Get rid of the extra point

[Tarlam!]

You owe me 35 seconds, Guin!

[Tarlam!]

Taken from the same wiki article, this sounds appealing:

Arena football

In Arena football, a drop-kicked extra point counts for two points rather than one; a drop-kicked field goal counts for four points rather than three.[11]

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[mraynrand]

Get rid of the holders. Death to holders! Make them do a drop kick, which is a much more exciting and athletic play. It will also increase 2-point attempts, and what's not to like about that?

I couldn't agree more. Hey, wait, this isn't FYI!

[Harlan Huckleby]

Great post Harlan. One of the best I've ever read. You are in the zone man.

from a lesser man I would take this as sarcasm. what I hear from you is "duh, WINNING!"

drop kicking a pointy-pointy ball is no mean feat, but if my brother taught himself to do it, so I'm guessing a pro athlete can work it out. You don't let the ball bounce like the WIKI article suggests from the old days, you try to make contact just as it touches the ground. Maybe my brother kicking in the back yard was a little different than a kicker facing rushing linemen. I expect there will be a rash of kickers shitting themselves, but that's part of the fun.

[Tarlam!]

Under the rigorous supervision a fellow PR forum HOFer, I purchased an official, NFL-blessed, pointy-pointy ball. I have established that I can not only catch the damned thing when It is thrown to me by someone qualified to do so, but I can punt it rather well, punt a rugby style bomb with It well and, drop kick It rather accurately. Having said that, there were no 300lb defenders trying to decapitate me in the process.

Teams that have stadiums with natural grass surfaces will eventually gain an advantage over artificial surface teams, because they will have more practice opportunities. This is good thing.

[Bossman641]

With no extra point we would miss moments like this...

[red]

All i gotta say is, Great minds

i've read some of these arguments before from an equally wise man

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/23/bill-belichick-doesnt-see-the-point-in-extra-points/

[swede]

Actually, Football came first. Then, at an elite school in Rugby, a boy picked up the ball and ran with it And Rugby Football was born.

In 1970 at Huntley Elementary School, which was only elite in the sense that it was way better than Franklin Elementary, a boy from Mrs. Timmers' class picked up a ball and ran with it a short distance before 8 classmates pulled him to the ground and pounded his back with their fists until he ejected the ball out of the mob. The mob then chased the guy that picked it up, chased him down, and pummeled him until HE *ejected the ball. Thus, a game called **"Kill the Guy with the Ball" was born. "Rugby"..."Kill the Guy with the Ball"...sometimes it's all in the marketing.

*Ejecting the ball before the mob could catch you was considered bad form, as premature ejaculation universally is.

**It actually wasn't called "Kill the Guy with the Ball", but "Smear the Queer" is too intolerant for modern use.

[swede]

To the point, extra-wise, I'm generally in favor of conserving the game's rules as they stand now. It is a cool notion to offer more points for the 50 yard extra point, but after 59 minutes of tough, muddy, bloody, Bears/Packer football I would hate to see a Bears player in clean pants mince on to the field and beat us with a 3 point extra try.

[VermontPackFan]

Leave it. But lets make it more difficult so its not automatic. How about spotting the ball on the 25 yard line after a TD which makes it a 42 yard extra point attempt?

[bobblehead]

With no extra point we would miss moments like this...

That isn't irony, but its fucking hilarious.

[KYPack]

Good one, Bobble.

Man, I totally forgot about that play.

John Carney probably remembers it pretty good.

[NewsBruin]

Then would you adjust the number of points for a team scoring a 25-yard touchdown on one play? If not, would you have the offensive team declare whether it was going for a kick or TD play? If so, would the team get to run a scrimmage play from the 10, giving away its choice? If so, would a kicking team still be able to try a scrimmage play from kicking distance? If so, would their TD still score them 2 points?

There's not a lot of difference between "it just makes sense" and "it's gimmicky as all hell."

[King Friday]

42 yards is a bit too far IMO. I think the average for 40-49 yard FGs is around 60%...so I would expect between 75 and 80% for a 42 yard kick. I think we want to see more XPs converted than that...probably around 90%. A 30 or 35 yard kick probably makes more sense.

[pbmax]

In 1970 at Huntley Elementary School, which was only elite in the sense that it was way better than Franklin Elementary, a boy from Mrs. Timmers' class picked up a ball and ran with it a short distance before 8 classmates pulled him to the ground and pounded his back with their fists until he ejected the ball out of the mob. The mob then chased the guy that picked it up, chased him down, and pummeled him until HE *ejected the ball. Thus, a game called **"Kill the Guy with the Ball" was born. "Rugby"..."Kill the Guy with the Ball"...sometimes it's all in the marketing.

*Ejecting the ball before the mob could catch you was considered bad form, as premature ejaculation universally is.

**It actually wasn't called "Kill the Guy with the Ball", but "Smear the Queer" is too intolerant for modern use.

It was actually "Smear the Queer" when I went to school a long, long time ago and that name was protested. We changed it to "Kill The Guy" and it passed muster. Thus began Hollywood's new movie rating system.