The AFC Championship game last Sunday began with one of the rarest things to happen in the NFL these days — the New England Patriots winning the coin toss and then electing to receive.
That’s something that occurred less often this season than any other in NFL history with teams that won the coin toss electing to defer their choice — and take the ball to start the second half — 82.5 percent of the time.
When it came to the Seahawks themselves, it was 100 percent of the time.
Seattle won a whopping 10 of 16 coin tosses during the regular season and then two more in the post-season, and the Seahawks chose to defer and take the ball to start the second half all 12 times.