Mark from Bettendorf, IA
Vic, now the coin must flip or it’s a do-over. Can we expect coaches to challenge that?
When I started covering the NFL, the coin toss was performed in the hallway that joined the teams’ locker rooms. There was no option to defer. We were informed in the press box prior to kickoff which team had won the toss and who would receive the opening kickoff. Then, in 1976 (I think), that changed when the NFL made the coin toss ceremonial, and Jack Lambert said a bad word and made everybody in the stadium laugh.