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Coin Toss Has Flipped (alien.top)
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It seems the overwhelming trend now when winning the opening toss is to elect to kick. My recollection of the 80s and 90s was that teams elected to receive. I’m not sure when this changed or why. Any thoughts on why and when it changed?

Also, is this maybe a Mandela effect where we are remembering history wrong (other fans I’ve asked recall the same thing in the 80s).

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[–] jdstr8@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Teams didn’t have the option to defer until 2008. That’s when the change started.