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in the NFL a one to nothing score is impossible right you can't just score one point by itself it's not mathematically achievable one-to-one is an impossible score so are 2 2 1 3 2 1 4 2 1 5 2 1 and 7 2 1 6 2 1 is possible thanks to an obscure loophole in the NFL rulebook a final score of 6 to 1 can technically happen it would require a turn of events so staggeringly stupidly unlikely that I'm almost positive it will never happen under current NFL rules but because it's technically possible a score of 6 to 1 is the crown jewel of score egami a word I made up it's the art of building final scores that have never happened before in NFL history even after a century of play and more than 15,000 games this beautiful craft is still alive today [Music] this is the score egami board over the course in the next few minutes we'll fill it with every single NFL score that has ever happened but first let's take a minute and survey the boundaries the number of points scored by the winning team determines the column the number of points scored by the losing team determines the row so for example let's say a game ends with a score of 21 to 17 so that's here 28 to nothing that's here a 14 to 14th I that would be here now the reason half the board is blacked out is that naturally the loser can't have more points than the winner for example you can win a game 17 to 14 you cannot win a game 14 to 17 up here gets a little bit messy because remember you can't have a 1 to 1 tie that's blacked out you can't win 2 to 1 3 to 1 4 to 1 5 to 1 or 7 to 1 6 to 1 again it really is possible and I promise we will get to that this chart stops at 73 because that's the highest number of points an NFL team has ever scored of course there could be a 92 12 game or a 156 to 112 game I mean longtime viewers will remember the 222 - nothing college football game and even if we're talking about a football game that ends like 4000 to 3000 it's beyond the limits of physics and human anatomy yeah but it's not against the rule book so it's technically in play so I don't know about you but the ideal football game I want to watch is a close game with a decent amount of scoring like 27 21 or 31 to 28 you know somewhere around there well we started the year 1922 the first year the NFL was called the NFL and it looks like from a fan's perspective this is a disaster look at that top row that's covered in green that means we've got a lot of shutout wins look it up there in the upper left-hand corner that means we have a bunch of low-scoring games 3-nothing games nothing nothing games if I were in charge of the NFL back then I would have immediately canceled it look the zero zero score is lit up now what that little light doesn't tell you is that they were five zero zero games that season not just one fifty-one games were shutouts more than two-thirds of all games in 1922 were shutouts I mean surely it's not asking a lot to win a game in which a both teams score double digits and be one team actually wins the game out of all 74 games there are two that fit that description too you know what I have a lot of quit in me and they clearly didn't because they came back the next year and it was still terrible look everybody there's even a to nothing game a safety was the only score of the game and it wasn't just any safety it was a ground rule safety there was a fence in the end zone and for some reason they decided that if the ball hit the fence it would be a safety instead of a touchdown and that's how we have the first two nothing game in the history of the NFL and we also have the only time a team ever scored exactly four points in a game they did it naturally with two safeties so what about this block over here will we ever see a four to four game with both teams scoring two safeties and tying well alright let's just imagine the NFL stays exactly like it has in the 21st century all right stick with me here because the numbers are about to get really big really fast on average team scores the safety every 32 games so the odds of scoring two in a game are about one in a thousand the score has to stay at four points to the offense has to be shut out the odds of that are about one in 70 so for a team to finish with exactly four points is about one in 74,000 now for this happened to both teams in the same game the odds of that would be one in about five and a half billion of course we're still not done because these odds only get us to the end of regulation this overtime has to be scoreless right so the odds of a completely scoreless overtime are about one and eighty-seven which means the probability of four to four final score is about one in four hundred and seventy-one Billy games there are 267 games in a season so if NFL rules and behaviors never changed we could expect to see one four to four game every 1.7 billion years yeah you know what that's pretty good news because we should have about four billion years before the surface of the earth gets melted off by the heat of the Sun so there's plenty of time that was sad let's keep it sad in 1932 neither the Chicago Bears nor their opponents scored on offense until their fifth game through the first 16 quarters of the season the Bears were outscored 2 to nothing here's an article recapping that third straight 0-0 game thousands of people knew the Bears open their season with two scoreless ties and they went oh yeah it sounds fun and they went and bought a ticket and sat in the rain for hours and watched another scoreless tie and then they went home who are