The two-point conversion was not implemented in the NFL until 1994, but it had been previously used in the old American Football League ( AFL ) before it merged with the NFL in 1970.

In the NFL, the same foul would result in a penalty on the conversion attempt or ensuing kickoff, at the option of the non-penalized team.

The scoring is the same as in the NFL with the addition of a drop kick field goal worth four points during normal play or two points as a post-touchdown conversion.

The ability to score a touchdown on the point-after attempt ( two-point conversion ) was added to NCAA football in 1958, high school football in 1969, and the NFL in 1994.

Elam holds NFL records for best extra point conversion percentage (. 995 ), most consecutive seasons with at least 100 points ( 15 ), fastest to 300 successful field goals, fastest to 1, 600 and 1, 700 points.

Manning helped the offense set a NFL record for third down conversion rate in a season ( 56. 1 %).

The scoring was the same as in the NFL with the addition of a drop kick field goal worth four points during normal play or two points as a post-touchdown conversion.

Thus, if Team A has the first possession of overtime and scores a touchdown and converts their kick ( thus being 7 points ahead of Team B ), Team A would then kick off to Team B ( In the NFL, the game would have ended with the touchdown, without a conversion being attempted ).

The success rate for two-point conversions is less than 40 percent in the NFL and college, making the two-point conversion attempt a risky tactic ; thus it is usually attempted only when two points will help the team but one point will not.

Pace helped Rams convert 13-of-16 fourth down attempts, second highest fourth-down conversion percentage in the NFL ( 68. 4 %).

New ideas were successfully tested, like using the two-point conversion rule also on the professional field before adopting it in the NFL in 1994.

Tupa scored the first two-point conversion in NFL history, running in a faked extra point attempt for the Browns in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals in the first week of the 1994 season.

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At the opening of the formal bid process, West Ham United were considered favourites once they reversed from their initial opposition to keeping the running track as well as planning a £ 100m conversion to create a 60, 000 capacity venue, which would also host international football, international athletics, as well as Essex County Cricket Club, international Twenty20 cricket matches, NFL games and Live Nation events.

* The NFL rules become the standardized rules for the merged league, which included dropping the AFL's two-point conversion.

He was the last player to score a one-point conversion on a run in the NFL ; the conversion was changed to two points in 1994.

An example of this was a 1985 NFL game in which William Perry, wearing number 72 and normally a defensive lineman, was made an eligible receiver on an offensive play, and successfully caught a touchdown pass attempt.

After kicker Gary Anderson, who had just completed the first perfect regular season in NFL history ( not missing a single extra point or field goal attempt the entire year ), missed a 38-yard field goal attempt with less than 2 minutes remaining, the Falcon's ensuing drive tied the game.

That first season started with a 94 yard opening kickoff return for a touchdown by John Gilliam ( No other team in NFL history has ever returned a kickoff for a touchdown on its first attempt as a new franchise ), but the Saints lost that game 27 – 13 to the Los Angeles Rams at Tulane Stadium.

Although the method may vary, studies that attempt to rank the 32 fan bases in the NFL consistently place Eagles fans among the best in the league, noting their " unmatched fervor.

The Bears were penalized five yards for delay of game, but according to NFL rules, ten seconds should have also been run off the clock during such a deliberate clock-stopping attempt in the final two minutes of a half.

He called on kicker Garo Yepremian to attempt a 42-yard field goal in what is now remembered as one of the most famous blunders in NFL lore: " Garo's Gaffe ".

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the former WFL franchise Memphis Southmen / Memphis Grizzlies sued the NFL in an attempt to be accepted as an expansion franchise.

* Memphis Southmen ( had started out as the Toronto Northmen, but moved to Memphis, Tennessee before the start of the season ) 1974 – 1975 / Memphis Grizzlies 1975 (" official " team change name to Grizzlies after league folded in attempt to join the NFL ).

Hayes has been credited by many with forcing the NFL to develop a zone defense and the bump and run to attempt to contain him.

ABC and Paramount would attempt to find one more hit lead in for Monday Night Football with The Marshal in 1995, but the series was cancelled at the end of the NFL season and Paramount and ABC's longstanding relationship withered away as there were no Paramount-produced series on ABC that lasted longer than a season on the network before either cancellation or relocation to another network.

* On November 4, 2007, Antonio Cromartie of the San Diego Chargers returned a 57-yard field goal attempt, which was short, 109 yards for a touchdown, which became the longest play in NFL history.

Luckman led the NFL in yards per attempt an NFL record seven times, including a record five consecutive years from 1939 to 1943, and led the NFL in passing yards three times.

