{"id":355820,"date":"2025-12-19T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355820\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:24:08","slug":"how-seahawks-game-winning-2-point-conversion-made-two-pieces-of-nfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355820\/","title":{"rendered":"How Seahawks’ game-winning 2-point conversion made two pieces of NFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Seahawks’ game-winning 2-point conversion made two pieces of NFL history<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Seattle Seahawks<\/a> won an overtime thriller in Week 16 against the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>. Not only are the Seahawks now in the driver’s seat for the NFC West, but they have a clear path to the 1 seed and a first-round bye.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

They’re only in this position thanks to an aggressive decision from Mike Macdonald to go for two after their overtime touchdown. If they missed the two-point try, they would’ve lost. But Eric Saubert caught the two-point try and won the game for Seattle.<\/p>\n

As insider Adam Schefter<\/a> and analyst Ben Solak<\/a> shared per ESPN Research, this game-winning two-point try made two pieces of NFL history for the Seahawks.<\/p>\n

Seahawks’ game-winning 2-point try makes two pieces of NFL history<\/p>\n

Schefter shared that, per ESPN Research, “The Seahawks became the first NFL team to ever win an overtime game on a 2-point conversion.”<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

This is a simple piece of NFL history, but it’s all the more impressive. While the 2-point try hasn’t always been around in the NFL, and for most of overtime’s existence, a touchdown would end the game, it’s still a worthwhile record.<\/p>\n

Saubert’s game-winning 2-point conversion is the first such play in NFL history, but with the new ruleset, this likely won’t be the final time that a team will win a game on a two-point try at the end of a game.<\/p>\n

Solak pointed out an overall facet of the game for the Seahawks, which proves just how improbable this comeback win was for Seattle.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

More:\u00a0Seahawks at risk of losing transformational coordinator for Giants HC job<\/a><\/p>\n

“According to ESPN Research,” Solak writes. “The Seahawks are only the fifth team in NFL history to convert three 2-point conversions in the fourth quarter + overtime, and they are the first team to win the game while doing so.”<\/p>\n

Making so many 2-point tries – three in this OT thriller – is a rare feat on its own. But, for all of those attempts to come in the fourth-quarter, and led to a win, is nothing short of improbable.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

As if it wasn’t enough, the wild Sam Darnold lateral, which turned into a Zach Charbonnet fumble recovery in the endzone, was about as wild a play as the NFL could have on a 2-point try.<\/p>\n

This was a history-making NFL game in many ways, and the 2-point tries for the Seahawks made this stunning 38-37 game one for the ages.<\/p>\n

More Seahawks News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Seahawks’ game-winning 2-point conversion made two pieces of NFL history originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[7580,49,48,118094,153911,1749,87458,514,95774,90611,153912,1756,1739,82,81771],"class_list":["post-355820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-adam-schefter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eric-saubert","tag-espn-research","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mike-macdonald","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-history","tag-overtime-game","tag-overtime-thriller","tag-sam-darnold","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-zach-charbonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}