these people like don't understand these people okay so this is my completely arbitrary idea of a quote unquote good game I like offense so I like to watch a game in which both teams score at least 21 points that's not a tall order right I mean there were 75 games like that in 2015 there have been some peaks and valleys but throughout most of NFL history 20 or 30% of good games have fit in this category across the NFL's first 15 years of existence there were two games in which both teams scored 21 points too but hey if one side of clobberin czar you're kind of deal the early NFL just might be for you the most well-known scorer egami of all time may have been the 1940 NFL championship the precursor to the Super Bowl in which the Bears beat Washington 73 to nothing since then there have been some 40 points shutout wins and some 50 Birger shutout wins but no team in the last 75 years has come even close to 73 zero across the history of NFL score egami I see three major spikes the first came in 1946 when the arrival all-america Football Conference was founded there were 24 score egami that year largely because there were twice as many games after four seasons of the NFL and a AFC completely hating each other and losing money the NFL absorbed the AFC and took on a few of its teams and that is why the AFC teams are counted here by this point we can see a pattern start to emerge of course the four row and column are almost completely empty same story with five and 11 15 and 18 are also pretty empty now this sort of demonstrates why score egami is unique to flip all the way scoring is structured in other sports scoring one point at a time is pretty common in baseball you most commonly score one run at a time and basketball there are one-point free throw shots all the time in hockey and soccer you can only score by one so mathematically a scorer can only be interesting in terms of magnitude it really is funny when say the Rangers beat the Orioles 30 to 3 but magnitude is basically the only way it can be funny the NFL scoring arithmetic is far more awkward virtually all NFL scores are built with these five blocks the seven-point touchdown an extra point the 3-point field goal the six point touchdown with no conversion the eight point touchdown and two-point conversion and the two-point safety there are no 1 blocks here this is limiting and the distribution of these scores make them even more limiting last season in the NFL there were more than 1000 touchdowns and there were a ton of field goals - they were about a hundred six point touchdowns thanks to a missed field goal or miss two-point conversion but four score gommi purposes this isn't really that valuable because the six pointer is really just two field goals the eight point touchdown is valuable for score egami because eight is a weird number but there were only forty five to go around all season finally there's everyone's favorite the safety of which they were only 16 the distribution here is wildly out of balance and it's a big reason why score egami is so special for example that's why eight is so hard to get to you can build eight points in four different ways but all of them range from rare to astronomically rare and near impossible and that is why we only see the number eight in the box score once or twice a year but if you really want to get nimble like the other sports you have to practice in the dark arts of score economy these three maneuvers are permitted by NFL rules but a couple of them have never been used you know what parental discretion is advised for this bit actually grand parental discretion is advised for this bit if you are under the age of 60 leave the room first there is the forfeit if for some reason one team refuses to play the other team officially wins two to nothing why two to nothing I don't know of course this can't be used as a building block it's a prefab final score also there are already a few two-nothing games on the book so you can't make score egami out of it still it's their second there's the defensive two-point conversion if there's a turnover on a two-point conversion attempt and the defense runs it back to the other end zone they get two points this is clunky though because it comes tethered to the six point touchdown the other team had to score in order to force this play in the first place and third there's the defensive one point safety as some of you were thinking wait I saw this in college football one time didn't I I know what you're talking about you're talking about this right [Music] results in a one-point site and yes that was crazy but ultimately that just results in a seven point which is nothing special in the world of score economy this is not that I'm talking about something far far stupid and I promise we will get to it all right kids we're back in 1960 we see another huge increase in score egami the most obvious reason for this is the founding of the AFL which featured eight new teams that would eventually join the NFL the second sneakier reason is that unlike the NFL the AFL allowed for the two-point conversion over the next decade AFL teams would score eighty two pointers even one of those blips is enough to tip a highly conventional score into scorer egami and it works the other way too in 1961 the Oilers and bills were well on their way to a super conventional 2817 game there have been 62 NFL games at that score but after Buffalo scored to cut the houston lead to 21 16 they decided to go for the two pointer to get within a field goal they failed they were stuck at 16 and that score egami similar