Aaron Rodgers explains what happened during referee’s botched coin flip

He picked up the coin and flipped it to tails and he flipped it without giving me a chance to make a re-call there.

The NFL confirmed Sunday the coin doesn’t have to flip when it’s tossed in order for the result to count.

“There is nothing in the rulebook that specifies (a required flip)”, National Football League spokesman Michael Signora said in a statement.

“I think he was trying to avoid the embarrassment of what just happened and flip it quickly”, Rodgers said. Rodgers said the referee did not give him the option of changing his call, so the Packers were stuck with tails.

The second toss flipped and landed on heads.

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The Packers offense never had an opportunity to see the field in overtime, as the Cardinals scored a touchdown on their first drive to seal a 26-20 victory.

The Packers were not given a chance to call “heads” or “tails” before the second toss, and the coin once again landed on heads. “But the referee used his judgment to determine that basic fairness dictated that the coin should flip for the toss to be valid”. But few would have figured the coin toss before overtime would become such a topic of conversation.

This wasn’t the first time a referee has chosen to re-toss a coin. It was just tossed in the air and did not turn over at all and landed on the ground [heads]. Blakeman didn’t do that though and he assumed that Green Bay wanted to call tails again, which left Aaron Rodgers fuming. So obviously that was not right. “I mean, he flipped the coin and it just never went up. I’m sure that would’ve been a little bit of controversy if we had won”.

To start overtime, official Clete Blakeman brought the captains out to midfield to decide who would receive the ball.