Helicopter football drop ahead of Utah state championship game goes viral

If the NFL was ever looking for caller ideas to spice up however it determines which squad starts the crippled with the ball, it could look to the Utah 1A Eight-Player State Championship.

The crippled betwixt Rich High School and Monticello High School went viral arsenic a chopper was seen flying implicit the field, hovering implicit midfield and dropping a shot to fto the skipper scrap for possession.

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A chopper drops a shot onto the field. (Credit: @porterellett /TMX)

Kansas City Chiefs moving backs manager Porter Ellett posted a video connected his X relationship showing the chopper flying toward the field. 

"My nephew is playing for the authorities rubric today. Instead of a coin toss, they driblet the crippled shot from a chopper and fto the captains combat for it. Bring it to the league @NFL" Ellett wrote successful the post.

It was aboriginal clarified that the accepted coin flip took spot earlier the shot drop.

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Rich won the crippled implicit Monticello 50-14, but fans could not get capable of the thought of dropping a shot connected the tract and letting 2 players combat for the football.

It reminded immoderate of the archetypal Xtreme Football League and however it decided possession erstwhile the league archetypal started.

If the NFL was looking for a caller idea, it whitethorn person gotten one. (Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

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The coin flip was replaced with a scramble that saw 1 subordinate from each squad sprint to retrieve a shot spot 20 yards away. However, the XFL’s archetypal wounded occurred connected the scramble, and critics panned it from the beginning.

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