Monday, March 3, 2014

Report: How about 43-yard Extra Points in Football?

((ht: nfl.com))

Whoa! This suggestion would certainly change the dynamic of NFL football and probably the way kickers are thought of too.

NFL.com reporter Judy Battista says the league is tossing around the idea of moving extra point snaps back from the 2-yard line to the 25. Add on 8-yards to the holder and the 10-yard set back for the goal post and you are looking at 43-yard extra points.

Battista says the league wants to make it more of a challenge since 99.6 percent of all extra points this past season (2013) were good. And apparently while mostly accurate, from the longer range, that accuracy rate drops to 83% (40-49 yds).

Hmmm...

Read more of Battista's report on NFL.com RIGHT HERE

So...what do you think about this? Is it feasible? Does it make you nervous? Does your team have a good enough kicker that you wouldn't have to worry about it?

All good questions. And as much as kickers have a certain stereotype about them...there's also the risk of this:



But if they're good at it...the payoff for things like what happened below. And yeah, it's a pretty good payoff:




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