Twenty-five years ago this week, the NFL made a momentous decision that has altered the potential outcome of every NFL scoreboard since. The biggest headline the day owners met in Orlando on March 22, 1994, was the addition of new franchises in Carolina and Jacksonville. But as far as the actual play on the field, few decisions have mattered as much as the adoption of the two-point conversion.
College football already offered the two-point conversion after touchdowns at the time, the old AFL had the two-pointer in place throughout its 10-year history, and the NFL even adopted a modified version for the first season after the leagues merged.