[Timesink]

A question from those of us with only enough knowledge of football rules to make us dangeorus: After the Rams' TD tieing it 17-17, why didn't they just try to run the ball through and pretty much (hopefully) ending it there, instead of just doing the extra point kick? At least, that's what my father was asking. I said I thought they were only allowed to try running the ball through in certain situations, or else they were allowed to but were afraid of screwing it up somehow and guaranteeing a 17-17 tie instead of the sure-to-win (yeah, right) 18-17 score they ended up with.

Can someone tell me who's right here?

[rdb3]

Going for the two-point conversion instead of the extra-point kick would have been, in Al Gore's words, risky. If they made it, great. They go up by one. Don't make it, you're down by one.

Chalk it up to odds. The smart money was on tieing it up and possibly going into overtime instead of trying for the win right there.