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Beginning next season, the NFL will move the goal posts ten yards back from the goal line to the end line as in the college game...
...NFL has also made pro coaches' lives more difficult by ruling that after a missed field goal, the ball must be returned to the line of scrimmage or to the 20-yard line, whichever is further...
Overall, the NFL has toppled the field goal kicker as the offensive ruler of the game only to enthrown the punter as defensive field marshall...
...compensation, the NFL approved another rule change which states that members of a team kicking from scrimmage, either when punting or kicking a field goal, cannot cross the line of scrimmage until the ball is kicked. The rule change is designed to encourage punt returns, which averaged less than eight yards and produced only ten touchdowns in the last two seasons...
Again, however, the NFL proved itself myopic, for once across the fifty, pro punters should be able to boot the ball into the end zone or send it out of bounds near the ten. Undoubtedly, with the new prominence of the punting game, coaches will demand that their punters specialize in angling their kicks out of bounds...