For the second week in a row, an NFL referee has screwed up the coin toss to start overtime, in a way that went against the Falcons.

With the Panthers and Falcons tied 27-27 today in Atlanta, the game went to overtime and the Panthers won the toss. The referee asked Panthers captain Bryce Young what he wanted to do, and he said, “We want to kick that way,” pointing in the direction he wanted to kick.

But the coin toss winner can’t make that choice. After he chooses to kick or receive, it’s the other team’s captain who gets to choose which direction to go in.

And yet the referee allowed the Panthers to make that choice, didn’t ask the Falcons what choice they wanted to make, and started overtime with the Panthers kicking off in the direction Young chose. That was a basic game administrat

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