Actually, you were allowed to run or pass the ball in for a 1-point score for the PAT back in those days. I saw it happen, especially when the kicker was injured or the kick was blocked. So the QB could have lined up under center and kneeled. Nothing forced you to kick the ball.
Why Didn't The Dolphins Have To Kick The Pat After Their Walk-off Td??
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Actually, you were allowed to run or pass the ball in for a 1-point score for the PAT back in those days. I saw it happen, especially when the kicker was injured or the kick was blocked. So the QB could have lined up under center and kneeled. Nothing forced you to kick the ball.
That is true that nothing forced you to kick the ball but in 1989 there was also no down side to doing so. Until recently, the opposing team could not return a blocked extra point for a two point score. Thus was absolutely no risk to kicking the extra point with no time remaining.
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The return rule wasn't in effect then. If it was blocked, there was no return.
Good point! Buffalo still showed Miami up though by kicking a meaningless PAT.
I'm guessing the end of last year's (saints/vikings?) playoff game helped get them to get it. The one where it took like 10 minutes to get the teams back out there
No. The other team can’t score on the extra point. Once they turn the ball over the play is dead.
That’s not true. Walt Aiken’s returned a blocked xp against Arizona for 2 points in 2016
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Back then the xtra points were literally automatic.
Learn something new everyday. Was that a rule change? I thought I remember back in the day years ago seeing INTs after a 2 pt attempt and the player just dropping the ball and the play dead
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They changed it i think a season before they moved the XP back