story here in 1964 the Raiders and Patriots have scored conventionally and the Pats lead late 35 34 Oakland scores a touchdown but because they want to go up a clean seven points they go for two and they fail then Boston scores a touchdown and they want to go up a clean three in the event of a field goal so they go for two it's good the Raiders do kick that field goal and the game ends in a 43 43 tie to this day it's the highest scoring tie in NFL history two years later in 66 new york and washington played the highest scoring NFL game of all time 72 to 41 pete Gogolak kicked for new york his brother Charlie kicked for Washington together they kicked 14 extra points that day and thanks to those points this game still stands today is the greatest outlier in the history of NFL scoring it's also thanks to really really really bad tack whoo and finally after nearly 50 years of existence the nfl's concrete was beginning to set the AFL and the NFL had merged the Super Bowl became a fixture in the two-point conversion was done away with entirely the league's popularity grew in the art of score egami began to die in 1992 there was only one score egami the lowest number the NFL had ever seen it sure didn't help things at the extra point it'd become essentially a formality as the rules evolved the kicking got better and by the 50s extra points were nearly automatic in 1974 the goal was moved back and P 80s were slightly less automatic for a few years and then they rebounded and they became more automatic than ever in 2015 the extra points were moved back to the 15-yard line and even that only dipped the accuracy four or five percent and in 2016 is rebounding again but in 1994 the NFL finally brought themselves to innovate the NFL reintroduced the two-point conversion and in doing so they saved the art score egami this was the third great score egami bump in the years that followed NFL teams created score egami not only by making two-point conversions but by missing them week one of the 2002 season we saw one of the strangest endings to a game in NFL history the Chiefs and the Browns are in a dogfight cleveland scores a touchdown to take a 36 31 lead they go for two and they miss instantly putting this game on score egami Red Alert at this point in history there are plenty of scores involving a 36 that have never happened a few minutes later priest Holmes rushes for his third touchdown of the fourth quarter and the Chiefs missed their own 2-point conversion it's 37 36 if this holds it will be score Gani it doesn't hold the Browns drive downfield and kick a field goal with 29 seconds remaining it's 39 37 if this holds this will be scored on this isn't going to hold either because the damn of football weirdnesses bust wide open after the field goal the holder Chris Gardocki gets flagged for taunting one story says it was the kicker who actually did the taunting in any case a kicker or holder getting called for taunting basically never happens it backs up the ensuing kickoff and the Chiefs are aided by slightly better field position with two seconds left down by two at their own four seven the Chiefs have to go for broke halfway to the ground quarterback Trent Green shucks the ball in desperation to John Tate a lineman who has never run with the ball in his entire life all 315 pounds of John Tate Rumble all the way to the Cleveland 25 before he's forced out the clock hits zero and the coaches walk over to shake hands it's not over the officials call everyone off the field Dwayne Rudd who thought he sacked turned green to end the game never saw Tate scoop the ball and run with it he thought the game was over and he threw his helmet in celebration in the middle of the play that is a taunting penalty as a rule the Chiefs get one more untimed down and thanks to Tate's run at a little penalty yardage tacked on all Mordan Anderson had to do is chip in a 30-yard field goal 42 39 this is an exceptionally difficult score egami to achieve not only is one of the numbers difficult to build with an NFL score both of them are and not only that it required both teams to score at least 39 points which end of itself is very rare once every 391 games appropriately one of the most bizarre finishes of all time resulted in a score that might never happen again score egami is an exhaustible resource but it's not exhausted just yet this decade there have been 46 acts of score got me so far including one act of what I call low score gun in other words score egami in which both teens score 15 points fewer now these are really rare because the permutations required to make them are often very specific and very claustrophobic of course teams never actually try to make score egami because they don't know what it is because it's a word I made up but this low score egami of 13 to 8 is about as close as it gets to intentional with 10 seconds left the 49ers led 13 to 6 a score that had happened literally 50 times but Niners coach Jim Harbaugh doesn't want to punt it away so he instructs his punter and Ely to kill as much time as he can and take the safety if he has to he runs into the end zone to complete the score egami fun Harbaugh was a noted scorer egami artist during his time in the NFL Bill Belichick he also belongs in this category but the wizard of modern score egami without question is Seahawks coach Pete Carroll not only has he completed a league-leading seven score egami since 2010 he has won all Carroll's most famous score egami was a decade in the making and 2002 the Seahawks got a new stadium it rains a lot during football season