NFL history was made Sunday night as the Cowboys and Packers played to a brand new final score.
No NFL game has ever ended in a 40-40 score. That is until the closing seconds of overtime between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys. When Brandon McManus’s kick sailed through the uprights, the game ended in a 40-40 tie. That’s an NFL Scorigami!
An NFL “Scorigami” is a final score that’s never happened before in the history of the league. With high-powered offenses racking up points and analytics telling folks to go for two more often, Scorigami has been happening more and more. This is the 1,093rd unique score in NFL history and the second Scorigami this season. The Buffalo Bills’ thrilling 41-40 Week 1 game was also a Scorigami and also coincidentally on Sunday Night Football.
Often, the Scorigami is a result of a weird scoring play like we saw with the blocked extra point returned for two points in this game, but that didn’t factor into this particular Socirgami in the way you’d expect. Scoring a multiple of ten is usually a touchdown and a field goal, we just got there a little differently.
There are still nearly 1,400 NFL scores that have never happened, so it’s not a phenomenon that is going away any time soon.
Our friends at Secret Base just so happen to be in the middle of an extensive series on Scorigami right now. You can watch the first three parts now and look for Part four coming soon. Here is Part 1:
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