It was halftime in the Kentucky Vs. Florida football game when ESPN reported the score to be “1-17”. Yes this was incorrect (correct score was 0-17), but any Kentucky Football fan knows you take em’ where you can get em’. For the first five minutes of the game, I actually thought Kentucky has a chance to keep it close. The defense actually made the trip to Gainesville and the offense was moving the ball. Then reality set in as Morgan Newton missed throws to receivers who were being guarded by ghost (there has to be a reason he missed those throws… right? Maybe he’s a Medium?). Those missed passes quickly turned into interceptions and you know the rest of the store.
So, if ESPN wants to give us a point at halftime, I say take it!
And yes, it is possible to score only one point. As the Wiki clearly documents.
Deadspin broke this story and their explanation of how this would happen is below….
However many of you wrote it in claiming that the score was not only incorrect, but necessarily incorrect, because a team could never have one point. Not so. It would take a blocked extra point, a recovery by the defensive team, a run all the way to the opposite endzone, a fumble, a recovery of that fumble by the kicking team, and then a tackle of that player in the opposite endzone towards which the ball was being rushed.
Has a safety on a blocked extra point ever happened? No.. But every Kentucky Football fan knows that if it did happen, It would be while trying to break “the streak” against Florida in the closing seconds of a tie game, where Florida is the team that gets the safety and wins the game.
Why you ask? Because that’s Kentucky Football!
