In the process, the NFL avoided a larger controversy had the coin landed on tails the second time. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was at midfield as one of the team's captains and called 'tails' before the first. Arizona Cardinals Home: The official source of the latest Cardinals headlines, news, videos, photos, tickets, rosters and game day. That is why he re-tossed the coin.' The Cardinals would have won either toss. A crazy Cardinals playoff win over the Packers, and a memorable overtime coin toss. The Cardinals won, chose to receive the kickoff and promptly won the game on a 5-yard touchdown reception by receiver Larry Fitzgerald on the third play of overtime. A crazy Cardinals playoff win over the Packers, and a memorable overtime coin toss. the coin toss: the referee threw it up and it. The Packers forced overtime Saturday night, thanks to a miraculous last-second Hail Mary, and then the Cardinals. The Arizona Cardinals beat the Green Bay Packers in a remarkable Divisional Playoff game, 26-20 in overtime, to advance to the NFC Championship. This time, the coin did flip and landed on heads again. The Arizona Cardinals-Green Bay Packers NFC Divisional Playoff was one to remember. He did not give Rodgers the opportunity to change his call. It did not flip in the air and landed on heads, presumably making the Cardinals the winner.īlakeman, however, called off the toss, telling both teams that the coin hadn't flipped. Packers quarterback and captain Aaron Rodgers called tails, and Blakeman tossed the coin in the air. The word 'flip' doesnt appear in the NFLs rulebook and theres nothing in the part about coin tosses that specifies how the coin should be tossed. The event occurred with captains from both teams gathered at midfield at University of Phoenix Stadium. "But the referee used his judgment to determine that basic fairness dictated that the coin should flip for the toss to be valid. "There is nothing in the rulebook that specifies ," NFL spokesman Michael Signora said in a statement. Although there is no rule requiring the coin to flip in the air during a legal coin toss, the league said Blakeman acted out of "basic fairness" rather than a misinterpretation of protocol. After a Hail Mary from Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers sent Packers- Cardinals into overtime, there was an even more unbelievable occurrence. The NFL has confirmed that referee Clete Blakeman made his own decision to repeat the coin toss before overtime in Saturday night's divisional playoff game between the Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals.
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