SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The first Monday Night Football game of the year made history in its own way.
The San Francisco 49ers defeated the New York Jets 32-19 to wrap up Week 1 of the NFL season Monday night, the first time that final score has ever happened in an NFL game.
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.
Monday night's game attained Scorigami status in the closing seconds, when Tyrod Taylor threw a three-yard touchdown pass to Allen Lazard to make the score 32-19 with 25 seconds remaining. A two-point conversion attempt, which would have spoiled the Scorigami attempt, failed and the 49ers ran out the clock.
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 291 times in league history, more than 50 games ahead of it's closest competition, the 27-24 final, which has happened 234 times in the NFL.
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 scores to not yet "hit" are the 4-0 and 2-2 finals, 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.