The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys played 70 minutes of NFL football on Sunday night, resulting in a 40-40 tie.
But in the aftermath of Micah Parsons’ return to Dallas (after being abruptly traded in August), there are still more questions than answers following that “Sunday Night Football” thriller that ended in a anticlimactic draw. The league’s tweaked overtime rule for the regular season, which is now similar to the postseason rule, has stirred up some emotions.
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In the offseason, the NFL made a change to the regular-season overtime rule, allowing both teams to have an offensive possession regardless of whether the first team scores a touchdown. Previously, if the team who received the ball first in overtime scored a touchdown, then the game was over at that point. That version of the overtime rule was implemented in 2010, doing away with the sudden-death overtime rule that had been in place since 1974.
Overtime was first introduced then, when the NFL added a fifth 15-minute quarter with the first team to score winning the game. If the opposing teams played all four regulation quarters and the overtime quarter and remained tied, only then would the game end in a tie.
Sudden-death overtime in the NFL was the norm until a rule change (or tweak) in 2010 when the league then changed it to where an opening possession touchdown in overtime would end the game immediately. In 2017, the NFL tweaked overtime once again by shortening the period from 15 to 10 minutes.
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Then just a few years ago in 2022, the league changed the playoff rule that allowed both teams a possession on offense even if the first team scored a touchdown on its initial possession. Now this is the standard overtime rule for the regular and postseason, with the playoffs requiring a tied game to continue with an additional 15-minute period until a team scores to win the game.
The Sunday night game between the Packers and Cowboys was only the fifth time since the overtime rule change in 2010 that a game ended in a tie following field goals by both teams.
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