The Steelers beat the Chargers today by a final score of 11-10.
It’s the first time in the history of the NFL that a game has ended with that score.
(It was a close thing. It looked like the Steelers had scored a last second touchdown to make it 17-10 – a very common final score – but the Chargers were eventually penalized for making an illegal forward pass. The ball was dead at that point and the TD didn’t count.)
I think it’s pretty cool.
I would have liked it a lot better if my Chargers had scored the 11.
It really surprised me when they said that. A not inconceivable situation would be for a team to lead 10 to 3 and for the opponent to score a touch and go for 2.
I really don’t understand the officiating this year. From what I understand, NFL rules state that officials cannot review a play or call a penalty if the next snap has already occurred. How the hell do you give the extra point and not the touchdown it came from?
SDG (4-6) 7 0 0 3 = 10
PIT (7-3) 0 5 3 3 = 11
I didn’t see the game but my understanding is that the Steeler’s touchdown at the end was disallowed and the extra point was never kicked or else it would have ended 10 to 18. The refs admit to blowing the game ending call due to a misunderstanding about which toss during the play was legal. A correct call would have changed the score but not the victor.
The 11 came from 3 field goals and a safety.
What percentage of NFL games have allowed a two point conversion? I remember them instituting the rule a few years ago; had it been previously revoked in the past?
According to Wikipedia, the AFL had 2 points conversions, but the NFL did not, and did not use the rule when they merged. In 1994 they brought it back.
Ha! Is it really? When we were watching Sportscenter, I said how starnge the score seemed, and my wife scoffed at me. Scoffed, I say! I’ll show her!
And on the same day the Eagles tied the horrific Bengals 13-13!!!
Joe
What an awful day for betting. This game fucked my 6 game parlay (i only pull one of these off a season, and this was it, I bet), and it fucked my regular bet. I was going to open a pit thread on it.
11 used to be a strange final team score, but lately it’s been showing up in the NFL more often. Just a few weeks ago, the game between the Redskins and the Browns finished 14-11. Four other times in the past three years, teams have finished a game with 11 points. It’s strange that a game has never finished 11-10 but it was only a matter of time.
I have not been able to find out whether a game has ever finished 12-11.
So a back of the envelope would say about 1/3 of them? '64-'94 didn’t have them, but '94 to present has. There are a lot more teams now than there were back then, and the season is longer.
Aw, man, I’m supposed to be working. Instead I’m madly digging through Pro Football Reference for 11s.
OK, this is not the first time in NFL history a team has won with a final score of 11 points. In 1962 the Lions scored three field goals and a safety to beat the Bears 11-3. AFAIK that was the first time in NFL history a team scored 11 points in a game (or, at least the first time from 1940, as far back as Pro Football Reference goes).
No NFL team scored 11 in a game again until 1980, when the Patriots beat the Jets 21-11. The Jets scored their 11 on a touchdown, a missed extra point, a field goal, and a safety. That made the Jets the first team in NFL history to lose a game while scoring 11 points. So it took 40 years for the second 11-point game.
Only two years later the Seahawks beat the Broncos 13-11. Get this: the Broncos scored a touchdown, an extra point, and TWO safeties for that 11.
In '83 the Lions shut out the Buccaneers 11-0. Second 11-point win. That same year the Eagles lost to the Cardinals 14-11, so now we’ve got 13-11 and 14-11. Still no 12-11. We’ve also got four 11-point games in four years when there was only one in the first 39 years of the NFL. Weird.
Another 13-11 game, this one involving the Lions and Eagles, occurred in 1986. 17-11 showed up when the Chiefs beat the Broncos in 1988.
Now we get to the 2-point conversion era, when 11 points is more obtainable. The first 8 + 3 game was in 1994 when the Bills beat the Dolphins 21-11. Dan Marino threw that 2-point conversion; I didn’t realize he was still in the NFL in '94. That same year the Browns beat the Oilers 11-8, two two-point conversions in that game. Third 11-point win.
From there on out 11-point games start becoming almost commonplace. There were three in 1995, with one team winning one 11-7. One in 1997. Two in 1998. The Rams won the 1999 NFC conference championship game 11-6 over the Buccaneers, so that now makes five 11-point wins. There was a second 11-pointer in 1999. A 19-11 game in 2000. The Dolphins beat the Bills in 2001 by the same 21-11 scoreline they lost to the same team by in 1994. And then there was one 11-pointer in 2005, one in 2006, two in 2007, and the two this year, as previously mentioned.
So…we’ve got 11-6, 11-7, 11-8, 13-11, and 14-11 to go with yesterday’s 11-10. The NFL still awaits 11-9 and 12-11.
I need to go back to work now.
… and an 11-11 tie. You watch… now we’ll get two next week.
Duke, you rock. Thanks for doing the research!
Didn’t somebody point out in a thread about three weeks ago that the least probably score would be 10-1? One point for returning an overturned extra point attempt, and the other team getting six point for that touchdown and two safeties.
As long as we’re mentioning weird NFL scores and games I couldn’t help but mention this one. Sure, 33-12 doesn’t look like that weird a score, but the devil is in the details: The Rams scored their 33 on three touchdowns, three PATs, two field goals, and THREE safeties; the Giants scored their 12 on two touchdowns and two missed PATs. Keep in mind that in 1984 there was no two-point conversion option…the Giants missed two extra-point kicks.
Sort of.
It would have to be forcing the touchdown-scoring team into a safety on an extra point attempt. A touchdown for the non-scoring team would be 2 points.
Only in college, anyway. The non-scoring team can’t score anything on a extra point attempt.
No kidding. WTF, San Diego? :smack::(:smack::(:smack: