The most boring play in football might be coming to an end. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday that the league is considering a proposal to eliminate extra points.
“The extra point is almost automatic,” Goodell said, via NFL.com. “I believe we had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200-some-odd. So it’s a very small fraction of the play, and you want to add excitement with every play.”
What would Goodell and the NFL do to replace extra points?
“It’s automatic that you get seven points when you score a touchdown, but you could potentially go for an eighth point, either by running or passing the ball, so if you fail, you go back to six.”
Basically, under this proposal, a team would get seven points for a touchdown unless it wanted to try for an eighth. And if a team went for the eighth point and failed, it would only get six points for the score.
