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Texans' wild win over Bucs ended with score that's never happened in NFL history

Houston's touchdown in the final seconds not only gave them a thrilling win, but it made a "scorigami" - the first time a 39-37 score ever happened in the NFL.

HOUSTON — The Houston Texans improbable 39-37 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday was historic, right down to the final score. 

Quarterback C.J. Stroud threw for 470 yards — an NFL rookie record — and five touchdowns, including the game-winner to Tank Dell to cap off an 8-play, 75-yard drive that took only 40 seconds of the final minute of the game. Houston even got a 29-yard field goal from running back Dare Ogunbowale, the first non-kicker or punter to convert a field goal in more than 19 years. 

And to top it off, the game marked the first time in NFL history that a game ended with that exact final score

In NFL parlance, it's become known as a "scorigami," thanks to a website that tracks the final score of every game in NFL history in search of the next "unique" final score. 

According to the NFL Scorigami account on X, formerly known as Twitter, the scorigami concept was first suggested by Jon Bois, with a website charting every final score in league history developed by Dave Mattingly.

In the same way fantasy football has fans across the country occasionally cheering against their own favorite team if a rival can score a few points, posts to the Scorigami account are full of replies of fans who claim to only be cheering for the uniqueness of a final score. 

If you're curious, the most frequent final score in NFL history, according to Mattingly's site, is 20-17, which has happened 286 times in league history, more than 50 games ahead of it's closest competition, the 27-24 final.

While there hasn't been a 0-0 final score since the Giants and Lions went scoreless on Nov. 7, 1943, there have been 73 games in NFL history where neither team registered a point. 

The lowest possible score to not yet "hit" is the 4-0 final, though five teams have won games 2-0 and three more have won with 5-0 finals. On the other end of the spectrum is the Chicago Bears' 73-0 shutout of Washington on Dec. 8, 1940, and the highest-scoring of the 1,078 unique final scores in NFL history — Washington's 72-41 win over the New York Giants on Nov. 27, 1966. 

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