NFL moving extra points back ... in the preseason as forwarded by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267)293-9201
I've never heard anyone complain
about extra points. They're just there during NFL games, not hurting or
helping the sport, just the bread before the meal at a steakhouse.
Nobody talks about how the bread needs to be improved.
Somehow, extra points became a
hot topic. For some reason this was the part of the game that had to
dramatically change, either eliminating them or moving them back to make
them tougher – because if there's something that will make the NFL
better, it's putting the outcomes of more games on a kicker's shoulders.
It seems that the first step
toward making the extra point a substantial part of the game is coming
this preseason. For the first two preseason games, teams will line up to
snap extra points from the 20-yard line, making them about 38 yards
instead of 20, which has been the standard. A proposal for a new
permanent rule to snap extra points from the 25-yard line was tabled. By
experimenting in the preseason, the NFL can see how it goes and
determine if that's something it wants to implement.
For anyone who likes this idea,
remember that when your team drives down 80 yards for what looks like a
game-tying touchdown in the final seconds of a hard-fought game, only to
see the kicker miss a 37-yard kick. See if that scenario adds to the
value of the game.
The NFL did approve a rule
making the goal posts five feet taller, which will make it easier for
officials to determine if a field goal is good. Also passed was the
"NaVorro Bowman rule," to allow officials to review the recovery of
loose balls. Bowman stripped a ball in the NFC championship game, a play
in which the 49ers' star linebacker hurt his knee, and had the ball in
his possession, but the play was not reviewable. Now that kind of play
will be subject to review.
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