“Scorigami” charts every final score in league history and searches for unique scores.
HOUSTON — A wild Sunday Night Football game ended in a tie — and with a score that’s never before happened in NFL history.
The back-and-forth battle between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers finished in a 40-40 deadlock when Packers kicker Brandon McManus made a 34-yard field goal as time expired in overtime.
It was the second-highest-scoring tie in NFL history and the first time ever that a game ended with that exact final score. The only tie game to see more points in league history was a 43-43 draw between the Oakland Raiders and Boston Patriots on Oct. 16, 1964.
In NFL fan circles, the historic final score has become known as a “Scorigami,” thanks to a website that tracks the final score of every game in NFL history in search of the next “unique” final score.
Scorigami explained
According to the NFL Scorigami account on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Scorigami concept was first suggested by Jon Bois, with a website charting every final score in league history developed by Dave Mattingly.
In the same way fantasy football has fans across the country occasionally cheer against their own favorite team if a rival can score a few points, posts to the Scorigami account are full of replies of fans who claim to only be cheering for the uniqueness of a final score.
If you’re curious, the most frequent final score in NFL history before last week’s, according to Mattingly’s site, is 20-17, which has happened 298 times in league history, nearly 60 games ahead of it’s closest competition, the 27-24 final, which has happened 238 times in the NFL.
While there hasn’t been a 0-0 final score since the Giants and Lions went scoreless on Nov. 7, 1943, there have been 73 games in NFL history where neither team registered a point.
The lowest possible scores to not yet “hit” are the 4-0 and 2-2 finals, though five teams have won games 2-0 and three more have won with 5-0 finals. On the other end of the spectrum is the Chicago Bears’ 73-0 shutout of Washington on Dec. 8, 1940, and the highest-scoring of the 1,090 unique final scores in NFL history — Washington’s 72-41 win over the New York Giants on Nov. 27, 1966.