Very-OT: Ending an NFL Game with Just 1 Point
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There's such thing as a 1-point safety. Which means a safety on an extra point or two-point conversion attempt.
A team can finish with 1 point if they block an extra point and try to return it for a "TD"..which would be 2 points.
Lets say the team then fumbles on the 1 yard line, and the offensive team that just scored the TD picks it up to return it for the conversion (thus having to go 99 more yards). However, they are tackled in the endzone for a 1-point safety. Thus, the score would be 6-1.
Just thought it was an interesting fact..that not many people know about.
A team can finish with 1 point if they block an extra point and try to return it for a "TD"..which would be 2 points.
Lets say the team then fumbles on the 1 yard line, and the offensive team that just scored the TD picks it up to return it for the conversion (thus having to go 99 more yards). However, they are tackled in the endzone for a 1-point safety. Thus, the score would be 6-1.
Just thought it was an interesting fact..that not many people know about.
you can get a 1 point safety by blocking an extra point and blocking team gets the ball and runs back into their end zone and is tackled. New rule last year I think as they allowed blocked extra point attempts to be returned. So a team itself could score a single point but the other team would have to have scored a touchdown for this scenario to happen. The score could be 6-1 but not 1-0.
But that safety was by the team that scored the TD, i believe..which results in 7 points (plus the 6 for the TD) It's extremely rare for the team that gave up the TD to get a safety..which would result in a total of 1 point.
Yeah that gives you a point but it is made by the team that just scored, thus they would have seven points.
Yup, that play is very rare..but its even rarer for the team that gave up the TD to get a safety, but its possible.
I don't think that would work. If the offense is going for a 2-pt conversion after a touchdown, fumbles the ball, and the defense takes it toward their own goal, fumbles on 1 yard line and the original offense recovers in the end zone, isn't that a touchback, since possession changed.
I think for the 1-point play to occur, the offense would need to go for the conversion after the touchdown, fumble, and the ball would have to remain lose and unpossessed as it moves 80 yards back toward the goal line, with the original offense recovering in the endzone for a 1-point safety.
You may be right. Per the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/s...t-score-in-the-nfl-now-its-possible.html?_r=0
"Imagine an extra point is blocked. The ball caroms back 20 yards, and the kicking team gets it but immediately fumbles. The ball bounces farther down the field the wrong way. Maybe it is icy or rainy, and ball handling is difficult. Another offensive player grabs the ball and drops it. More bounces and bumbling, and the ball eventually travels 85 yards into the far end zone. One final player on the kicking team grabs the ball and is brought down. The result will be a 1-point safety for the defending team."
I guess a change of possession will nulify it...still possible, however. Ha.
As I think about it, I don't think it is a touchback in your scenario. If the offense had the ball on the 10 yard line, threw a pass that was intercepted by the defense and run back to the goal line, and the defense fumbled on the 1 yard line, recovered by the original offense in the endzone, that would be a safety. You wouldn't give the original offense a touchback and a fresh set of downs on the 20. You wouldn't call it a dead ball on the 1 where the original defense fumbled. It would be a safety, followed by a kick off.
So I think it is the same thing in the 1-point play scenario you presented. However, this is so unlikely, we may never know for sure how it would be called.
Upstream: "...As I think about it, I don't think it is a touchback in your scenario. If the offense had the ball on the 10 yard line, threw a pass that was intercepted by the defense and run back to the goal line, and the defense fumbled on the 1 yard line, recovered by the original offense in the endzone, that would be a safety..."
I don't believe it is a safety. Fumble at the 1 yard line into the kicking team's end zone and recovered by the original kicking team on a double change of possession should result in a touchback by the original kicking team just like if it occurred in normal play.
I don't believe it is a safety. Fumble at the 1 yard line into the kicking team's end zone and recovered by the original kicking team on a double change of possession should result in a touchback by the original kicking team just like if it occurred in normal play.
What happens if an intercepted pass is fumbled by the defense on the 1 yard line and recovered in the end-zone by the passing team? Is that a safety, touchback, something else?
Trick question Only in the CFL punt in the end zone that the receiving team does not return 1PT awarded
Once the defense intercepts the pass, it's change of possession. If they return it all the way to the one yard line and fumble and the original kicking team recovers it in the end zone (they don't establish possession until they fall on the ball in their own end zone), it's ball over to the original kicking team and a touchback. Since this is a goal-after-touchdown attempt, the play is over. Nobody scores. Cut to a commercial and sell cars or beer.
But if the defense intercepts the pass at their OWN ONE yard line, establishes possession and then fumbles it into their own end zone and the original kicking team recovers it in the defense's end zone, it's a successful 2-point conversion.
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