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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Because you've already decided you are going for two if you score a TD, so going second guarantees you can use all four downs if the other team scores a FG or TD. And maybe one day we'll see it, but it'd be ballsy to go for two as the first team possessing it cause obviously a miss means a TD+EP beats you.
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The value in getting a 2nd possession that’s sudden death far outweighs the value in seeing what your opponent did first (which is often not even a scoring possession) to match it or beat it