Dallas Cowboys get slaughtered by the New Orleans Saints

[Will]

nah mate, it IS exciting. any play can get a TD, it's just that you NEED 10 yards (at least). the start-stop thing = tension and release. it's like with football...people who can't see the excitement just fundamentally don't understand the game.

But there's no chance of the defending team scoring 'til they've stopped the opposition moving 10 yards 4 times? Or 'til after the attacking team has scored presumably, which ever happens first?

[SlavikSvensk]

But there's no chance of the defending team scoring 'til they've stopped the opposition moving 10 yards 4 times? Or 'til after the attacking team has scored presumably, which ever happens first?

wrong! a defense can indeed score, but in order to do so, they need to take the ball away. that means they either force an offensive player to drop the ball or they intercept a pass. teams with defenses that score at least once a game usually make it really deep into the playoff tournament at the end of the year. some teams live off of this. the chicago bears, for example, have a defense that routinely scores 2 or 3 times a game and once scored 5 times this year.