Hello. I just became aware of your site today, due to Twitter posts referring to last night's Browns/Steelers playoff game score being a new scorigami. Your site, concept, video, and all are great. I am an instant fan, having both insightful football and math backgrounds, combined.
Regarding the virtually unlikely 6-1 final score scenario, according to NFL Rules, I believe that there is an additional detail that is left out of your explanation, making it even more unlikely. After the defensive player attempts to return the turnover on the two-point conversion the length of the field, and he then turns the ball back over to an offensive player near the offensive player's own goalline, the offensive player would then have to provide the impetus to make the football go backward into his own endzone in order for the play to result in a safety scored by the defense.
If the returning defensive player fumbles the football into the offensive's own end zone and the offensive player recovers it there and is tackled, that is like a touchback and the play would be over with no score. If the offensive player recovers the defensive player's fumble, and the offensive player's momentum from chasing the defensive player down the field results in the offensive player ending up his own end zone with the ball and then he is tackled, I believe would result in no score, as on a regular scrimmage play I think the NFL changed this rule within the last 30-40 years so that a safety would not be scored, but that the offense would be awarded the ball back at the spot of the recovery (in the field of play) and have a first down there. (which does not apply on a conversion try, so the play would be over).
I believe that the recovering offensive player would have to "choose" to back up into his own end zone after recovering the ball, (as if he was trying to avoid a tackle by reversing into his own end zone) for this to result in a defensive 1-point safety.
Hello. I just became aware of your site today, due to Twitter posts referring to last night's Browns/Steelers playoff game score being a new scorigami. Your site, concept, video, and all are great. I am an instant fan, having both insightful football and math backgrounds, combined.
Regarding the virtually unlikely 6-1 final score scenario, according to NFL Rules, I believe that there is an additional detail that is left out of your explanation, making it even more unlikely. After the defensive player attempts to return the turnover on the two-point conversion the length of the field, and he then turns the ball back over to an offensive player near the offensive player's own goalline, the offensive player would then have to provide the impetus to make the football go backward into his own endzone in order for the play to result in a safety scored by the defense.
If the returning defensive player fumbles the football into the offensive's own end zone and the offensive player recovers it there and is tackled, that is like a touchback and the play would be over with no score. If the offensive player recovers the defensive player's fumble, and the offensive player's momentum from chasing the defensive player down the field results in the offensive player ending up his own end zone with the ball and then he is tackled, I believe would result in no score, as on a regular scrimmage play I think the NFL changed this rule within the last 30-40 years so that a safety would not be scored, but that the offense would be awarded the ball back at the spot of the recovery (in the field of play) and have a first down there. (which does not apply on a conversion try, so the play would be over).
I believe that the recovering offensive player would have to "choose" to back up into his own end zone after recovering the ball, (as if he was trying to avoid a tackle by reversing into his own end zone) for this to result in a defensive 1-point safety.