What is the scoring system in American football, and why do the players wear the padding?
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They wear padding because people have been seriously or even in some cases fatally hurt.
6 points for a Touchdown and 1 point for the Point After. A team can choose to play a passing or running play and if the score that they get 2 points. In a field goal you get 3 points if it scores. It's also 2 points for a safety (Sacked in own Endzone), if this happens the defence get the ball.
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The padding is for protection, but thats all I know cos im thick when it come to footy
Who cares?
pads are for protection 6 points for a touchdown 1 point for the point after touch 3 for a field goal and 2 for a safety
i withdraw my previous statement. my new answer is not to worry about it and stay the hell out of my country, and my country's websites.
They wear padding because they are soft.
it protects their dick heads
Football is a contact sport. They try to kill eachother. They score when they get a touchdown or fieldgoal.
Protection, and sometimes that dont even help, I mean look at Chris Simms had to have his Spleen removed after the beating he took from Carolina Panthers.
They wear pads because they hit each other pretty damn hard. It's a very physical game, with lots of injuries despite the pads!
Getting the ball across the goal-line by way of running it in, or passing to someone who is in the end zone is a touchdown, and gives the team 6 points.
The team is then allowed to either kick the ball thru the goal posts, for one extra point (often referred to as the point-after), or to try to run or pass it in again, which is worth two points (called a two-point conversion).
Should the team get to fourth down and hasn't made it into the end zone, they are allowed to try to kick the ball thru the goal posts, for a three point field goal.
If the quarterback is sacked (or perhaps another ball carrier tackled) while he is in the other team's end zone, this is called a safety, and earns the sacking team two points.
They wear padding because Americans hit harder than any other country. 6 points for touchdown, point after touchdown can be kicked through uprights for 1 point or score another touchdown for 2 point conversion, 3 points for a field goal, and 2 points for a safety if a team gets tackled with the ball in their own endzone.
6 3 2 1 first touch down sec. field gold thrid touch back. touch back is 2 tackle them in their own gold line. they wear 2 protect themselfs from getting hurt.
6 points for a touchdown. 3 for a field goal. 2 for a saftey and 2 pt. conversion (obviously). 1 for an extra point. 15 points for doing the worm in the endzone (just kidding). o and they wear padding so they dont get their balls ripped off (believe me it would happen if they didnt wear any pads).
mickey1: its called a saftey not a touchback. a touchback is when u down it in your own endzone at the kickoff (irf u get tackled its a safety and you cant cross the goalline and then turn back and kneel it0.
first off, dumb-*** it goes like this
Touchdown=6 pts
PAT=1pt
Fieldgoal=3 pts
Safety=2 pts
and they where padding becase it is one of the most contact and dangerous sports out there people still break bones with all of it on, ya so just think of it withou it and sorry for callin u a dumbass u might not be from the USA
6 points for the touchdown
1 point for the extra point (kicked)
2 points for a safety or a conversion (extra try after a touchdown)
3 points for a field goal
There might be 1 point awarded if the other team doesn't show up so the box score shows 1-0 instead of 0-0 and having Team A listed as a winner in the final stats. This might be more of a high school thing. That also what they might list if a winning team decides to leave before the offical game has ended. Some high school teams have a night rule where they might offically end the game early on account of the time (curfew laws) or darkness.
In the NFL, the quarterback can also kick the ball (called a drop kick) through the uprights during the extra try (for instance during a blown conversion). Doug Flutie is the only one that has done it since 1941 and he actually practices it. To do this, the quarterback drops the ball on the ground from behind the line of scrimage and then kick it on the bounce through the uprights. It's worth one point.
Players wear padding because of deaths and injuries that have happened in the past. Now that players are worth big money, it's basically to help preserve an owner's investment. These hits are much harder than any other sport and can cause a 250 lbs player to go airborne. Now cheerleading (with airbourne stunts and pyramids) is more dangerous than football (cheerleaders have been killed when crushed or not caught).
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