The Philadelphia Eagles have again proposed new language in the NFL’s timing rules to count down the last minute in both the second and fourth quarters using tenths of seconds on stadium scoreboard clocks.
Stadium clocks “will count down in one second increments except in the last 60 seconds of the 2nd and 4th quarter, when the clocks will transition to a countdown in tenths of seconds,” the proposed language states, as reported by NBC's Pro Football Talk.
Using tenths of a second is already done in basketball and some other sports, for those last-minute situations when the difference between 2.9 seconds remaining and 2.0 seconds remaining might be significant. This is the second straight off-season that the Eagles have raised the topic with the rest of the NFL.
"Last year, there was resistance from some NFL teams because the clocks they already had on their stadium scoreboards weren’t capable of showing tenths of seconds, and the teams didn’t want to spend the money to make the necessary changes," NBC's Michael David Smith wrote.
For the rule to pass, at least 24 of the NFL's 32 teams will have to vote in favor of it.
