Talks about removing the Point After Touchdown (PAT) from the NFL have surfaced because the play has been deemed ‘unexciting’ and seen as nearly meaningless in determining the outcome of a game. 
However, the extra point should neither be eliminated from the game nor changed in any manner, because its relative insignificance is equal to that of the kicker position. But the extra point’s insignificance to the outcome of the game should not be changed in any way just to add another thrill for the fans. If you want to do that, just bring back the hard hits that are now illegal. Removing the extra point from the game simply because it is not an exciting play is a ploy for the NFL to make more money, of which it surely does not have enough. The NFL has become more of a money-grab and less of a football league.
First we move the NFL Draft so it can be an all-weekend affair, and then we implement Thursday Night Football. Clearly the commissioner is no fantasy football connoisseur, because the more days you have to tinker with your lineup and over think every possible matchup, the better. But removing the extra point play cannot be about adding excitement to the game. Baseball suffers the most ridicule of any sport because of the slow pace.
Nine innings of shutout ball could be fixed by bringing outfield fences closer to generate more home runs: irrefutably the most exciting play in baseball. Shortening the outfield fence would also leave more room for bleachers, adding more fans (more money) to see this new, super-exciting play that will occur 10 times per game. But baseball doesn’t do that even while knowing it has the slowest rate of play of any sport—other than the final 2 minutes of a basketball game.  
If you don’t want to get rid of the extra point entirely, why not just alter the play to make it a little bit harder? Let’s say we move the kick back to the 35 or 40-yard line. At least it will now be challenging for kickers instead of having them trot out there after the offense did all the work to kick a 19-yard chip shot. When you move the play back to said yard line, you place even more emphasis on the kicking game than before. Do you really want a Peyton Manning/Tom Brady showdown to end on a missed extra point from 35 or 40 yards out? Do you realize you have now just put the end of the game on the instep of Twinkle Toes? Are kickers even real football players? Don’t kid yourself. Leave the irrelevance of the PAT in the unpadded pants of the placekicker, and let them have their measly one point.  
Moving the ball back to the 35 or 40-yard line for the PAT also eliminates the possibility of a fake field goal or a (rational) two-point play. Nobody is going to fake a kick from the 40-yard line and expect the back-up tight end to outrun a defense for that many yards. Your removal of the ‘unexciting’ extra point just eliminated the chance for the exciting, sneaky tactic of a trick play that nobody knew was coming.
 
If anything, the PAT can be seen as a series of warm-up kicks. If the NFL gets rid of kickoffs and extra points, good luck to your kicker attempting that 53-yard game winner as the clock expires when he hasn’t been on the field the whole game.
 
Getting rid of the kicker is sort of ironic, seeing that he, and, I guess, the punter, are the only two individuals on the field that even touch the ball with their foot, yet we name the brutal sport in their honor. Letting the kicker feel important and relevant and manly among a group of 53 other men is just as important to him as it is to football.