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ShareThisHistory Was Made in Last Sunday’s 49ers-Bengals Game
On Monday, John Adair tweeted this about Sunday's San Francisco-Cincinnati game:
The 13-8 final score of the 49ers-Bengals game, according to Pro-Football-Reference, has never happened before in NFL history #49ers
How did he find that? Using the Game Scores PI tool, he was able to look for all games that ever had a 13-8 score:
| Rk | Week | Day | Date | Winner/tie | Loser/tie | PtsW | PtsL | YdsW | TOW | YdsL | TOL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Sun | September 25, 2011 | boxscore | W | San Francisco 49ers | @ | Cincinnati Bengals | 13 | 8 | 226 | 1 | 228 | 3 |
Pretty neat, right?
Here's another one for you -- last week's Saints-Texans game was only the 2nd in NFL history with a 40-33 score:
| Rk | Week | Day | Date | Winner/tie | Loser/tie | PtsW | PtsL | YdsW | TOW | YdsL | TOL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Sun | September 24, 1989 | boxscore | W | New York Jets | @ | Miami Dolphins | 40 | 33 | 411 | 2 | 524 | 2 |
| 2 | 3 | Sun | September 25, 2011 | boxscore | W | New Orleans Saints | Houston Texans | 40 | 33 | 454 | 2 | 473 | 1 |
So think of this feature the next time you see a score that just looks strange, and you too might uncover an historic final score first.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 at 9:11 am and is filed under History, PI Finds, Site Features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
But there have been about 5 games that ended 18-16.
Gah! Was just going to post this as a comment on the last thread
We also have a list of all game scores which have yet to happen which is kind of interesting to look through. Lots of 2s, 4s, 5s, and 8s in there. Strange that 13-8 happened before 14-8 did, though.
If you look at the missing game scores page 13-8 is not there but if you look at the game score summary pages for scores that have happened, 13-8 isn't there either!
Apparently it's in transition.
Good catch, those are up-to-date now.
I do tend to think about this, though, in games with early safeties. I was intently watching that Carolina/Jacksonville game, hoping for some crazy final score.
I believe it is just a matter of time before we see a 35-29 game.
Great tool. Oddly enough there are only 2 x games that ended 18-3. Woulda thought 6 field goals vs 1 might occur more often.
But there are 4 x games of 2-0, all before 1940 (pre forward pass?). However, couldn't use wildcards to find all losing scores=2. The search routine would abend.
Wasn't there a game a few years back involving the Steelers (and I forget whom else) that ended with a very strange score (11-9, maybe?) which was uncertain because of a final-desperation-play turnover that may or may not have been returned for a TD by a Steeler defender (Polamalu, I believe?). I don't have a PI subscription (unless my Baseball Reference one works here).
Also, I like parentheses (a lot).
Maybe you're referring to Steelers v. Browns in 2008, which ended 11-10?
Um. Make that Steelers v. Chargers.
Another new one, Packers beat the Broncos 49-23!
Packers won Sunday 49-23. It appears that's the only game ever with that final score.