ditto the OT rule. Might as well just toss a coin and give the winner the win. I cannot remember when I last saw the team that gets the ball first lose in OT.
well, thanks to the power of google, you can rest assured - stats from 1974-2003, there have been 325 OT games, the team that won the coin toss won 169 times, or 52%, 43% were won by the team that lost the coin toss, 141 games, and 15 games ended in a tie.
i don't see stats that update it past that point, but just did a pretty quick search, but doesn't sound like it is as prevalent as originally thought