[BFritz]

The theory was it would put us up two field goals, so they couldn't kick two field goals and beat us, but there's two flaws in this strategy: 1) there was so little time left that they wouldn't have time to kick a field goal, get the ball back, and kick another field goal. The only justification there was that they could have gotten an onside kick after the first field goal, which wasn't likely; 2) exactly what happened: we go for two, don't get it, then they score, and a last minute drive by us to set up a field goal only ties, instead of putting us up one if we had just kicked the PAT.