Well, let me tell you somethin’ about this football stuff. Them fellas runnin’ around, throwin’ that ball, tryin’ to score. Sometimes they score a whole bunch, and sometimes, well, sometimes they just don’t score much at all. You’re askin’ about the lowest scorin’ game, huh? That means the one where they barely got any points.
Lowest scorin’ games, huh? Seems like a waste of time if you ask me. You go to all that trouble, runnin’ and jumpin’, and then you don’t even get the ball over the line much. But folks keep track of these things, so I guess it must be important to somebody.
Now, I heard tell that way back when, before I was even born, they had games where nobody scored at all. Can you believe that? Zero to zero! They call it a tie, a 0-0 tie. Imagine that! All them people watchin’, and nobody gets to cheer for a score. They say it happened a lot, like 73 times! But that was a long, long time ago, before all this fancy TV stuff. The last time was in 1943, I think. That’s what they told me, anyway.
- They say since they started this Super Bowl thing in 1970, things changed a bit.
- Scorin’ got a little higher, but there were still some low ones.
- 20 teams, they say, got shut out, meanin’ they didn’t score a single point. The Panthers, they did it twice! Bless their hearts.
But the real low-scorers, the ones you’re probably interested in, well, there’s this game back in ‘77. Atlanta Falcons and the Buffalo Bills. Three to nothin’! Bills won, three to zero. Can you imagine? Three measly points! I bet them folks in the stands were bored outta their minds. Three points! That ain’t much more than nothin’.
They tell me it ain’t happened too often since then. Only a few times in all them years. One time, Pittsburgh beat Miami 3-0 in 2007. That was the third time in 40 years! Seems like these low-scoring games are pretty rare these days. Folks like to see them points, you know? Makes it excitin’.
Now, this fella told me somethin’ funny. He said you can’t have certain scores in football, like 1-1 or 2-1. Said somethin’ about the rules, how you score points. Makes sense, I guess. You get a field goal, that’s three points right there. A touchdown with the extra point, that’s seven. So, you ain’t gonna get no one or two points just by themselves.
So, there you have it. Them low-scorin’ games. Folks tied at zero, teams gettin’ shut out, and that one game, three to nothin’. It all sounds kinda silly to me, all that runnin’ around for just a few points. But that’s football for ya. Sometimes it’s a barn burner, and sometimes, well, sometimes it’s just… slow.
Anyway, that’s what I know about it. Not sure why you wanna know about low scores, but there it is. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go make some supper. All this talk about football ain’t gonna fill my belly.
And that, my friend, is the lowdown on low-scoring football games. It ain’t pretty, but it’s part of the game.
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