Interception on 2pt Conversion?

[Pete123444]

Are there 1pt. conversions in the NFL? How do they work?

They snap the ball to a guy on his knees. He puts the ball down where he is at with the ball standing straight up. He holds it there for as long as he can with one finger.......And somebody runs up from behind him and kicks it. They get 1 point for that.

[lmcjaho]

yeah i know it was blown dead. but the pass was still caught by the defense. i think it should be charged as an interception...not just an incompletion. but apparently that's not how the rules are written. and obviously i didn't have a hand in writing them.

In my last full season in touch football (the year before I blew up every ligament in my knee) I lost the race for most INTs by 1 - I had 3 picks of conversion attempts that didn't count...

[Atog]

Are there 1pt. conversions in the NFL? How do they work?

They snap the ball to a guy on his knees. He puts the ball down where he is at with the ball standing straight up. He holds it there for as long as he can with one finger.......And somebody runs up from behind him and kicks it. They get 1 point for that.

...you know that 1 point conversions (I assumed that people knew I wasn't talking about kicking) actually happen?

[monkey69]

This should be counted as an INT - well, too bad we don't write the rules

[Alkaholik]

I think in college they can run it back for the 2pts

[eaglesrule]

it shouldn't be an INT. It doesn't really result in a change of possesion for the other team -- it shouldn't be weighted like a real INT. The only similar thing is that the other team caught a pass. But no change of possesion, no chance for return, no INT.

[Fool42]

[quote="Atog"][quote="Pete123444"][quote="Atog"]Are there 1pt. conversions in the NFL? How do they work?[/quote]

They snap the ball to a guy on his knees. He puts the ball down where he is at with the ball standing straight up. He holds it there for as long as he can with one finger.......And somebody runs up from behind him and kicks it. They get 1 point for that.[/quote]


...you know that 1 point conversions (I assumed that people knew I wasn't talking about kicking) actually happen?[/quote]

Please explain. I don't think there is such a thing other than a kick

[Atog]

Another claim to his short-lived NFL fame is that he is the last player to rush for a one-point conversion, running in a muffed PAT attempt at Cincinnati.

So if you attempt to kick a PAT somehow score instead.

[BrutallyHuge]

Another claim to his short-lived NFL fame is that he is the last player to rush for a one-point conversion, running in a muffed PAT attempt at Cincinnati.

So if you attempt to kick a PAT somehow score instead.

If you run it in, it counts as 2.

There's been plenty of fake XPs and then get the 2pt conversion.

I think you are taking about the dinosaur era....before the 2pt conversion in the NFL...if you ran it in, you'd get 1pt because there was no 2pt conversion.

[Firemoth]

Another claim to his short-lived NFL fame is that he is the last player to rush for a one-point conversion, running in a muffed PAT attempt at Cincinnati.

He must have done this before 1994(?), which is when the NFL adopted the two-point conversion. That is why they say he is the last player to rush for a one-point conversion.

Because the NFL did not wish to allow the defending team to score two points on a failed-conversion return, they blow the play dead as soon as the defending team gets possession.
However, the obscure "one-point safety" (Google: "one point safety" NFL) is in the NFL rulebook, apparently. In the NFL, it can only occur if the defending team knocks the ball into their own end-zone during an extra-point attempt. (If the ball was already in the end-zone, it wouldn't be a safety obviously.) It is a bit more plausable in college, where the attempt doesn't end on change of possession, and one seems to have occured in the Texas vs. Texas A&M game of 2004.

It might also be a one-point safety, but for the defence, if the attempting team runs backwards the 98 yards to their own end-zone, then gets tackled. (Since the clock doesn't run on extra point attempts, there is no good reason why this should ever happen.) I do not believe that this counts as a safety, but I can't find a good copy of the rules to check.

http://www.nfl.com/fans/rules/try
"The successful conversion counts one point by kick; two points for a successful conversion by touchdown; or one point for a safety. "