Would love to see this, it's been years since there has been a successful one. 1976 to be exact. 3 points as it's like a field goal, but no holder and no defensive rush.
CFL is alive and well. You get 1 point for a rouge (taking a knee in your end zone- its a touchback in nfl but the yardage costs you a point in cfl). Many exciting last second plays on a field goal try in a tie game. Defense has to run out a short kick to save goving up a point. The player recovering in the end zone can try and kick it out and the offence can try and kick it back in.
If you call a fair catch on a kickoff/punt, you then get a free attempt at an unblocked field goal. It's super rare for them to even be attempted and even more rare for it to be successful.
A drop kick is just an alternate method of kicking field goals or extra points (the same way that you can pass, rush or return for a TD). It's not it's own way to score.
So is a fair catch kick. They are all field goals. A field goal can be scored by a place kick or a drop kick. A fair catch kick gives you the option to take a place kick or a drop kick to make the field goal. I believe the reason a Fair Catch Kick falls into a different category is because it is not done within the set of 4 downs as a drop kick or a place kick for a field goal is done. It is technically a field goal though, so there is an argument both ways. Edit 5 years later - Now that I think about it, it is different also because there is no opposition to the kick "free kick" (defense 10 yards back from line of scrimmage) as there would be on other field goal attempts. So it is squarely its own way of scoring, but still a field goal. You can also get a running start on the kick, adding some distance, but probably losing some accuracy.
Okay, but a fair-catch kick is really just another form of a field goal. Counting it separately is like saying a pick-6 or other defensive scoring is different from a touchdown.
It actually is considered by the rulebook to be a completely separate kind of kick - very similar to (but also distinct from) a free kick. It can be either a drop kick (like a punt) or a place kick with a holder, and the defense has to line up 10 yards back of the ball spot (thus eliminating the possibility of a block and allowing for more of a line-drive trajectory on the kick). There have been several attempts of greater than 70 yards - I would guess that if one of them had been successful, it still would not be counted as the longest field goal in NFL history (currently at 64 yards).
Agreed. Liverpool have never won the Premiership title, though they excelled in the old First Division and in Europe. Manchester City have won the Premiership twice.
It's more of a historical term. There were several years in a row where Arsenal, Chelsea, Man United, and Liverpool finished 1st-4th in the League is how the term got started, I think
From 1994-95 thru 2008-09, a span of 15 seasons, here are the Top 4 finishes by club:
Manchester United (15)
Arsenal (13)
Liverpool (12)
Chelsea (8)
Others: Newcastle (4), Leeds (3), Aston Villa (1), Blackburn (1), Everton (1), Nottingham Forest (1).
During this same time period, Tottenham never finished higher than 5th (twice), and Manchester City never finished higher than 8th (once) while also being relegated twice.
So from the early stages of the Premier League, it was pretty clear that there were 4 clubs....and then everybody else. And so the moniker stuck.
BTW, re: Manchester City "buying" titles, if you're going to levy that against City, you need to include Chelsea too. Abramovich's billions is what brought titles to the Blues.
I agree that the injections of large amounts of cash tends to result in more title success. In those terms it's hardly surprising that the richest club for most of the period has been Manchester United.
I feel like you shouldn't just take "Manchester" for Manchester United. I can foresee many United and City fans getting offended over being lumped together, even though City's not on the quiz.
Very difficult quiz for a British person, although funnily enough I got the most obscure answer, Fair catch kick, by accident when I typed "free kick" because I know jack all about American sport
I have hardly ever heard anyone in here in Canada call them the 'Canadiens' (at least in Ontario) even if that is their name. 'Habs' is way more common, and I always wish it was accepted. I would only accept 'Leafs' where other short forms are accepted, but 'Habs' is just so ubiquitous here.
Why does "front crawl" always become "freestyle"? Just because most people will do front crawl in a freestyle race doesn't mean they're the same stroke... does it?
Correct. Front Crawl is a stroke. Freestyle is an event. Whilst you should probably still accept freestyle for front crawl, the latter should be the primary answer.
Australian, so I really don't know much, other than watching my son play gridiron here, but isn't an extra point also a conversion...just a one point conversion. I thought that after a touch down, you could run it in, or kick a goal, both being conversions, one worth one point and the other worth two. Do I have that wrong (entirely possible) but if not, why are they not both considered conversions, which is what I typed.
I forgot Spain and England, and what is a fair catch kick. Is it the same thing as what happened during the jets game where the bills kickoff return guy failed to pick up the ball thinking it's a touchback and the jets grabbed it in the end zone and scored 7 points in 0:00?
There is a highly theoretical one-point safety in college football, wherein a team attempting a two-point conversion might fumble the ball, which would be recovered by the other team and run all the way into their end zone, then tackled by the other team. The defending team would thus be awarded one point. (This has never happened, but it is included in the official rulebook.)
A one-point safety in college football happens when a team blocks an extra point attempt and carries the ball back into their own end zone and is then stopped in their end zone. The team that attempted the extra point is awarded one point for a safety.
QM you might want to rethink the title of this quiz. Six of the eleven categories are about sports with virtually no presence outside North America. A warning in the title that it's very US/Canadian centric would be nice. Or heck, a tad more varierty in the sports you pick would be even nicer, but I'll be realistic and just ask for a US centric addition to the title.
Yeah, the quiz would be much improved if it included questions with more or less international following (the ones in the Olympics, mainly). Questions for sports whose following is strictly reduced to North America would be best placed in a specific test.
What about a one-point safety? Its occurs when an extra point is blocked, and the team that blocked it picks it up but gets tackled in the end zone. It's different than a regular two-point safety, so I think it should be on here.
There's also a one point safety. Has happened twice in college football. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_(gridiron_football_score)#Conversion_safeties_(one-point_safeties)
Since, according to Wikipedia, the fair catch kick is technically considered a field goal, I think it would be awesome if you also added the elusive "one point safety" as a separate scoring method for American football.
I agree. If a fair catch kick is considered a different scoring method as a field goal, even though they are worth the same amount of points... then a 1 point safety should certainly be considered different from a 2 point safety.
The concept of a "Big 4" in English football doesn't exist anymore. Maybe change the question to "Top 4 winners of the English Football Premiership" or even "Top 4 winners of English Football Championship Title"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_catch_kick
Given how good punters are these days the odds of fair catching anything in field goal range tend to be pretty slim.
Here is a link
Before the Premier League during the seventies and eighties the 'Big Five' were Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Everton.
In the Premier League for a number of years only Arsenal and Manchester United would have qualified for this elite group.
Manchester United (15)
Arsenal (13)
Liverpool (12)
Chelsea (8)
Others: Newcastle (4), Leeds (3), Aston Villa (1), Blackburn (1), Everton (1), Nottingham Forest (1).
During this same time period, Tottenham never finished higher than 5th (twice), and Manchester City never finished higher than 8th (once) while also being relegated twice.
So from the early stages of the Premier League, it was pretty clear that there were 4 clubs....and then everybody else. And so the moniker stuck.
BTW, re: Manchester City "buying" titles, if you're going to levy that against City, you need to include Chelsea too. Abramovich's billions is what brought titles to the Blues.
A one-point safety in college football happens when a team blocks an extra point attempt and carries the ball back into their own end zone and is then stopped in their end zone. The team that attempted the extra point is awarded one point for a safety.