Seahawks Coin Toss: Fair? (Take Our Poll)
Yesterday, at the end of the fourth quarter, the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos were tied. That triggered overtime. The referee tossed a coin, Denver's quarterback called tails and it was heads. So Seattle got the ball, scored a touchdown -- and the game was over.
That’s it.
Denver never got the ball, never got a chance to score.
That is stupid, argues the Denver Post. “The winner of a classic football game should never be determined by pure, dumb luck,” writes the losing team's hometown paper.
Seattle fans might have agreed -- if that coin toss had gone the other way.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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