Football Overtime and CBS sunday scheduling

Since it seems impossible to arrive at a fair overtime situation in football that doesn't involve playing an entire quarter, why not allow regular season games which are tied at the end of regulation be scored as a tie?  That would generate a great deal more interesting playoff scenarios and end of game decisions.  Now in the playoffs, just play an extra quarter.

On a tangentially related note, I was disappointed that tonights CBS late game, Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore failed to go into overtime.  You see, CBS airs 60 minutes at the end of the game and all the rest of their sunday programming after that.  Well tonight, the season finale of Survivor was on CBS, and I bet there were a lot of people out there who record it who don't watch football and don't know to record the two hours after the program just to make sure they get it all (Amazing race fans have learned this lesson the hard way already).  An overtime would have made it so that even if you were recording the hour of reuinion show after Survivor you wouldn't have got the winner.  

CBS would have gotten many, many well deserved complaints and just maybe instituted a meaningful change.  I suggest airing 60 minutes in progress, then re-airing it after the regular sunday programming concludes.

Michael