Remember when the goalposts were on the goal line? I don't, but I saw it on TV. Players kept cracking themselves on it so they moved it to the back of the end zone.

I wonder if there was a shit storm then about players being pussies and ruining the game by making FGs longer.

Why would that make a difference? Will the new commissioner not act as the owners want him to?

God - so much of this.

That SOB just HAS to mess with EVERYTHING.

The owners must really be shocked at everything he is doing to screw with the game. They are defenseless against Goodell, who apparently is the boss of the owners.

It sure didn't seem like as many things were being changed, or considered to be changed, under Paul T.

You probably just don't remember, and a lot of the rule stuff is related to concussions which didn't really emerge as the major issue it is now until after Paul T. Point is, NONE of this stuff--rule changes, adding teams to the playoffs, what days games are played-- is done without explicit approval from the owners, and they likely suggest a lot of it. He is carrying out their wishes.

We can only imagine the kind of stuff that is suggested behind the scenes. I'd be surprised if there weren't at least proposals for TV games every night of the week, adding a couple rounds to the playoffs, teams in Mexico and London, and who knows what else.

Not that I'm a Goodell fan or anything, I just think the blame should go to where it belongs.

They are neither shocked nor defenseless, they are simply money-whores who are paying him well to take the heat for moves that might somehow lead to more money. But I think you already knew all of that.

This is a really salient point. If the game currently existed with every team going for two after a touchdown nobody would argue for a boring single automatic point kick to be added.

Either way, kicking in general has become too good. Ryan Succop had the 28th best kicking accuracy this season. That put him 12% better at kicking FGs than Jan Steneruds career average.

Just in the last decade there has been a huge jump. This year Rob Bironas was the 20th most accurate FG kicker at 86.2%. In 2002, that would have placed him as the 5th most accurate. That includes the fact that there are far more 50+ yarders taken this season.

Kickers haven't missed a kick inside of 40 yards yet in the playoffs.

I don't really care about the PAT.

Also, I used to have a lot of anger towards Goodell.

After thinking about it, he's only doing what the owners want him to do.

LMAO Come on, man. You gotta be smarter than this.

So we could take the rugby rule and where you score is where you kick from. So a fade corner route would lead you being stuck kicking it from the sideline.

(I believe it is where the player is forced to put the ball down in the try in rugby area is where you kick from on the field)

Well, I was being sarcastic if that's what you mean. Goodell acts on behalf of the owners.

You, sarcastic??? No!!!!!!!!!!

The owners are trying to maximize revenue any way possible. If eliminating the extra point is profitable, they will find a way to make it happen.

Or we can just get rid of the stupid PAT.

There is no logical reason for the PAT to even exist, other than "we always had it".