And if a late TD puts a team up by 5, they’ll typically go for 2 because there’s no difference between a 5 and 6 point lead, but a 7 point lead means something.
One of the best 2-pointers I ever saw was last year when the offense was going for two, the QB threw a pass to a running back but it bounced off a defender’s helmet, into the endzone, where there was a tussle for the pass, which eventually rolled incomplete at the goal line where the running back walked over and picked the ball up to give to the refs, but review showed that the pass was a lateral, so the ball was live the whole time, so it counted for 2.
Football just would not be worth watching without these moments of what-the-fuck.
What time in the video was that?
14:33 mark
The link should be cued to the proper spot, but if not it’s around 14:31. There are several replays.
As a Seahawks fan, the fact that almost every game they ever play has some crazy BS that nobody has ever seen before is not great for my mental or physical health.
It’s the NFL’s fault. They don’t allow the video to play in the post and require you to go to YouTube which strips out the timestamp.
The NFL…is there anything they can’t enshittify?
If a defensive player runs a failed PAT attempt back for a 2 point try he gets credit for no yards running or for an interception. He does get credited for 2 points.
I assume he gets credit for a fumble recovery. It certainly isn’t an interception, and I don’t hink they record yards returned on a defensive fumble recovery.
Nope. He gets credit for the 2 points, but it doesn’t count as a fumble recovery or interception or return yards or anything else.
Just as, if the offense succeeds at a two-point conversion, the players involved in the play (a rusher, or a quarterback/receiver combo) don’t get credited with yardage, nor a passing/rushing attempt or reception.
Correct. But whoever scores the conversion gets the credit for two points scored.
(When my son was in the 7th grade and played football, he was a little-used backup running back. During one game, he caught his only pass of the season–a two-point conversion. His final stat line for the season was no carries, no receptions…but two points scored!)
The NFL keeps offensive, defensive, and special teams stats separated.
If a player on offense is tackled while inside his own end zone during a try, it counts as a safety, and one point is awarded to the defense.
Thus, it is theoretically possible for a game to have a final score of 6-1. But it’s very improbable and has never happened in organized football as far as we know.
In Canadian football, they often score 1 point if a kick is downed in the endzone by the kicking team – a field goal attempt, kickoff or punt. That is, if the kicking team gains possession and downs the ball. Of course, the goal posts are on the goal line, and the endzone is 20 yards deep. How they handle PATs I am not sure.
The CFL changed a number of rules this past season, to a lot of consternation among longtime CFL fans, including some changes on “singles” (also sometimes known as “rouges”); one of those changes is that a missed field goal which goes out of bounds in the end zone no longer earns a single point.
They also shortened the field and the end zones, and moved the goal posts from the goal line to the end line.
AIUI, even before the changes, a single couldn’t be scored on a missed PAT.
If anyone is wondering but not curious enough to google, the CFL dimensions are now closer to but do not match NFL dimensions. (Same length now, but still noticeably wider.)
I kind of feel like rushing yards should count, positive or negative. It’s still earned, just not while the game clock is active.
Defensive stats especially should count. If they try to run for the 2PT, and you stuff them behind the line, do you get credited for a “tackle for a loss?” There’s probably contract bonuses involved for getting a certain number of them and it would suck if they “didn’t count.”