Has an 0-2 team ever won the Super Bowl?
Only the 1993 Dallas Cowboys, 2001 New England Patriots and 2007 Giants won a Super Bowl after starting 0-2.
Six teams since 1979 have made the playoffs after an 0-3 start. Of the 158 teams that started 0-3 between 1990-2022, four managed to get into the postseason. Only one 0-3 team has won a playoff game, and no such team has reached the Super Bowl.
From 1990-2022, 265 teams started 0-2. Thirty of those teams he made the playoffs, or about 11%. The Cincinnati Bengals pulled it off last season. Jeff Kerr, CBS Sports NFL Writer, has researched this very topic.
There have been 73 games in pro football history that ended in a 0-0 tie, according to Pro Football Reference. But it's been 80 years since the last one, meaning there's yet to be a scoreless tie in the Super Bowl era.
How many NFL teams won the Super Bowl after starting 0-2? Only three NFL teams overcame the 0-2 hurdle to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
Similarly, five NFL games in history have finished with a score of 2-0.
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The '72 Dolphins finished with the NFL's first and only perfect season, winning Super Bowl VII after going 14-0 in the regular season, but the Tom Brady-led Patriots lost Super Bowl XLII despite going 16-0 in the regular season.
Are we witnessing the first team to go 16-0 and eventually hoist the Lombardi Trophy? The '72 Dolphins went undefeated on the way to winning their first Super Bowl in January of 1973.
Of the 103 teams to start 0-4, a single club made the postseason. Only the 1992 San Diego Chargers began 0-4 and made the playoffs, finishing 11-5 and losing in the Divisional Round.
Since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, a total of 407 teams have started with an 0-2 mark (that number does not include the nine from this current 2023 NFL season). And of those 407, just 39 have made the NFL Playoffs, the most recent being the 2022 Cincinnati Bengals, which comes out to 9.58 percent.
How often do 0-2 teams make the playoffs?
Going back to 1990, only 31 of the 270 teams that started 0-2 in the regular season reached the playoffs. That's a slim success rate of 11.5%. Going 1-1, at least, is not the end of the world, but losing both out of the gate makes things dire.
The St. Louis Cardinals (now Arizona Cardinals) and Washington (now Washington Commanders) are tied for the dubious record of longest playoff drought in NFL history. The Cardinals (1949-1974) and Washington (1946-1971) each went 25 years without earning a playoff berth.
- Arizona Cardinals.
- Atlanta Falcons.
- Buffalo Bills.
- Carolina Panthers.
- Cincinnati Bengals.
- Cleveland Browns.
- Detroit Lions.
- Houston Texans.
Scored by the offense
In American football, if a team attempting an extra point or two-point conversion (officially known in the rulebooks as a try) scores what would normally be a safety, that attempting team is awarded one point. This is commonly known as a conversion safety or one-point safety.
1982 players' strike
In 1982, players began a 57-day strike following the completion of Week 2 of the regular season. As a result of the impasse, games were simply canceled until a settlement was reached (ultimately, Weeks 3 to 10).
1. Arizona Cardinals, 76 years. The Cardinals have never won a Super Bowl but they did win the 1947 NFL championship, giving them the longest championship drought in all North American Sports at 76 years.
The Bills have the distinction of being the only team to advance to four consecutive Super Bowls between 1990 and 1993, but also the regrettable distinction of losing all four of them.
The Buffalo Bills went to 5 AFC Championships and 4 Super Bowls between 1988 and 1993. Would the 1988 team have had the best chance to win the Lombardi Trophy had they reached the Super Bowl?
What Is the Highest-Scoring Game in NFL History? It's hard to imagine many teams combining to score over 100 points, but that's exactly what the Giants and Redskins did in 1966. The defenses couldn't stop either team when the Washington Redskins beat the New York Giants 72-41.
Some teams have come close to joining the '72 Dolphins in football lore. The 2007 New England Patriots famously went 16-0 in the regular season before being upset by the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII.
Who has worst record in NFL?
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers maintain the lowest regular season win–loss percentage (.404), holding a 299–442–1 record through 2022. Being the most-recently founded franchise in the NFL, the Houston Texans have recorded the fewest games played (338) and wins (142).
Between this season and the 2024 season, the Carolina Panthers had the worst record by a team in a season, with a record of 2-14 this season.
January 24, 1982
On this day, the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21 in Super Bowl XVI.
