Some what tangentially, I vaugely remember a Maryland college football game many years ago where the fans tore down the goalposts before the game ended, and Maryland was forced to try a two-point conversion after its last touchdown.
When I was in HS (that is around 50 years) our team didn’t have a place kicker and just tried to score (1 point only in those days) on the ground. I remember one game we won 18-4!
The University of North Texas kicker missed both PAT attempts in the first half of yesterday’s game. (Actually, they were blocked …) Then he went and hit a 45-yard field goal at the end of the half. Weird …
What’s amazing is how often that missed point results in the loss of the game by 1 point!
Just watch the Gators, we miss more extra points than we make it seems. And we miss the important ones, like the extra point in overtime against Alabama 3 years ago - it cost us the game.
You guys got safetied twice? Forget the missed PATs, how often does that happen??
Happy
I’ve been unable to pull up anything concrete on HS or college PAT, but here’s some for stats from NFL, subject to my addition errors.
For 2001 season, 19 of 1026 were missed. 22 kickers were perfect, 14 missed one, one two and one missed three.
For the eleven NFL weeks prior to today, the missed attempts occured in weekend 2,5,9(2 games),10(2) and 11.
There has been only one game in which the miss was clearly adverse, week two Minnesota missed two PAT and lost 45-39 to Buffalo in overtime.
In week ten, Pittsburgh and Atlanta had a 34-34 OT tie, Pittsburgh missed a PAT, the next score they went for two and were succesful. This is the game Pittsburgh lead 34-17 with about 11 minutes to play.
The other misses:Cleveland who lost to Pittsburg 23-20,Miami who beat New England 26-16,Jets who beat Detroit 31-14,San Diego who lost to Jets 44-13 and NYG who beat Minn 27-20.
I think that team didn’t make any extra points and just scored three touchdowns.
As for two safeties in a game, I believe both Oklahoma and NC State both had two safeties in their games last week.
A few years back, Arizona State got three against Nebraska.
The 'Skins just missed an extra point against St. Louie. Holder missed the snap.
Gopher: If you had seen the Indiana University football team play last year, you wouldn’t have bothered to ask the question.
The Hoosiers missed something like 7-9 PAT attempts as we had the worst !@#$%^ kicking game in Division I football.
Damn, I’m glad that knob Cameron is out as coach.
I’ve seen missed kicks several times, and I don’t watch much football at all.
I believe you confuse field goals for point after attempts.
Haj
Well, the Steelers missed one this weekend, and there may have been others that I didn’t see:
Falcons missed one today too
For those scoring at home, Indiana was 23 of 28 on kicking extra points in 2002. The Hoosiers were 2 for 5 when going for two.
Two kickers, Mangum of Texas and Brown of Nebraska had the most attempts without a miss with 44. Both have more games to play.
I haven’t figured out which team missed the most PATs by kicking, but it may be Kansas State, which was 61 for 69 kicking PATs.
The place-kick PAT in pro football is so routine and automatic that it ought to be eliminated. Just make touchdowns worth 7 points. That’s more an IMHO and not a fact, of course, but what the heck.
The place-kick PAT in pro football is so routine and automatic that it ought to be eliminated. Just make touchdowns worth 7 points. That’s more an IMHO and not a fact, of course, but what the heck.
Elam just missed one. Spooky.
That is amazing. Elam just missed an extra point, ending his streak.
Five minutes ago Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos missed the extra point.
In his defense, he used to be among the best in the league, but he hasn’t been the same after leg injuries over the past few years.