Tuesday, November 13, 2018

FOOTBALL: THE ONE-POINT SAFETY

There has never been a one-point safety in the NFL, but the rules do allow for such a score.

A one point safety can only occur after a failed point after touchdown attempt. For the defense to score a one point safety, the offense would have to botch the extra point so badly, that an offensive player wound up in his own end zone, 98 yards away, and then get tackled in the end zone.

In NCAA football, the ball is not ruled dead when a defensive player touches the ball after a failed extra point attempt. In the 2013 Fiesta Bowl Kansas State blocked an Oregon extra point attempt and then attempted to run it back. A Kansas State player was eventually tackled in his own end zone, resulting in what would have been a safety on an ordinary play. However, because it happened on a conversion attempt, it was scored as a one-point safety.

In 2015, the NFL changed the rule that the play was called dead when the defense took possession of the ball after a failed extra point attempt. Now, a defensive player can attempt to score on a failed extra point attempt as Kansas State did in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl.

More information and a video One-Point Safety

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