A proposal for new NFL overtime rules

Assuming that the recent changes to NFL overtime rules are intended to prevent the coin toss from being the primary factor in a team's victory, and personally not liking the new rules, I propose a different set of scoring and victory rules that I call the Challenge-Response model.

• The visiting team gets the ball first.
• The game ends immediately if there is a difference in score after the end of a home team drive or a defensive scoring play.
• No extra points.

How this will play out:

The visiting team is given the first chance to score, and then the home team is given a chance to respond in kind. If they cannot, they lose. If they do better, they win. If they match the visitors' performance, the game continues in the same manner until time expires.

Removing the extra point attempt will avoid bad feelings of players and fans feeling cheated if they got 7 points and the other team went for the two point conversion. It will also speed up gameplay a little.

The average overtime session will go on longer, and there will be more tied games.

There will be more fourth-and-long situations because the home team is forced to try to advance on fourth down if it is behind.

There will be situations where the visiting team runs out the clock before kicking a field goal to give the home team insufficient time to respond, but that's already a part of the regular game.