# Football scores **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 24, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754 "2019-09-24T14:43:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/21 "2019-09-25T01:18:03Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I would think [NFL Scorigami](https://nflscorigami.com/) is relevant here. They keep track of all possible scores and gleefully announce new unique final scores. Yep, they announced a new unique final score in Week 1 this year, when the Ravens beat the Dolphins 59-10. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/22 "2019-09-25T02:07:12Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Yep, they announced a new unique final score in Week 1 this year, when the Ravens beat the Dolphins 59-10. Ah, thanks. I tried looking around for the most recent one, but couldn’t find it before just before giving up. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/23 "2019-09-25T02:12:54Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Ah, thanks. I tried looking around for the most recent one, but couldn’t find it before just before giving up. I knew it only because I follow Scorigami on Twitter… ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/24 "2019-09-26T01:06:42Z")
I can’t find it but IIRC a few years back the Pittsburgh Steelers won a Monday nite home game 3-0 on a field torn up by several high school football games over the weekend. The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Chicago Cardinals 7-0 at home for the NFL Championship in a blizzard. The Eagles defeat of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52 is the only 41-33 score in NFL history. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/25 "2019-09-29T19:55:23Z")
This isn’t completely on point, but I think you’ll find it interesting nonetheless. In the Canadian Football League, it is possible to score a single point, known as a rouge. So, you might ask, has a CFL game ever ended 1-0? Indeed, it has! Back in the 1960s, Montreal managed to pick up one solitary rouge in the fourth quarter on the way to a truly crushing victory over Ottawa. And the archived story in the Montreal paper says it also happened in 1949. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/26 "2019-09-29T21:38:41Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > I can’t find it but IIRC a few years back the Pittsburgh Steelers won a Monday nite home game 3-0 on a field torn up by several high school football games over the weekend. Yup, they beat the Dolphins at home, at Heinz, on a late FG. > [@Snooooopy](#): > > This isn’t completely on point, but I think you’ll find it interesting nonetheless. In the Canadian Football League, it is possible to score a single point, known as a rouge. So, you might ask, has a CFL game ever ended 1-0? Indeed, it has! Back in the 1960s, Montreal managed to pick up one solitary rouge in the fourth quarter on the way to a truly crushing victory over Ottawa. And the archived story in the Montreal paper says it also happened in 1949. In addition, if an NFL team forfeits a game (which IIRC has never happened,) that game is scored in the record books as a 1-0 victory for the team that does show up. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/27 "2019-09-30T00:03:55Z")
Two first-ever scores today. Browns 40-25 over the Ravens & Buccaneers 55-40 over the Rams. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/28 "2019-09-30T01:50:07Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Two first-ever scores today. Browns 40-25 over the Ravens & Buccaneers 55-40 over the Rams. When was the last time there were two in one weekend? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/29 "2019-09-30T02:16:02Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Yup, they beat the Dolphins at home, at Heinz, on a late FG. There was the PA high school championship game played on the field, followed by a Pitt game. It also rained like crazy that whole weekend in Pittsburgh and the grounds crew decided to just put new sod on top of the old sod, so the field was the worst I have ever seen watching football. As the game got near the end of regulation, I was rooting for overtime and the chance of a 0-0 tie. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/30 "2019-10-19T15:54:18Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > I can’t find it but IIRC a few years back the Pittsburgh Steelers won a Monday nite home game 3-0 on a field torn up by several high school football games over the weekend. > > The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Chicago Cardinals 7-0 at home for the NFL Championship in a blizzard. > > The Eagles defeat of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52 is the only 41-33 score in NFL history. > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Chicago Cardinals? That goes back a long long way. The only NFL season game I ever saw (I saw one preseason game once) was the Chicago Cardinals beating the Eagles at Shibe Park. Probably around 1949 or so. One season around then, the Eagles beat the Redskins 45-0 twice in the same season. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/31 "2019-10-19T16:37:06Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I would think [NFL Scorigami](https://nflscorigami.com/) is relevant here. They keep track of all possible scores and gleefully announce new unique final scores. What a great site. I can definitely waste some time here. > [@Atamasama](#): > > I remember an absolutely miserable game recently between the Seahawks and Cardinals. Final score was 6-6. It was the only time an NFL game ended in that score. Not true. [My very first NFL game](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197211050phi.htm) in 1972 between the Eagles and the St. Louis Cardinals ended in a 6-6 tie. Four field goals, no touchdowns, no overtime. It’s a wonder I ever went back for second game. (Early 70s were a tough time for all Philly sports teams that weren’t wearing ice skates.) My new favorite website says that [a total of 16 games](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=6&pts_lose=6) ended like this, but only three came after the merger. > [@russian\_heel](#): > > The Eagles defeat of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52 is the only 41-33 score in NFL history. [Also not true.](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=41&pts_lose=33) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/32 "2019-10-19T17:58:48Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Not true. [My very first NFL game](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197211050phi.htm) in 1972 between the Eagles and the St. Louis Cardinals ended in a 6-6 tie. Four field goals, no touchdowns, no overtime. It’s a wonder I ever went back for second game. (Early 70s were a tough time for all Philly sports teams that weren’t wearing ice skates.) > > My new favorite website says that [a total of 16 games](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=6&pts_lose=6) ended like this, but only three came after the merger. However, the 6-6 tie between the Seahawks and Cardinals in 2016, to which Atamasama was referring, was, however, the only time a game has ended with that score since the NFL instituted overtime for regular-season games (which greatly reduced the number of ties). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/33 "2019-10-19T18:28:57Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > However, the 6-6 tie between the Seahawks and Cardinals in 2016, to which Atamasama was referring, was, however, the only time a game has ended with that score since the NFL instituted overtime for regular-season games (which greatly reduced the number of ties). I’ll admit I was unaware of that qualifier so I’ll offer a mea culpa. It makes sense that prior to overtime rules it was more common to have weird tying scores. I just know that announcers were saying the result in that Seattle/Arizona game had never happened before. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/34 "2019-10-19T18:56:51Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > I can’t find it but IIRC a few years back the Pittsburgh Steelers won a Monday nite home game 3-0 on a field torn up by several high school football games over the weekend. There was an infamous game in the early ‘80s when the Patriots beat the Dolphins late in the season up in New England. There was snow on the field and the Patriots’ head coach at the time got a stadium employee (whom, IIRC, was on work release) to clear the snow on the very spot where N.E was going to try a field goal. The field goal was good and I believe it was the only score of the game but the way in which it all went down made national news. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754/35 "2019-10-19T19:26:19Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > There was an infamous game in the early ‘80s when the Patriots beat the Dolphins late in the season up in New England. There was snow on the field and the Patriots’ head coach at the time got a stadium employee (whom, IIRC, was on work release) to clear the snow on the very spot where N.E was going to try a field goal. The field goal was good and I believe it was the only score of the game but the way in which it all went down made national news. That would be [this game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowplow_Game). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-scores/840754.md?page=1)