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NFL kickers put excitement back into extra points with their misses

By Barry Wilner, The Associated Press

The idea was to put some excitement into NFL extra points. On Sunday, it became unwise to head to the fridge when the kickers came in.

A dozen times in Week 11, those 1-pointers became no-pointers. Blame the swirling winds. Blame the suspect blocking. Blame sloppy holding.

Or point fingers at the toes of Mike Nugent and Robbie Gould, who each missed a pair of PATs. Not to mention Stephen Gostkowski and Steven Hauschka. Connor Barth and Kai Forbath. Matt Prater and Cody Parkey. And Jason Myers, who failed on seven extra points last season — yep, seven — and still kept his job with the Jaguars.