Before the 1994 season, the National Football League allowed only a one-point conversion attempt following a touchdown. This point-after-touchdown (PAT) is scored by kicking the ball through the uprights. Starting in 1994, the NFL allowed the touchdown-scoring team to choose to “convert” the six-point TD to seven points with a one-point conversion kick or to eight points with a scoring run or pass completion.

Previously, colleges, some high schools, and the American Football League had the two-point conversion. The NFL and AFL merged, on paper, in 1966, and played as one league starting in 1970, when the two-point conversion disappeared from US professional football.

In the first week after the two-point conversion became possible in the NFL, Tom Tupa, a punter, placekicker, and quarterback, lined up for a one-point conversion attempt that turned out to be a “fake”. Instead, he ran the ball into the end zone for two points.

Drafted in 1988 by the Phoenix Cardinals, Tupa was a backup quarterback for his first season. In season two, he saw more action at quarterback and also punted for the team. He was the Cardinals’ placekick holder in 1990 and the first-string quarterback in 1991. By 1994, he had been with the Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns.

Cut by the Browns, he did not play in 1993, but was rehired by Cleveland for the 1994 season. That season, he scored three two-point conversions, earning the nickname, “Two-Point Tupa”.

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