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Old Fri Feb 23, 2007, 10:13am
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Need help from the pros - Can the winner of the

coin toss defer to the 2nd half in the NFL ??? thanks
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Old Fri Feb 23, 2007, 10:40am
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I don't think "defer" is an option in the NFL.
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Old Fri Feb 23, 2007, 10:41am
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It is not an option in the NFL.
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Old Fri Feb 23, 2007, 10:45am
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Thanks, didn't think so but I wanted to get confirmation before I confront the loud mouths who insisted you could.
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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 02:15pm
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Thanks, didn't think so but I wanted to get confirmation before I confront the loud mouths who insisted you could.
Apparently, the "loudmouths" don't pay attention to the coin toss options the referee gives.

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Old Sat Feb 24, 2007, 08:17pm
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The Coin Toss Winner Has Two Choices ; Receive Or Defend A Goal. There Is No Deferral Option.
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Old Mon Feb 26, 2007, 01:52pm
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The third coin toss option of defering choice the the 2nd half does occur up here in the Great White North....think it's a metric thing....
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Old Mon Feb 26, 2007, 03:35pm
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The third coin toss option of defering choice the the 2nd half does occur up here in the Great White North....think it's a metric thing....
It's not really metric. They still have yards, but MORE of them! They can only count to 3 (for downs) but up to 12 (for players) and motion toward the LOS is allowed. They like FB but had to make a point that it would be different from U.S. FB.
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Old Sat Mar 03, 2007, 09:21pm
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It's not really metric. They still have yards, but MORE of them! They can only count to 3 (for downs) but up to 12 (for players) and motion toward the LOS is allowed. They like FB but had to make a point that it would be different from U.S. FB.
It's not that so much as that they kept some rules that were changed in USAn football, or if they changed them they changed them to a lesser degree. So a 4th down was added in USAn football only. USAn football reduced the number of players from 15 to 11 in one fell swoop; in Canadian football it was reduced from 15 to 14, then 12. Only USAn football shortened the distance between the goal lines from 110 to 100 yards. Only USAn football adopted restrictions on backfield motion.

Many of the changes in USAn football were also adopted in full by Canadian football, but later. A relatively tiny handful of significant rule differences were original to Canadian football.

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I once heard that the US uses a 100 yard field because at a game once at Harvard there was not enough real estate for the larger field, and this new format stuck.
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Old Wed Mar 07, 2007, 10:32pm
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The third coin toss option of defering choice the the 2nd half does occur up here in the Great White North....think it's a metric thing....
I've often wondered why the CFL didn't use "meter (metre?)" lines. That field is so big anyway, what's a little more?

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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 10:50am
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I've often wondered why the CFL didn't use "meter (metre?)" lines. That field is so big anyway, what's a little more?

We do have an option for metres. 100 of them. We prefer 110 yards.

100 metres = 109.361 329 834 yards

110 yards = 100.584 metres
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Old Thu Mar 08, 2007, 03:56pm
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I've often wondered why the CFL didn't use "meter (metre?)" lines. That field is so big anyway, what's a little more?

Remember that American & Canadian football ultimately derive from soccer, which was developed in England, which naturally used English units (yards) to measure their fields.
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Old Sun Mar 11, 2007, 04:23pm
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Remember that American & Canadian football ultimately derive from soccer,
Nope, sorry. I can go into more detail if you'd like, but the short story is that the only thing those games have in common is that they derive from England and/or Wales and are called "football".

Football Canada does have optional metre rules, but the CFL doesn't. Some CIAU and other amateur games were played under such rules in the 1970s, but they didn't catch on. Around that time Rugby Union switched to "metric", and later Rugby League.

I don't see the point. It's got to have an effect on play when you need 10 m to get a first down, your kickoff has to go forward 10 m, etc.; it's about an extra yard. It's not as if there needs to be conformity between a game field and the outside world; heck, they can use furlongs etc. And if they wanted to express things in meters, why didn't they make it 9 m, which is much closer to 10 yds.?

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Old Mon Feb 26, 2007, 03:22pm
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The Coin Toss Winner Has Two Choices ; Receive Or Defend A Goal. There Is No Deferral Option.
They have 3 choices: receive; kick, defend a goal.
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