# Has anyone ever missed an extra point in football?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-missed-an-extra-point-in-football/138415>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 24, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-missed-an-extra-point-in-football/138415 "2002-11-24T00:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-missed-an-extra-point-in-football/138415/61 "2002-11-26T19:51:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fleetwood \*  
> \*\*Personally, I have missed hundreds of extra points.  
> After a touchdown and before the commercial is usually the best time to get to the washroom ahead of the crowd! \*\*

Har! 😃  
RR

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**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-missed-an-extra-point-in-football/138415/62 "2002-11-27T17:30:28Z")

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PatrickM: Still disagree. I’ve seen too many games where a missed PAT made a difference. After all these years, I remember a game from the '72 or '73 season where the Colts, then in Baltimore, led Cincinnati 20-13, but the Bengals scored a TD with something like 20 seconds left. Ted Hendricks blocked the extra point to give the Colts a 20-19 win, one of their few highlights in a 5-9 season.

And the PAT makes a bigger difference in high school football

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