Has there ever been an NFL game without scoring?
Yes, many NFL games have ended 0-0. Per Pro Football Reference, 73 games in pro football history have ended in a 0-0 tie. However, the last time it happened was almost 80 years ago, meaning there have been no scoreless ties in the Super Bowl era.
So far, 1,075 different final scores have been achieved in NFL history. The lowest possible score is 0-0 and has been achieved 73 times, though the most recent scoreless tie came on Nov. 7, 1943. The most points any team has scored in an NFL game is 73.
5 teams are tied for the fewest points in a win, with 2 points. The first three are the Chicago Bears on September 18, 1938, the Green Bay Packers on October 16, 1932 and the Frankford Yellow Jackets on November 29, 1928.
In the NFL (professional American football) the last 0–0 tie was in 1943 between the Detroit Lions and the NY Giants. The score is 14–0 late in the third quarter of an NFL game, why would the trailing team kick a field goal when they will still need two touchdowns to have any chance of winning the game?
A much rarer occurrence is the one-point (or conversion) safety, which can be scored by the offense on an extra point or two-point conversion attempt: these have occurred at least twice in NCAA Division I football since 1996, most recently at the 2013 Fiesta Bowl, though no conversion safeties have occurred since 1940 ...
A 1 point safety is extremely rare, but it can happen. What is a 1 point safety in football? A 1 point safety is when the team trying to score a 2-point conversion or PAT turns the ball over, the defense takes the ball out of the end zone, then gets tackled in the end zone for a safety.
Yes it is. Team A scores a touchdown, but the extra point attempt kick is not only blocked, but blocked and then run to the opposite end zone for an offensive safety , which counts 1 point.
The One-Point Safety
This is a ruling so rare that most football players probably don't even know it exists. A team can register a one-point safety when a defensive player is tackled in his own end zone after snagging the ball following a blocked extra-point attempt.
Among the non-viable outcomes are 1-1, 1-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, and 7-1. Five to 1 is impossible because it can only occur after a field goal and a conventional safety while 7 to 1 is also impossible because a team can only get to 7 after scoring a touchdown by successfully kicking a PAT.
Through the 2008 season there have been two 2-0 games in the NFL: 1) The Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears 2-0 on October 16, 1932. 2) The Chicago Bears defeated the Green Bay Packers 2-0 on September 18, 1938.
Has an NFL team ever scored 70?
The 1950 Los Angeles Rams, the best offensive team in NFL history in terms of average points (466 in 12 games, 38.8 PPG), scored 70 points, one of only three teams to ever do so. The following week, they beat the Detroit Lions 65-24, including an NFL record 41 points in one quarter.
No, an NFL team has never scored 100 points in a game. The Raiders beat the Oilers 52-49 on Sunday to clinch their first division title in 25 years. They were led by quarterback Derek Carr who threw for 447 yards and five touchdowns.

faced off against Walter Johnson High (Bethesda, Md.). The final score was 4-2, in favor of Magruder. The sport was football, not baseball. As reported by the Maryland Gazette, the only points scored by Johnson incredibly came when Magruder took a safety rather than punt from its own 1-yard-line.
Highest NFL score: Washington vs Giants, Nov.
The New York Giants were on the wrong end of this monster score of 72-41 (113 total) back on 27 November 1966, a season in which the Big Apple team should've been called the NY Minnows.
Back in the 1993 AFC wild card round, the Buffalo Bills erased a record-setting 32-point deficit in a 41-38 overtime win against the Houston Oilers. Buffalo fell behind 35-3 early in the third quarter and then reeled off 35 unanswered points to take a 38-35 lead.
What they and the Bulldogs did in the 3-2 final was put on one of the worst football games in the history of the sport. Not bad until you look at the three turnovers that the Tigers had.
There have been only three walkoff safety wins in overtime in NFL history: Minnesota Vikings 23, Los Angeles Rams 21 (November 5, 1989) Chicago Bears 19, Tennessee Titans 17 (November 14, 2004) Miami Dolphins 22, Cincinnati Bengals 20 (November 1, 2013)
Per the Pro Football Hall of Fame website, the last NFL game without penalties was on November 10, 1940: The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Philadelphia Eagles 7-3.
Touchdown: 6 points. Field Goal: 3 points. Safety: 2 points. Try after touchdown: 1 point (Field Goal or Safety) or 2 points (Touchdown)
The @Broncos defeated the 49ers 11-10 on #SundayNightFootball to mark only the second game in NFL history with a final score of 11-10. The one other instance was the Steelers over the San Diego Chargers in Week 11, 2008 ... those Steelers went on to win Super Bowl XLIII.
Is dropkick still legal in NFL?
A very rare but legal way to score points in the NFL is via a drop kick field goal. Most people have never heard or thought of such a thing, as it is not a feature in the modern game. It has come back into discussion after an interesting play in Week 14 of the 2022 season.
