It has been two days now since the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers game ended in a 40-40 tie.
It was the second-highest-scoring tie in NFL history and the first time ever that a game ended with that exact final score.
The only tie game to see more points in league history was a 43-43 draw between the Oakland Raiders and Boston Patriots on Oct. 16, 1964.
With that said, the NFL regular season is the only major sport out of the four; MLB, NBA and the NHL all make sure someone has a winner and a loser even in the regular season.
As good as that game was, someone needed to be on the losing and winning end of it, and these guys work way to hard for them to just pack it up and go home without having one result or the other.
GB 40 – DAL 40
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Time For A Change?
I am not a huge fan of the college rule where you just go for two until someone wins, etc.
I am not making this post to try and tell them how to change it, I just think someone should always win and lose in a major sport like the NFL, just like the three major sports.
Head Coach of the Chiefs, Andy Reid, had a few words about it:
“Nobody wants a tie, I don’t think, but that’s what goes on,” Reid said. “You’re juggling a lot of different things when you do this. You’ve got TV and how that works — and the media is a big part of it — and then you’ve got time restrictions, so on and so forth, (that) these guys all have to look at that.
Before the 2025 season, the both-teams-possess rule only existed in the postseason. It now applies in the regular season, too. But in a 10-minute period, that can make finding a victory tricky.
In the last decade, 18 teams have finished a regular season game with a tie. Of those 18 teams, only three of them reached the postseason and advanced no further than the divisional round.
At the end of the day, these games do not end in a tie that much, so when it happens, we all want to have it changed, and that is the issue.
They do not happen enough to where I think the NFL front office does anything about it. They may vote on it next offseason if this tie messes with the playoff seeding, but hard to see that being the case.
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s no! keep it the way it is
Player safety is key and you can’t just play football on and on like baseball. Colleges simply could care less about player safety as the games now last 4 hours and can go to infinite overtime. Game over.
As good as DP played, but still, having 1st and goal from INSIDE the 5-yard line, that should have been a TD somehow. Then NO tie!
I do agree with that, but the Packers also would not have played that last drive so conservative and would have 100% scored a touchdown, and honestly probably would have went for two lol
I didn’t care much about the tie situation until the Cowboys got stuck in a tie game!! And now that I know how it feels to watch my team end a game in a tie, especially when the game was as good as ours was, I don’t like it!! I think they need to make some changes!! They only have a 10 minute overtime, which is stupid by itself, since the 4 other quarters are all 15 minutes long, so overtime should be 15 minutes too!! And if that was the case then we would have had one more chance to win the game, but since they only have 10 minutes, time ran out just in time for Green Bay to tie it up!! So they should make overtime a 15 minute time period just like they have in regulation!! And if they don’t wanna do that then they can do a sudden death type of thing, where if they’re tied at the end of overtime, then the next team to score wins the game!! So when time ran out against Green Bay, and if they did this idea, after Green Bay tied it when time ran out, they would just let the time go and kick it off to us and keep going until the next team scores!! Which is about the same as it was before they made the rule that both teams would get a chance to possess the ball in overtime, but the only difference with this is that they would just pretty much extend the time in overtime and keep going until the next team scores!! Or they can just give us a 2nd overtime and then in that round the first team to score wins!! Either way, they need to fix it!! Ending a game in a tie is stupid!! And it just ruins games, especially when the game was as high scoring and as good as the game was against Green Bay!! So I think they need to make sure there’s a guaranteed winner in every game, and idc how they do it as long as it’s not some stupid coin flip or something like that, that decides the winner!! Any of the options I mentioned would be good to me!! But that’s just my opinion!!