Well, let me tell ya, talkin’ ’bout them football games, some of ’em are real snoozers, real low-scoring, you know? Makes ya wonder why they even bothered playin’. I heard tell of some games where they barely scored at all. Like, can ya believe it? Lowest scoring football game, that’s what they call ’em. Sounds ’bout right, I reckon.
Now, them fancy folks in the Premier League, they got their own share of low scores. Heard someone say the lowest they seen was somethin’ like 10-0. That’s still a lotta points if ya ask me, but I guess for them high-falutin’ fellas, that’s low. They even got some 9-1 games and such. But we ain’t talkin’ ’bout them fancy leagues, are we? We talkin’ ’bout the real low-down, nitty-gritty scores.
They say in the NFL, which is the big football league ’round here, the lowest score ya can get while still scorin’ somethin’ is 3-0. Can ya imagine? Three measly points! They say it’s happened a few times, six times to be exact, in the modern era, whatever that means. Seems like a waste of a perfectly good afternoon to me. Just runnin’ around, pushin’ and shovin’, and then barely gettin’ any points on the board. Humph!
And get this, way back when, before all the fancy rules and helmets, they had games even lower than that. Like, 2-0! Can ya believe it? Two points! That’s like, what, a safety or somethin’? I don’t even know. They say the last time that happened was ages ago, in 1938, between the Packers and the Bears. Those fellas probably played with leather helmets, I betcha. Probably tougher than them fellas today with all their fancy padding.
- 3-0 scores: Happened six times in the modern NFL. Seems like a lot of runnin’ for nothin’.
- 2-0 scores: Happened way back when, before folks knew how to play real football, I reckon.
- 0-0 ties: Yep, you heard that right. No points at all. Last time was in 1943, during the war, I think. Probably too busy fightin’ to worry ’bout football.
Now, them 0-0 games, those are somethin’ else. They call ’em ties, but I call ’em a waste of time. Imagine sittin’ there, watchin’ for hours, and nobody scores a single point. I’d be askin’ for my money back, that’s for sure. The last one of them was way back in 1943, between the New York Giants and the Detroit Lions. Heard they barely even got any first downs or yards. Just a whole lotta puntin’ and not much else, I guess.
So, yeah, when they talk about lowest scoring football game, they could be talkin’ about a bunch of different things. But mostly, they mean them 3-0 games in the NFL. Seems like a pretty low score to me. I mean, I could probably score three points if ya gave me enough tries and them fellas weren’t lookin’. But hey, I ain’t complainin’. At least it ain’t them high-scoring games where they just run up the score. That ain’t no fun neither. It’s all about the balance, I say. A little bit of scorin’, a little bit of defense, and a whole lotta grit. That’s what makes a good football game, even if it is a low-scoring one.
And then there’s the opposite, you know? Them games where they score so many points ya can’t even keep track. Like that one game, the Raiders and the Oilers, they say scored over 100 points combined. 52-49, somethin’ like that. Now that’s a lot of points! Too many if ya ask me. Gives ya a headache just thinkin’ about it. But that ain’t what we’re talkin’ ’bout. We’re talkin’ low, real low. Like barely nothin’ at all.
So, there ya have it. A little bit about them lowest scoring football games. Not much to ’em, really. Just a bunch of fellas runnin’ around, and not much scorin’ happenin’. But hey, it’s still football, right? And sometimes, even a low-scoring game can be excitin’, in its own way. You gotta watch close, though, or you’ll miss the only three points scored the whole game. Then you’ll be sittin’ there, scratchin’ your head, wonderin’ what happened.