Rich is right. The NFL’s overtime rules need to be reformed. What makes the issue so frustrating is that the solution is staring us right in the face: college-football overtime rules. Even Canadian football has good overtime rules, as one Toronto Star columnist pointed out today, and theirs are similar to the NCAA’s.

The college-football rules guarantee that both teams get a chance to score, and they guarantee that games won’t end in a tie. The fact that we put up with NFL rules that fail to guarantee either is so un-American, it’s even un-Canadian.