Not quite.
In soccer, hockey and such, there are no scoring variables. If you make the craziest, most insane shot, or win in a tie breaker, it's still 1 point, regardless.
In Basketball and Football, that's not the case.
In football, you can say its really 2-1, but you are very wrong. Touchdowns are only one of the many variations of scoring in football:
1pt - Point After Touchdown. After a touchdown is made, the placekicker, or quarterback can kick for an additional point.
2pt - Two Point Conversion. In order to gain an edge (or make up for various failures along the way), a team, after successfully getting a touchdown, may attempt to score another touchdown from the 5 yard line.
3pt - Field Goal. Similar to rugby, if a team cannot manage a touchdown in 3 succuessive plays not gaining 10 total yards, you may use the placekicker or quarterback to kick the ball into the Field Goal. If succuessful, from any distance, nets you 3 points.
6pt - Touchdown. A team succuessfully has an active player in the endzone with the ball, without being tackled (to blow the play dead).
So your very, very wrong. There are 4 types of scores in football (with about 500 variations on how to actually score any given type), and atleast 3 kinds in basketball.
Such as:
1pt - Freethrow. A freethrow is an un-inhibited (by other players) chance to score up to 2 points due to a foul being committed against you.
2pt - "Goal" - this is where the ball, from inside the shot arc, is placed into the basket. The ball can be slam dunked, from the field, or any other means inside the paint. Also, "goal tending" the act of intentionally inhibiting another team from scoring a given goal, also is another way of scoring 2 points.
3pt - 3 Point Throw. A 3 point throw is when a player succuessfully lands a goal inside the basket from outside of the shot arc (which I think is 5 meters?).
And again, in soccer there is only 1 goal. 1 point no matter how, what, or whom you use. Basketball and Football are not this way. Learn before you comment. The American point system is based on the individual, and team effort placed into scoring, whereas soccer does not. If a player, or play is very good, skilled, smart, or anything else, will tend to score higher-value points than the other team. Go watch a game of Football where one team only kicks field goals: they rarely win. If a basketball team can play outside the perimiter, and shoot lots of 3 pointers, they tend to win alot (look at the OSU-Florida National Championship game. OSU totally failed at converting their 3pt shots, and lost very easily to a team that could)
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
