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Originally posted by yankeesfan
can someone help me to understand why they have "defend a goal" as an option in a coin toss situation. lets say the visitors win the coin toss and elect to defend a goal, the home team will get the ball. lets say the visitors elect defense, the home team gets the ball and then the visitors get to pick what goal they want to defend. now in the second half if the home team takes offense, the visitors get to pick what goal they want to defend again. it works out the same in both situations. i believe defending the goal is no different that just saying we want defense. why have that option of defending a goal if you win the coin toss in the rules? what am i missing. i feel it is useless? maybe i am missing something. if someone can clarify for me i would appreciate it.
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You are incorrect. If the visitors select to go on defense (actually kickoff) the home team gets to choose the goal to defend. You say that the home will choose to take the ball. That choice has already been made when the visitors elected to kickoff. The home team will choose which goal to defend. In your example, the visitors got both choices & the home team got none.
These are two very distinct choices. If there is wind or sun that makes one direction more desirable over the other the team may want to choose the direction to go, making the choice of goal more important than being on offense or defense.
[Edited by STEVED21 on Oct 7th, 2004 at 08:30 AM]