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Originally Posted by ajmc
Has Coca-Cola ever got close to it's market share before announcing it's "new" formula?
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It exceeded its previous share and totals.
If you were designing a game from scratch, it'd be very unlikely you'd include "extra points" of any kind. Sometimes games (quiz shows, most commonly) have a qualifying goal that allows you to try for a score, or a
greater score if the qualifying goal scores by itself, but not the reverse.
I suspect the retention of the PAT was abetted by the (American) Football Rules Committee's removing the goals from the goal lines. If that hadn't happened, probably the try would've gone away by no later than 1925, Canadian football would've done similarly, and of course the 2 pt. conversion would never have been devised. But once the goals were on the end lines, there were a lot of HS teams that probably never attempted a goal except via try, so the try was considered significant, and then when their players got to college they were used to it, and since there was only one rules committee for American football, there was not much thought given to formulating rules only for HS.