I'm sure most know what Scorigami is, but for those that don't, it is a unique final score that has never been seen before. @BrowningNagle mentioned it earlier tonight, and I realized I had kind of forgotten about it and not looked in a year or two. There are more than you would think. It's very interesting stuff: - scores where the losers have scored 1, 2, 4, or 5 are exceedingly rare. 1 has never been done as no one has ever scored a one point safety in the NFL. Scoring one point would require doing that as well as not scoring at all in the remainder of the game. I'm sure the 1 point safety will be scored at some point, but it's bet unlikely that would be the only score of the game for the team that scores it so we probably will never see a team lose with 1 point. The loser has had 4 one time in history, and that was in 1923. Final score: Racine Legion 10, Chicago Cardinals 4. All other scores where the loser has 4 still remain open. And no team that's a part of the NFL in our lifetimes has been involved (if anyone here is 100 or older, God bless you my child). The number 2 has been the loser's score 32 times in history. The number 5 has been the loser's score 17 times. As for the most popular, the top 10 scores show that there are only 4 scores that have been finals 200 or more times in NFL history: 20-17 (289) 27-24 (233) 23-20 (201) 17-14 (200 - none this season) 24-17 (177) 13-10 (169) 24-21 (157) 17-10 (146) 16-13 (145) 24-14 (139 - none since 2021) Honorable mention: 24-10 (137) Not surprisingly, 3-point victories are by far the most common. Also interesting is the fact that 24 is the winning score in 3 of the top 4 most prevalent scores where the winning margin was more than 3 points. There's a billion interesting things here, I'm sure we could probably talk about it all day, but I'll stop here. If you're interested in delving into this, here's the site: nflscorigami.com Enjoy.
The only way it can happen is on a two-point conversion or extra point attempt. It's so unlikely that it's just about impossible. The team on defense during the attempt has to recover the ball (blocked kick, INT on 2 pt conversion, recover fumble on snap, etc), take the ball all the way back and somehow lose the ball so that the team that was originally making the attempt is tackled or kicks the ball out of its own end zone for a safety. They don't get two points in that instance, just one. Has never happened, and it's very unlikely it will. Therefore, the lowest possible score where the losing team scores one point is 6–1 since it comes on a conversion attempt. It is not possible to have a lower score and have a team score only 1 pt. 6-1 is like the holy grail of Scorigami.
I would imagine that for years it was fairly stale until the two-point conversion came around. Now, they go for two at all kinds of weird times and I've seen more weird scores than I've ever seen before. Shit, even Super Bowl box pools aren't predictable anymore.
I jokingly posted about a 6-1 Scorigami in the Jets vs. Commanders thread. It's pretty much impossible because as far as I know, the only one point safeties that have been scored at any level have been scored by the team attempting the conversion. For the team defending the conversion to get one would require an insane sequence of events.
haha, I'll be honest, I've never even considered the "easy" version of this. I've only ever considered the wacky one where a team could get their only point... Nice, you taught me something. Here's a highlight of one from college:
No joke: Keeping track of Scorigami has significantly added value to my football watching for the past 2-3 years, especially with how miserable rooting for the Jets has been. I have a rule with my girlfriend and close friends who also follow Scorigami where any time there is a new Scorigami, we take a shot of our liquor of choice the next time a night calls for drinking. I find it a little bittersweet, though, because the more Scorigamis we get, the less likely the next one will come. It’s sad to think one day the available Scorigamis left will be too unlikely to see accomplished. Enjoy it while it lasts!
I don't think so, at the very end of the video the announcer states that it will just look like they made the extra point. I would imagine that if they would also get the ball back, it would've been a bigger deal, but since the video doesn't extend beyond that point, I will assume that the conversion is a separate play and what happens within it is contained within it.
