[alnorth]

I also disagree with the argument that the PAT should be made more difficult, just get rid of the damned thing. If you are already willing to concede that the PAT as-is is a worthless thing that should be reformed or eliminated, then before you describe your new and improved PAT, you need to first explain why we should keep the PAT. "Because we've always done it" isn't a good enough reason, we don't play football to kick extra points, we play to score touchdowns.

If we didn't have the PAT and a TD was just worth 7 points, there is not a chance in hell that we'd think reducing it to 6 and introducing a PAT would be a good idea, even if it was a PAT that could be missed sometimes.