in Seattle their solution was to build cantilever roofs above the stance keep the fans dry it did that but it also reflected crowd noise back toward the field the fans were loud the stadium made them louder the fans celebrated their loud reputation by being even louder and the stadium made their even louder noise even louder and so on this reputation grew as the team found success they played in their fruit Super Bowl after the 2005 season and five years later toward the end of a shocking playoff win the fans were so loud that they famously registered a miniature earthquake [Applause] this made Seahawks fans world-famous Li loud and they seem determined to uphold that reputation years later the Seahawks went to the Super Bowl across the country and the fans came with them on the first play from scrimmage the noise was deafening Peyton Manning turns to adjust the play his Center doesn't hear [Applause] it was the first game since at least 1994 and maybe the only NFL game ever to start with a safety on the first play from scrimmage it established both Seattle's dominance and Denver's awkward numerical footing and both made possible a forty three to eight Superbowl score gommi so as of the date is November 30th as of November 30th there have been five score agami this year so here's where we are opportunities are scarce there are some vacancies in the 32 point column that look kind of like a Tetris block with a rapid-fire laser cannon there are weird lonely on scratch villages like 25 to 18 2011 14 to 8 there are vast uncharted territories in the scoring Arctic reachable only if one or both teams score tons of points but even that is less remote than the four point canyon aside from that single ten to four game from 1923 no team has ever finished with four points under the current rules this Canyon seems forever out of reach but I I mean rules have changed before and they're going to change again if the NFL for example were ever to borrow the one-point Rouge from the CFL the four pointer would instantly become far more reachable now before we go I know I told you I would tell you about the six to one score okay so it's a scoreless game team a scores a touchdown let's say they go for two and they suffer a safety on a conversion attempt you only get one point for a safety not two so that is six to one but think about what would have to happen here the often Swede have to suffer a safety in their own end zone 98 yards in the wrong direction that might go something like this team a turns the ball over to team B team B runs it almost all the way back but they fumble right before they get to the end zone team a recovers in the end zone falls on the ball and is tackled this can be drawn I don't think it can be done until the day that's done there will always be one hole in this board and score egami will live forever [Music] [Music] looking for more great videos on YouTube I'm gonna level with you I think this is the only good YouTube video and I haven't even finished making this video so this one might not even be good I don't know so you might be kind of out of luck actually now that I think about it somebody actually showed me this trick to YouTube years ago and I can't remember who it was but basically if you go to youtube and you search the letters IMG and then a space and then any random four numbers like IMG 51 48 or IMG 0 9 6 8 something like that give it a search and you will find this collection of videos that were just automatically uploaded by some camera or system or something usually they were unintentional or accidental or automatic uploads so what this means is you'll find a lot of videos that have literally never been seen by anyone they have zero views and they've been up for years I saw one one time that it was this automated wildlife footage camera that just shot this up to YouTube zero view video of this like rabbit and deer like snacking on the same like piece of shrubbery or whatever and I was like this is amazing these two animals are getting together and I was the only one in years to have seen it and I just found that incredible so check that out if you're bored um don't go anywhere else on YouTube or the internet ever um oh and I actually know what go to a go to Pro Football Reference calm and the entire family of sports reference websites without their databases and there they're like cool searchable play indexes and all that there's no way I would have been able to make this video it is one of my favorite places on the internet so go check it out anyway thanks for watching

Channel: Secret Base

Views: 2,796,909

Keywords: jon bois, NFL, safety, touchdown, two point conversion, overtime

Id: 9l5C8cGMueY

Length: 21min 29sec (1289 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 07 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/BlindWillieJohnson]

Love Jon Bois

[u/HitchikersPie]

His videos can get dark

[u/Sora96]

A 1 in 470,897,555,931 chance of a 4-4 game? That's pretty spooky.

[u/bgazela]

this is a repost, but the video is great.

[u/Teves3D]

if I was a defensive player in the nfl I would totally tank my career to make a 6-1 possible.

edit: is it possible, on a blocked fg for a defensive player to pick it up and run it to the other side of the field and then fumble for the safety?

[u/kami232]

Neat!

[u/NYIsles55]

Just saw that video last night. Love his stuff.

[u/Warioworld]

1:70 odds to shut out a offense. didnt think it was that low but i guess it makes sense.

[u/The_New_York_Jets]

That's really interesting, I didn't know you could get a 1-point safety