Has a football game ever ended in a 2 2 tie?

It has happened only one time in the modern history of the National Football League*, and the Detroit Lions were involved. The date was November 7, 1943. German bombers were conducting air raids on London.
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Has there ever been a 2 2 tie in football?

Since the adoption of overtime in 1974, no team has had 2 ties in the same season. The 1973 season had 4 teams with 2 ties.
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Do NFL games ever end in a tie?

Inevitably, with so many games so close, some will end with a tie score at the end of regulation. The 2021 season featured 21 games that required overtime, not including two in the postseason.
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Has an NFL game ever ended 2 to nothing?

Similarly, five NFL games in history have finished with a score of 2-0. Again, this has not happened post-merger, with the last such game coming in 1938 between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers.
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What is the biggest win in NFL history?

The Jacksonville Jaguars' 65-7 win over the Miami Dolphins in January 2000 is the biggest blowout in NFL playoff history. In more than two decades since Fred Taylor and the Jaguars obliterated Dan Marino and the Dolphins, no team has come close to matching the 58-point blowout.
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What was the most violent NFL game?

The Body Bag Game was a Monday Night Football game that was played on November 12, 1990, between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins at Veterans Stadium. The Eagles defeated the Redskins, 28–14.
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Has there ever been a 100 point NFL game?

No, an NFL team has never scored 100 points in a game.

The Raiders beat the Oilers 52-49 on Sunday to clinch their first division title in 25 years. They were led by quarterback Derek Carr who threw for 447 yards and five touchdowns.
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What is the rarest score in the NFL?

The lowest possible score is 0-0 and has been achieved 73 times, though the most recent scoreless tie came on Nov. 7, 1943.
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Has there ever been a 3 2 football game?

What they and the Bulldogs did in the 3-2 final was put on one of the worst football games in the history of the sport. Not bad until you look at the three turnovers that the Tigers had.
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Has a 1 point safety ever happened?

A 1 point safety is extremely rare, but it can happen. What is a 1 point safety in football? A 1 point safety is when the team trying to score a 2-point conversion or PAT turns the ball over, the defense takes the ball out of the end zone, then gets tackled in the end zone for a safety.
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Has there ever been a 0 to 0 NFL game?

Yes, many NFL games have ended 0-0. Per Pro Football Reference, 73 games in pro football history have ended in a 0-0 tie. However, the last time it happened was almost 80 years ago, meaning there have been no scoreless ties in the Super Bowl era.
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Do 2 ties equal a win in NFL?

The following procedures will be used to break standings ties for postseason playoffs and to determine regular-season schedules. NOTE: Tie games count as one-half win and one-half loss for both clubs.
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Has Tom Brady ever had a tie?

Tom Brady has not tied in his career.
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Has there ever been a 4 2 football game?

faced off against Walter Johnson High (Bethesda, Md.). The final score was 4-2, in favor of Magruder. The sport was football, not baseball. As reported by the Maryland Gazette, the only points scored by Johnson incredibly came when Magruder took a safety rather than punt from its own 1-yard-line.
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When was the last time a team had 2 ties?

Since overtime was introduced in 1974, there have been 29 tied games. Five seasons (1986, 1997, 2016, 2018, and 2022) have two ties since the introduction of overtime. The most recent tie game occurred on December 4, 2022, when the New York Giants and Washington Commanders played to a 20–20 draw.
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Can football scores end in 2?

Since 2015, we've experienced seven of the eight lowest frequencies of final scores ending in zero, one, three, four, or seven dating back to 1932. (The other season in that group of eight is 1994, when the NFL introduced the two-point conversion.)
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Has there ever been a 200 point football game?

Georgia Tech football game was played on October 7, 1916, between the Cumberland College Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Engineers on the Engineers' home field of Grant Field in Atlanta. Georgia Tech defeated the Bulldogs 222–0 for the most lopsided score in the history of college American football.
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What score has never happened in NFL?

Among the non-viable outcomes are 1-1, 1-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, and 7-1. Five to 1 is impossible because it can only occur after a field goal and a conventional safety while 7 to 1 is also impossible because a team can only get to 7 after scoring a touchdown by successfully kicking a PAT.
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Has there ever been a 1/0 football game?

Yes, there has been a 0–0 game in NFL history. Surprisingly the last 0-0 game was way back in the past more than 76 years ago & 20 days from this answer ( NOV 27, 2019). It was played on November 7, 1943, between the Detroit Lions & the New York Giants.
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Can NFL team score 1 point?

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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What NFL team scored 73 points in a game?

On December 8, 1940, the Chicago Bears trounce the Washington Redskins (now known as the Washington Football Team) in the National Football League (NFL) Championship by a score of 73-0, the largest margin of defeat in NFL history.
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Is a 6 1 score possible in football?

As Bois explains in the video, there is one situation where a 6-1 score is possible. Team A would need to score a touchdown to break a scoreless tie. On the ensuing PAT attempt, if Team B gets a safety, it would be awarded one point as opposed to the usual two points for a safety since it came on a conversion attempt.
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Has any NFL team scored 70 points?

The 1950 Los Angeles Rams, the best offensive team in NFL history in terms of average points (466 in 12 games, 38.8 PPG), scored 70 points, one of only three teams to ever do so. The following week, they beat the Detroit Lions 65-24, including an NFL record 41 points in one quarter.
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Has an NFL team ever scored 69 points?

Two games tie for the third-highest point mark with 69 points. Those came in 1993 when the Cowboys beat the Bills and in 2003 when the Buccaneers beat the Raiders. The highest scoring NFL game ever came in 1966 when the Redskins and Giants combined for 113 points.
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What is the largest halftime lead in NFL history?

But the record goes to the New England Patriots, who beat the Tennessee Titans 59-0 on Oct. 18, 2009. By halftime the Patriots, led by Tom Brady, had scored 45 points! New England didn't score on its first drive that snowy day, but then scored on their next nine possessions. The score was 35-0 after 15 minutes!
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