It seems the overwhelming trend now when winning the opening toss is to elect to kick. My recollection of the 80s and 90s was that teams elected to receive. I’m not sure when this changed or why. Any thoughts on why and when it changed?
Also, is this maybe a Mandela effect where we are remembering history wrong (other fans I’ve asked recall the same thing in the 80s).
People have been taking the ball in the 2nd half for awhile now, the patriots did it all the time when they were dominating. Don’t know if they started the trend but I remember announcers back then talking about the possibility of scoring twice in a row