If the NFL was ever watching for new ideas to spice up how it determines which team begins the game with the ball, it could watch to the Utah 1A Eight-Player State Championship.
The game between Rich High School and Monticello High School went viral as a helicselecter was seen flying over the field, hovering over midfield and dropping a football to let the captain scrap for ownion.
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A helicselecter drops a football onto the field. (Credit: @porterellett /TMX)
Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Porter Ellett posted a video on his X account shotriumphg the helicselecter flying toward the field.
“My nephew is carry outing for the state title today. Instead of a coin toss, they drop the game ball from a helicselecter and let the captains fight for it. Bring it to the league @NFL” Ellett wrote in the post.
It was tardyr clarified that the traditional coin toss took place before the ball drop.
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Rich won the game over Monticello 50-14, but fans could not get enough of the idea of dropping a football on the field and letting two carry outers fight for the football.
It reminded some of the innovative Xtreme Football League and how it determined ownion when the league first begined.
If the NFL was watching for a new idea, it may have gotten one. (Nic Antaya/Getty Images)
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The coin toss was swapd with a scramble that saw one carry outer from each team sprint to recover a football place 20 yards away. However, the XFL’s first injury occurred on the scramble, and critics panned it from the beginning.
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