Professional Football Argumentative Analysis

Professional football has gone through many changes since its first season 1920. The uniforms are more advanced, the fields are different, and rules have been modified. In 2015, the NFL has moved the extra point back from the two-yard line back to the 15-yard line in an attempt to add more skill to the point after touchdown. With extra point attempts now more difficult, a myriad of opinions are floating around about how teams in the NFL should approach these attempts. Some say take the field goal, some say to only go for two and that kicking shouldn’t even be an option. Each opinion has their merits, but who’s correct? The extra point is one of the oldest rituals in football. According to Steele (2015), the practice of the point after
Smith (2015) quoted Priefer as saying “(TCF Bank Stadium) is a nasty place to kick in November and December, and our guys will be ready for it. We’ll be used to it, absolutely.” In this quote, Priefer is referring to the rough winter weather that the Vikings frequently play in. Undoubtedly, warm weather and dome teams will face an extra degree of difficulty when they have to combat conditions that they aren’t used to. Seems like too much struggle with the snow and wind could lead to some teams to elect to go for two more
The answer is pretty simple: Because they can. The NFL’s commissioner, Roger Goodell has contemplated the removal of kicking extra points to encourage more teams to go for two. Goodell was quoted saying, “There's one proposal in particular that I've heard about," Goodell said. "It's automatic that you get seven points when you score a touchdown, but you could potentially go for an eighth point, either by running or passing the ball, so if you fail, you go back to six,” (Breech, 2014). A proposal like this would deeply depreciate kickers in the NFL, but the math behind the Steelers shows that some teams have moved past the need for kicking extra points. It’s possible that the league has out-grown kickers in this