Coin toss or coin flip?

[Dakota]

Have you ever done what the ref did at the coin toss for the overtime of the Cardinals/Packers game? (i.e. for those who don't give a rat's a$$ about the NFL, have a coin not flip at all but just go up and come back down flat.)

If so, what did you do? If not, what would you do?

[Rich]

I don't launch the coin with my thumb - I hold it between my thumb and fingers and spin it as I toss it....so I know it's going to flip.

[Matt-MI]

Had it happen to me in a Pop Warner game about twelve years ago. I was the WH but I didn't toss the coin. The town had two separate organizations in the league and they were playing against each other. They were trying it into make a big show for the community on the schools brand new turf field. The newly elected District Court judge tossed the coin for us and it was just like what happened. Straight up, straight down and didn't bounce. I just went with what was facing up. Nobody complained.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I was the PU in a pool play game during the AAU Boys' Baseball National Tournament many years ago where a number of games had already been played that day on this particular diamond. The soil around HP, even though it had been raked was very soft and when I flipped the coin, the coin landed on edge in the soft soil, . I flipped it again but gave the calling team the chance to recall it again.

MTD, Sr.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I was the PU in a pool play game during the AAU Boys' Baseball National Tournament many years ago where a number of games had already been played that day on this particular diamond. The soil around HP, even though it had been raked was very soft and when I flipped the coin, the coin landed on edge in the soft soil, . I flipped it again but gave the calling team the chance to recall it again.

MTD, Sr.

Did they call "edge" the first time? No? They lost the toss, then.

[3afan]

Its certainly not a big deal. Just pick it up, state that it didn't flip as you had intended, and do it again.
And probably 97% of us has had it happen in some way at some point.