| Colts President Bill Polian Changes His Mind On OT Policy | | |
Colts president Bill Polian, entering his 13th season as the Colts' president, said while he entered the off-season opposed to a change in the league's post-season overtime rule, he enters the league's Annual Meetings this week in favor of the Competition Committee's so-called “First to 6” proposal.” Polian, a member of the competition committee, told reporters at the meetings in Orlando, Fla., Sunday that while sudden death was once an equitable way of deciding overtime, the fact that since 1993 the receiving team has won nearly 60 percent of games is enough of a statistic to merit change. “No matter where you came down on the subject, whether you were a pure two-possession guy or a status quo guy – as I was going in – when you saw the statistics broken down from 1994-2009, and you saw the team winning the toss winning 60 percent of the time, and then you saw the accuracy of field-goal kickers, both in distance and accuracy over that period of time, it’s obvious that it’s game that from 1994 on is very different than what we had prior to 1994,” he said. “(Before that), essentially, there was no difference between team winning the toss and losing it.”
Source: John Oesher, IndyFootballReport.com
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