Can a Super Bowl end in a tie?

In an NFL playoff game, additional overtime periods are played, as needed, to determine a winner. This clearly means that regular-season games can end in a tie after one quarter of overtime is played, but the Super Bowl and postseason games cannot.
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Was there ever a tie in a Super Bowl?

The game was also the first and currently only Super Bowl to be decided in overtime. U.S. viewership: 111.3 million est. avg. The Patriots' victory was their fifth, moving them into a three-way tie with the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers for the second-most Super Bowl wins.
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What was the longest Super Bowl?

From start to finish, the longest ever Super Bowl game was Super Bowl XLVII, which ended up lasting 4 hours and 14 minutes from the opening kickoff to the conclusion of the game. That game, however, featured a 34-minute pause due to a power outage at the Superdome.
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Has there ever been a 0 0 tie in the NFL?

Surprisingly the last 0-0 game was more than 70 years ago. It was played on 7 November 1943 between the Detroit Lions and New York Giants.
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Can NFL games end in a tie?

In the National Football League (NFL), a tied game occurs when a regular season game ends with both teams having an equal score after one ten minute overtime period. Ties have counted as a half-win and half-loss in league standings since 1972; before that, ties were not counted in the standings at all.
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Can a Super Bowl end in a tie?



Is NFL OT sudden death?

The NFL's overtime rules do not allow for a sudden-death situation until both teams have possessed the ball and the game remains tied. However, if the team that gets the ball first scores a touchdown, the game ends. Many argue the existence of that rule gives too much value to something as random as a coin toss.
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Has an NFL team ever scored 100 points?

101 points (Oakland Raiders vs.

Played on December 22, 1963, the game took place in the American Football League (AFL), but it was absorbed into official NFL records after the NFL–AFL merger. The Oakland Raiders defeated the Houston Oilers 52–49, combining for a total of 101 points.
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Has there ever been a football game with 100 points?

On October 25, 1884, Yale defeated Dartmouth 113–0, becoming the first team to score 100 points in a game.
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Has there ever been a 2 0 NFL game?

There have also been five 2-0 games in NFL history where just a safety was scored. However, none have happened since the Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 2-0 in 1938.
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Has an NFL team ever forfeited?

There have been no forfeits in the league's history; a 1921 game between the Rochester Jeffersons and the Washington Senators is occasionally listed as a forfeit, but because of the lax cancellation rules of the time and uncertainty over which team (if either) was at fault for the game not being played, the game is ...
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What's the highest scoring Super Bowl?

The 49ers actually also hold the highest single-game point total in a Super Bowl, scoring 55 points in Super Bowl XXIV on Jan. 28, 1990 against the Denver Broncos. San Francisco won the game, 55-10.
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What is the longest Pick 6 in Super Bowl history?

The 100-yard interception return gave the Steelers a 17-7 lead – they'd eventually win, 27-23 – and the return became the longest play in Super Bowl history (since eclipsed by Jacoby Jones 108-yard kickoff return in Super Bowl XVII).
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Has any NFL team went 16 0 and won the Super Bowl?

Are we witnessing the first team to go 16-0 and eventually hoist the Lombardi Trophy? The '72 Dolphins went undefeated on the way to winning their first Super Bowl in January of 1973.
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What is the longest overtime in NFL history?

The longest game of all time happened back in 1971 on Christmas Day when the Dolphins defeated the Chiefs, 27-24, in sudden-death overtime in an AFC Divisional Playoff game. Garo Yepremian kicked a 37-yard field goal for the Dolphins after 22 minutes and 40 seconds of overtime play.
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What happens if there is a tie in the playoffs?

If the score is still tied at the end of the 15-minute period, or if the second team hasn't completed its second possession, there is a two-minute intermission, followed by another overtime period.
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What is a Scorigami in NFL?

Scorigami is one of football's greatest nuances. Created by Jon Bois, Scorigami describes “the art of building final scores that have never happened before in NFL history,” according to its host website. Here, we'll track every instance of Scorigami throughout the 2021 NFL season.
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Has any NFL team scored on every possession?

The Bills' dominant win over the Patriots included an unprecedented accomplishment in NFL history. Every time the Bills got the ball they scored a touchdown — seven possessions, seven touchdowns — with the exception of kneeling down at the end of each half.
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Has any NFL team scored 4 points?

There are two ways in which an NFL team could score four points. Neither option is common, and four points have been scored just once in NFL history. This occurred in 1923 when the Chicago Cardinals scored four points against the Racine Legion. The Cardinals did so by twice scoring a safety.
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What quarter are most points scored in NFL?

The Detroit Lions scored 34 points in the 4th quarter, the most in NFL history!
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What NFL player scored the most points in a single game?

Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points 50 years ago, easily one of the most-dominating performances in sports history. With that in mind, here's a look at some of the NFL's best single-game performances. Ernie Nevers scored every point in the Chicago Cardinals 40-6 romp over the cross-town Bears in 1929.
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Can you get 1 point football?

In American football, if a team attempting an extra point or two-point conversion (officially known in the rulebooks as a try) scores what would normally be a safety, that attempting team is awarded one point. This is commonly known as a conversion safety or one-point safety.
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Has there ever been a Super Bowl where no touchdowns were scored?

There has never been a Super Bowl game without a touchdown scored by either team. There has, however, been a title game where one team failed to score a touchdown: the 1971 Dolphins, who lost 24–3 to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, La.
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Has an NFL team ever scored 1 point?

What is a 1-Point Safety? The one-point safety is so rare, it's NEVER happened in the NFL. According to the NFL's scoring rules under Section 11-3-2-C, the rare one-point safety is awarded when a safety occurs by either team during a “try,” or a point after try such as a two-point conversion or extra point attempt.
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