Los Angeles (AFP) - Referee Clete Blakeman's decision to make a second coin toss to start overtime between the Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers on Saturday was in the interest of "basic fairness" the NFL said Sunday.
NFL spokesman Michael Signora said there was "nothing in the rulebook" that required Blakeman to toss the coin again when it failed to flip over the first time.
"But the referee used his judgment to determine that basic fairness dictated that the coin should flip for the toss to be valid," Signora said. "That is why he re-tossed the coin.