Man, I gotta share this with y’all. I was digging into some NFL history the other day, specifically about the lowest scores ever recorded. It’s a wild ride, let me tell you.
So, I started poking around, trying to figure out what the absolute lowest score in an NFL game was. Turns out, there were a bunch of games throughout history, 73 to be exact, that ended with a big ol’ goose egg on the scoreboard – 0-0. Crazy, right? But, get this, that was all in the old days.
I focused on the modern era, the Super Bowl era which started in 1970. Since then, no team has ever been completely shut out. We’re talking about a 3-0 final score. I found out this has happened six times in the modern NFL. I was glued to the screen, man, reading about these low-scoring battles.
Then I stumbled upon something even crazier. Apparently, there were a few games that ended 2-0. That’s right, just a single safety determining the outcome. But, we haven’t seen one of those since 1938. After the NFL and AFL merged, the lowest combined score we’ve seen is three points.
- I spent hours going through these records.
- It made me appreciate the offensive side of the game, you know?
- I mean, imagine watching a game where the only points come from a safety or a single field goal.
But it got me thinking about the rules of the game, too. The NFL has some specific scoring rules in place, which makes certain scores impossible. For instance, you’ll never see a game end 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, or 7-1. I never realized that before!
Discovering “Scorigami”
Then I learned this wild term: “scorigami.” Some guy named Jon Bois started charting all the NFL scores, and he noticed these gaps, these scores that have never happened. That 43-8 Super Bowl win by the Seahawks over the Broncos? That was a “scorigami.” A unique score that had never occurred before in NFL history.
This whole deep dive into the lowest NFL scores, it was a real eye-opener. It got me thinking about how much the game has changed, the strategy, the rules, everything. Plus, I got to learn a cool new word. “Scorigami,” who knew?