Vanderjagt's streak of 42 consecutive successful field goal attempts, the longest in NFL history ( the league does not include postseason or Pro Bowl games when compiling streaks ), ended on September 9, 2004 when he missed a 48-yard attempt against the New England Patriots.

In the 2005 NFL Playoffs, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Vanderjagt missed a 46-yard field goal attempt wide right with 18 seconds remaining, when the Colts were behind 21-18, costing the Colts a chance at overtime and ending the team's season.

* NFL ( 1902 ), the first attempt at forming a national professional football league, in 1902

In late February 2008, Brandon and former NFL defensive back Anthony Newman were the victims of an extortion attempt.

Only a failed last-second field goal attempt kept the team from its first NFL championship ( see K-Scott Norwood ' Wide Right ').

However, this attempt caused the city of Memphis to decide on expanding the stadium, in the hopes of luring an NFL franchise to the city.

Holmes sat out the 2006 season with a neck injury, and after a brief comeback attempt in 2007 retired from the NFL.

In the NFL running backs must wear numbers 20 to 49, tight ends must wear numbers 80 to 89 ( or 40 to 49 if the numbers 80 to 89 have been exhausted ), and wide receivers must wear numbers 10 to 19 or 80 to 89.

Their defense, considered the most intimidating in the NFL, was anchored by a defensive line nicknamed the " Purple People Eaters ", consisting of defensive tackles Gary Larsen and Alan Page, and defensive ends Carl Eller and Jim Marshall.

After passing through Charlottetown it ends at Wood Islands where a ferry route ( operated by Northumberland Ferries Limited, or NFL ) crosses the Northumberland Strait to Caribou, Nova Scotia ( near Pictou ).

The win ends their NFL record 26-game losing streak encompassing the entire 1976 season and the first 12 games in 1977.

* Strike – First regular season strike by NFL players ends on November 16 after 57 days.

Former head coach Jon Gruden referred to such multi-dimensional tight ends as " jokers ", calling Winslow the first joker in the NFL.

In the 90's, Shannon Sharpe helped the position evolve to the point where the tight end was integral to a teams success and changed the way tight ends where utilized by teams, evidenced by him becoming the first tight end in NFL history with over 10, 000 career receiving yards.

Five of the NFL's 15 players with the most receptions that year were tight ends, the most in NFL history.

In the National Football League ( NFL ), tight ends are usually larger and slower than a wide receiver, and therefore able to block more effectively.

In the NFL, numbering regulations state that tight ends must wear numbers 80-89 or, when those are unavailable, 40-49.

In a 2006 interview for WWE, Verne's son Greg Gagne mentioned that wrestling was a much better paying job at the time than playing football ( as recent as the 1970s, it was not uncommon for NFL players to have a second job during the NFL offseason to help make ends meet ), and as a result Verne chose wrestling over football.

Since the debut of the United Football League in 2009, the UFL has acted as an unofficial feeder league to the NFL, benefiting from the fact that the UFL ends its season a month ( two months beginning in 2011 ) before the end of the NFL regular season.

Ben Terrence Coates ( born August 16, 1969 in Greenwood, South Carolina ) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League and former CIAA football coach and former NFL tight ends coach.

* 2002: Puma ends tenure as an on-field supplier for the NFL, when Reebok is announced as the league's sole official uniform and apparel sponsor for 10 years ( 2002-2011 )

Although NCAA rules have effectively abolished this ( as the ball carrier dropping to the ground immediately ends the play ), other codes for North American football, such as the NFL, still allow ( as one way for the ball to become dead ) for the runner to cry " down ".

Another episode " Damn Bundys " featured Al selling his soul to the devil ( played by Robert Englund ) in order to lead the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl as the oldest rookie in NFL history ; Al scores the touchdown and ends up in hell with his family and neighbors for 300 years.

He has served as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills, the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the tight ends coach for the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.

Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis ( who recorded 9. 5 sacks and forced 4 fumbles ) were widely considered to be among the best pass-rushing defensive ends in the NFL.

Although he was the eighth tight end taken in the 2002 NFL Draft, McMichael ’ s receiving totals ranked second among all NFL rookie tight ends in 2002, trailing only the New York Giants ’ Jeremy Shockey-the 14th overall pick in the draft.

McMichael emerged as one of the top receiving tight ends in the league in his second NFL season, starting all 16 games and finishing with 49 receptions for 598 yards and two touchdowns.

Few defensive ends in the NFL were more dominant than Strahan from 1997 to 2005.