The rarest play in football and the confusing rule behind it

The NFL still has never seen a one-point safety. The one-point safety is the unicorn of American football's scoring system. It's the only way to score a single point at a time, it's only happened a few times in college football but never in the NFL, and it's worth thinking about ad nauseam because it's just so god damn weird. One could argue that due to just how weird it is, the NFL took the most extreme option for avoiding it: they used their rulebook to make it nearly impossible to play out. H...