NFL Experimenting with Extra Point Rule Change

The National Football League, in a move designed to increase interest in the game and make the almost automatic extra point attempt following a touchdown a meaningful exercise, experimented for the first two weeks of this year's exhibition season and moved the ball placement for the kick from the 2-yard line back to the 15-yard line.  This made the "PAT" attempt more of a challenge, essentially turning it into a 33-year field goal attempt.  The two-point option remained the same with the ball placed at the 2-yard line.  Maybe they'll turn this into a permanent rule, but not until 2015 at the earliest.  Critics of making the extra point attempt more significant say they don't want games decided by special teams, but I say that kicking is an important part of the game and missing an extra point in a game might prompt a decision to "go for two" with the next touchdown, making it more exciting.  Besides, the kickers have already been in a state of retreat from their dominant position in the early 1970s when the goal posts were on the goal line and just getting the ball into the other side's half of the field created field goal attempt opportunities.  And don't forget that the kickoffs were moved back, too, in order to reduce touchbacks.  I think the rule makers may be having second thoughts about that change, though, since kickoff returns are probably the single most dangerous, injury-producing type of play in the sport...