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unusual facts about extra point



1970 Cincinnati Bengals season

Kicker Horst Muhlmann added 15 points on five field goals, and four extra points by Muhlmann completed the special teams onslaught.

Red Right 88

The logic behind trying for the touchdown was that Browns kicker Don Cockroft had previously missed two field goal attempts, had one extra point attempt blocked and had another aborted following a bad snap.


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1960 NFL Championship Game

Hornung came off the bench to kick the extra point, giving Green Bay a 13–10 lead.

1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game

Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel.

2008 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team

Beyah, who had two catches for 59 yards on the final drive, tied the game 13-13 with his breathtaking grab and freshman kicker Alan Gendreau, who was frozen twice by consecutive Florida Atlantic timeouts, nailed the extra point to send the remaining Blue Raider faithful into a frenzy as the students stormed the field.

Dale Livingston

On September 6, 1968, in the Bengals first-ever regular-season game, he kicked the first extra point in Bengals history after a touchdown run by Paul Robinson to give the Bengals 7-0 lead over the San Diego Chargers.

Drop goal

The last successful drop kick in a professional American football game was when Doug Flutie successfully drop kicked a football for an extra point in the New England Patriots' regular-season finale against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006; prior to that, the last successful drop kick in a regular-season game was in 1941.

Paul Skansi

He is widely known for catching the tying 25-yard touchdown pass (Norm Johnson's extra point on the last play won the game) from Seahawks quarterback Dave Krieg in the final second of a November 11, 1990 game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.