A coin toss in 1845 between Francis Pettygrove, who hailed from a different Portland, in Maine, and Asa Lovejoy, from Boston (the one in Massachusetts) eventually decided the matter.

Despite a curious trend where the coin-toss winner often doesn’t win the game, the Chiefs managed to “break” this trend in 2023 and 2024, becoming the first team since the 2014 Seattle ...

It's the most watched coin toss in the world. The Super Bowl begins with the flipping of a ceremonial coin, with the decision to start the first or second half with the ball on the line.

Coin toss before a 14-7 Miami Dolphins win over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII on January 14, 1973, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.