Now you know a great deal about the other team's score: since overtime in the NFL is sudden death, and since the only way to score 7 points is by a touchdown or the (very unlikely) combination of a field goal and two safeties, you know that the other team must have scored 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, or 13 points.
The most points scored by a single team, and the most lopsided final score in college football history, occurred on October 7, 1916 when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222–0. Only two other programs have scored at least 200 points in a single game: King College, now King University, defeated Lenoir 206-0 in 1922 and St.
San Francisco 49ers 55 - 10 win over Denver Broncos during Super Bowl XXIV on January 28, 1990.
The 2007 New England Patriots were the first NFL team to achieve a perfect 16-0 regular season record, and seemed destined to go down as the greatest team ever until their stunning defeat in Super Bowl XLII.
Since the National Football League began in 1920, only one team has played a perfect season (both regular season and playoffs): the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who won all fourteen of their regular season games and three postseason games, including Super Bowl VII, to finish the season 17–0–0.
The Patriots added postseason victories over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the divisional playoff round and a 21-12 win over the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship Game to run the streak to an amazing 18-0. In doing so, the Patriots became the first team ever to go 18-0 in a season.
The other times it happened were 2008 (10-0 Tennessee, 0-10 Detroit), 2007 (10-0 New England, 0-10 Miami), 1984 (10-0 Miami, 0-10 Buffalo and Houston), and 1975 (10-0 Minnesota and 0-10 San Diego). In all, 17 teams started 10-0 in the Super Bowl era before the Steelers did it this season.
Quarterback Drew Bledsoe threw for 426 yards and three touchdowns on 70 — yes, 70! — pass attempts. Bledsoe set an NFL record for passes thrown in a single game that day that still stands 28 years later.
On December 8, 1940, the Chicago Bears trounce the Washington Redskins (now known as the Washington Football Team) in the National Football League (NFL) Championship by a score of 73-0, the largest margin of defeat in NFL history.
Has an NFL team scored 50 points in a game?
by O'Shea Jackson Jr. On a Monday evening last November, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a pair of 9-1 teams faced off in what became an instant classic – the first game in NFL history that both teams scored over 50 points.
The lowest scoring NFL game of all time took place on November 26th 2007 at Heinz Field when the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Miami Dolphins by a score of just 3 to 0. The three points were scored from a field goal by kicker Jeff Read in the fourth quarter.
Perhaps the best way to line up against 4-4-2 is by playing a 4-5-1 shape. This allows you to overrun the opposition midfield, while maintaining plenty of width both for attacking purposes and in order to stop wide midfielders from causing problems via counter-attacks.
The 4-4-2 is a formation in football that is made up of three distinct lines. The back line of four defenders comprises two centre-backs and two full-backs. Ahead of them, a midfield unit of four features two players in the middle and one on each side.
The First man to score 87 goals in one match . Even the Referee was scared to book him . Oh yes and he has a brother who currently plays for Crystal Palace.
Matchup: | The AFL's New York Jets (11-3) vs the NFL's Baltimore Colts (13-1) |
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Date Played: | January 12, 1969 |
Stadium and City: | Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida |
1. Consecutive Super Bowl losses (4) The Buffalo Bills have the most unbreakable record in NFL History. Buffalo made it to four consecutive Super Bowls during the years of 1990-1993.
The Washington Redskins have scored the most points by a team in a game, with 72 points versus the Giants on November 27, 1966.
The only three NFL teams in history to lose all their games were the 2017 Cleveland Browns (0-16), the 2008 Detroit Lions (0-16) and the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-14). So far, no team has gone 0-17, since the league has only expanded to 17 regular season games last year.
Has there ever been a 100 point football game?
In college football, games in which 100 points are scored by a single team are rare, especially since 1940. In the post-World War II era, it is considered in poor form to run up the score of lopsided games. There have been only three occurrences since 1970, and just one since 2000.
Throughout the entire course of NFL history, 73 games have ended 0-0. However, that has not happened since the Giants and Detroit Lions did so in 1943. Similarly, five NFL games in history have finished with a score of 2-0.
But it did happen. George Barber's team scored 200 points, achieved the Holy Grail.
Washington Redskins 51 - 7 win over Los Angeles Rams NFC Divisional football game Sunday, Jan. 2, 1984 in Washington.
Longest Losing Streak: 26 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976-77)
In their debut year, the Bucs became the first team to go winless in a 14-game season, a feat since passed by the 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns going 0-16. Then, in 1977, the Bucs lost their first 14 games for an astronomical 26 straight defeats.
Other NFL perfect regular seasons
Apart from the 1972 Dolphins, three NFL teams have completed undefeated and untied regular seasons: the 1934 Chicago Bears, the 1942 Chicago Bears, and the 2007 New England Patriots.
NFL Teams with no wins in a season (8 or more games)
Most losses in a single season. Detroit was the first non-expansion team to lose every game in a full season since World War II.