SUBTRACTING EXTRA POINTS!

The NFL is considering the elimination of kicked extra points and I think  they should. With the exception of a botched snap every millennium or so, the kick for PAT has become one of the most automatic and boring plays in professional sports.

What I do not like, is the NFL's plan to give 7 points for touchdown and then give the teams the option to run a play to get and "extra point" to make it 8. If the play fails, the scoring team would have a point subtracted and wind up with a total of 6 points for their efforts. 

Can you imagine what this would do to various scoring records in the NFL? 

Can you imagine what this would do to anyone who had money bet on the game? The heart attacks in Vegas alone would be astronomical. Your team could be beating the spread after a touchdown, but  seconds later, if they strategically went for the 8th point and failed, 

you could be back to 6 points and out of the money.

The answer is simple. Keep the value of a touchdown at  6 points, but make every team run a play for  a two point conversion. If the play is successful, the scoring team ends up with 8 points. If the play flops, they still  get the 6 points for the TD. It's not a whole lot different than the way PAT's are handled now, except that teams would not lose points that were already up on the scoreboard. 

The NFL's concept is good, but it needs some very simple tweaking to make PAT's significant again.

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LB's EXTRA POINT-  If the NFL is serious about keeping the game moving, keeping the game interesting and eliminating boring, useless plays, how about outlawing the "Victory formation." Those kneel-downs in the closing minutes are a waste of time and an insult to the paying customers. You take a knee to pray NOT to play!

 Make NFL teams run plays until the final gun goes off. It could be a simple quarterback sneak or a handoff, or some fool running backwards zig-zags as the clock ticks to zero, but the offense and defense would have to be engaged. They would not be just going through the motions and playing patty-cake. More importantly, the trailing team would have a chance to clobber somebody and possibly get the ball back.

WHAT DO YOU THINK??

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