NFL Extra Point Trivia (1 Viewer)

[Craig Walker]

You can score 1 point in the NFL (and NCAA) 2 ways.


One obviously is kicking an extra point.

What's the 2nd way?


(don't cheat and Google it)

 

[Craig Walker]

Stumbled on this Googling yesterday's fiasco...

 

[Alan12]

1-point safety, the rarest of all scoring plays.

 

[Craig Walker]

Yep. You knew it?

 

[Craig Walker]

https://youtu.be/jp4TeP4rw0s

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[St.Fury]

What is a 1-point safety?

 

[Alan12]

Yep. You knew it?

Yeah, I heard of it and seen a video on ESPN once but never seen one in a live game so I'm not even really familiar of how they occur.

 

[Craig Walker]

Extra point is blocked and other team gains possession in the field of play. They then retreat into the end zone and are tackled.

Any other time it's 2 points, but on the Xpt it's only 1. Crazy huh?

 

[TheDeparted]

So, is it the same if the kicking team somehow finds themselves in their own endzone as they get tackled, or is that 2 points or what?

 

[TheDeparted]

And obviously if the blocking team had recovered the ball in the endzone and were tackled, that would not result in the safety. Correct?

 

[St.Fury]

Extra point is blocked and other team gains possession in the field of play. They then retreat into the end zone and are tackled.

Any other time it's 2 points, but on the Xpt it's only 1. Crazy huh?

Wait... you mean, if Denver would've gained possession and, instead of going to the end zone to our backs, they ran backward to the end zone to THEIR back and gets tackled? Why would they even do that?

 

[Craig Walker]

See video in post 5.

It's happened twice in college, never in NFL (to my understanding)

 

[Craig Walker]

And obviously if the blocking team had recovered the ball in the endzone and were tackled, that would not result in the safety. Correct?

Yeah, that'd be just a dead ball (like touchback)

 

[HailStateSaintsFan]

And obviously if the blocking team had recovered the ball in the endzone and were tackled, that would not result in the safety. Correct?

Correct, because they did not field the ball in the field of play. The end zone is technically not in the field of play on kicking situations.

 

[St.Fury]

See video in post 5.

It's happened twice in college, never in NFL (to my understanding)

Sorry. Missed that video at first. So, yeah. Strange. I mean...the rule makes complete sense. But, retreating back into the end zone...why? If you can't return it, go down. The play is dead at that point.