Season finale tie-games

[74_75_78_79_]

There are none that I can actually recall. Any that any of you can?

[BD Sullivan]

There are none that I can actually recall. Any that any of you can?

Looks like there were three:

1961: Browns @ Giants 7-7
1964: Packers @ Rams 24-24
1965: Packers @ 49ers 24-24

[conace21]

A few teams in the 1930's ended their seasons with scoreless ties.

1933: Boston Redskins and Chicago Cardinals.

1935: Boston Redskins and Brooklyn Dodgers.

1936: Green Bay Packers and Chicago Cardinals.

In 1941, the Packers and Cleveland Rams ended their seasons with a 13-13 tie.

[LJP]

Some older ones: -

1920: Staleys vs Akron - on a cold day and a muddy field, the game that decided the APFA championship was played to a 0-0 tie, in 12 minute quarters
1921: Staleys vs Cardinals - the two teams had not played each other in 1921, until the finale which will billed as the City Championship Game and finished 0-0
1926: Bears vs Packers - played at Soldier Field for a Memorial Fund, the icy field resulted in a 3-3 tie

[Ronfitch]

A few teams in the 1930's ended their seasons with scoreless ties.

1933: Boston Redskins and Chicago Cardinals.

1935: Boston Redskins and Brooklyn Dodgers.

1936: Green Bay Packers and Chicago Cardinals.

In 1941, the Packers and Cleveland Rams ended their seasons with a 13-13 tie.

Just reading Larry D. Names' second volume on the Packer history and the '36 season is included. With two games left, both the Packers and Bears were at 9-1 and had split head-to-head meetings. By the time the Packers played the Cards in the season closer, the Bears had already dropped their second of the two remaining games, the final to the 3-6 Cards on 11/29. Lambeau rested his starters for the game with the Cards on 12/6 to prepare for the trip to NYC and the Giants in the championship game (the Names books are great so far, IMO; the scheduling of multiple games in a week, that for many years teams scheduled their own opponents, playing non-league teams as warmup or late season exhibition games is just one thing I did not know much about that he gets a bit into the weeds about ... to say nothing of bigger things in volume one).

It was actually '40 for the Packer-Rams 13-13 tie to end the season (in '41 the Packers tied the Bears for the West and the league had a playoff game to determine who would go on to the championship game, which the Bears won).

[Bryan]

1965: Packers @ 49ers 24-24

This was a huge game. The previous week, the 9-3 Packers had leapfrogged the 9-2-1 Colts by winning 42-27 in Baltimore (Paul Hornung 17 touches, 176 yards, 5 TDs) and seemingly clinched their spot in the title game. Going into the final week of the season, the Packers would wrap up the conference by defeating the 49ers. The Niners turned the ball over 5 times yet Brodie and Co. managed the 24-24 tie. The Colts won their game, setting up the 1965 playoff game and culminating in the increase of the height of the goalposts.