Football

Among the rule changes for this season was that the team winning the cointoss could defer their decision to the second half.  As I understand it, this means they kick the first half and then can optionally kick to start the second half as well.  While this would never happen, one of the articles describing this (I think the NFLs article) highlighted how the winner of the toss gets more options... 

So this begs the question... why?  There should be no advantage randomly assigned in an NFL game.  Compare to MLB.  Batting second is a pretty huge edge.  The home team bats second in all games.  Could you imagine if they tossed a coin to see which team bats first?  

The NFL should use the MLB standard.  The home team should always receive (or kick - it doesn't matter much which model is used) to start the game.  

I guess the only disadvantage is that it gets rid of ceremonial coin tosses.  

Will be posting some bridge stuff this week from the latest sectional.