The National Football League (NFL) will begin to experiment with extra points in regards to the point after attempt (PAT) and try to implement a new system for the next season. Under current rules, once teams score a touchdown, they have the option for a PAT to either kick a short field goal for one extra point, which adds up to seven total points, or attempt to score another touchdown, starting at the two yard line with only one try. This gives the team two extra points for a total of eight points.

In May of this year, the NFL is planning to further review the controversy. In the upcoming preseason for the NFL, officials are debating various possibilities for an extra point. NFL team owners are considering five different solutions to the PAT. Regarding the kick, the owners have suggested placing the ball on the one and a half yard line instead of the two, moving all extra point attempts to the fifteen yard line, eliminating the PAT kicks entirely, or allowing the defense to score if the ball is turned over on a two point try.

The NFL team owners, with all these suggestions in mind, are reviewing the changes in order to make the onepoint conversion more difficult. There are many controversial arguments about this idea of changing the kicking rule so the league will be testing it out before the season starts to see if players and officials agree with the new ruling. In addition, there will be a league meeting where team owners and NFL owners will develop alternatives for the one-point conversion and vote upon the suggestion that seems most fitting for the game. With their discussions, NFL team owners are encouraging a more demanding and entertaining rule system.

“I think it’s a good idea to change the system in order to provide a different approach and also give the football players a challenge,” sophomore varsity football player Nick Pedroza said.

Kicking the ball has proven to be an almost automatic point in the NFL league and officials are experimenting with altering the rule in order to make NFL games more entertaining for viewers. NFL team owners want to encourage more two-point conversions for a more exciting method and fair way to score.

“I think that it [the controversy] is unfair because football players have been training to perfect this extra point and the game itself is already perfect so there’s no need to change it up,” junior varsity football player Anthony Russo said.

Professional football is planning on integrating some changes to the rule book, and will see if these changes will help the game become more balanced. NFL team owners are meeting for discussion and there may be many possible adjustments that could occur with the PAT kicking rule. Players may have to modify their game to become more accustomed to this change, but hopefully these new ideas will increase the difficulty and benefit those watching and playing the game.