Originally coined by a sports writer in Sports Illustrated's Mitch Goldich in 2024, the term Octopus is used to describe a football player scoring a touchdown and then scoring the subsequent two-point conversion.It was invented by a writer from Sports Illustrated. When a player scores a touchdown and two-point conversion consecutively, it's called an octopus. The two-point conversion was first added back in 1994. Before the beginning of the 2024 season, the octopus had occurred 169 times in history.
