering array of directives and sub-articles so complicated that the IRS nods its approval. Put it this way: when you’ve got different sets of rules for regular season and playoffs — or when you have to… Source link