Historic high-scoring TIE, OT games

[74_75_78_79_]

In regards to today's Panthers 37 Bengals 37 stalemate, what other examples of high-scoring tie, overtime games can you give? Being a Steelers fan, it's obvious that I start with 35-apiece at Denver Week #2 of '74 and 34-34 vs Vick's Falcons Week #9 of '02.

[sheajets]

Jets and Broncos played to a 35-35 tie in 1963.

[Rupert Patrick]

A few OT tidbits:

Today's tie was the highest scoring tie in NFL history they said after the game, but the 1960 Broncos Bills game was a 38-38 tie.

This was also the first tie in the history of the Panthers franchise, and the 20th regular season OT game to end in a tie since OT was started in 1974.

The Packers have been involved in the most ties, five, followed by Philadelphia, who has had four ties, and Minnesota with three.

Green Bay and Minnesota is the only matchup that has produced two ties, as they tied in 1978 and also in 2013.

1997 was the only season that has had two tie games occur in the season.

The longest amount to time between ties was eight years, there were no ties from 1990-96.

Tennessee, Houston, Oakland, San Diego, New England, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas and New Orleans have not suffered a tie in the era of OT. The 1974 Steelers are the only Super Bowl winner of the 1974-present era to have a tie, but three Super Bowl losing teams, the 1976 Vikings, 1987 Broncos and 2012 49ers, have had a tie.

[MatthewToy]

The first NFL regular season tie was a 35-35 game between Denver and Pittsburgh in 74. Odd that they couldn't score at all in the extra quarter.

[Mark L. Ford]

Surprisingly, Thursday will mark the 50th anniversary of the highest scoring tie ever --
October 16, 1964, Oakland Raiders 43 @ Boston Patriots 43

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/b ... 160nwe.htm

[oldecapecod11]

Reads like a Dennis Hopper film "Tie Me Up; Tie Me Down."

Eventually, this will have to be another "ass-terisk" stat - before OT and after OT and another dozen-or-so categories to be named later.

Every major city will have a searchlight: Calling

[BD Sullivan]

The first NFL regular season tie was a 35-35 game between Denver and Pittsburgh in 74. Odd that they couldn't score at all in the extra quarter.

The only time either team came close was with just over three minutes left in OT, when Denver's Jim Turner was wide on a 41-yard FG attempt.

[BD Sullivan]

Surprisingly, Thursday will mark the 50th anniversary of the highest scoring tie ever --
October 16, 1964, Oakland Raiders 43 @ Boston Patriots 43

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/b ... 160nwe.htm

It was a wild final minute of action: the Patriot touchdown came with just 48 seconds left, and the Raider FG with just five seconds remaining.

[Mark L. Ford]

That must have been interesting to watch. I think the oddity would be in finding a low-scoring AFL game. Even shutouts seem to have been infrequent in the AFL in the 1960s.

Going back to Rupert's original criteria-- highest tie games after 75 minutes-- yesterday's 37-37 game tops the list, followed by that 35-35 Steelers-Broncos game in 1974. Rounding out the top five are the Steelers-Falcons (11/10/02) 34-34; Jets-Dolphins (10/4/81) 28-28, the same season that the Dolphins and Chargers went into overtime at 38-38 in the playoffs; and Vikings-Packers (11/24/13) 26-26.

There was a wild game on November 27, 1983 at the Kingdome, where Norm Johnson kicked a 42 yard field goal to create a 48-48 tie at the end of regulation with the Chiefs. In overtime, Johnson kicked another 42 yard field goal for the 51-48 win. Even wilder is that all three of his field goals that day were from 42 yards out.

[BD Sullivan]

That must have been interesting to watch. I think the oddity would be in finding a low-scoring AFL game. Even shutouts seem to have been infrequent in the AFL in the 1960s.

In the 10 years of the AFL, there was only one game in which both teams were held under 10 points. On 11/10/63 at Fenway Park, the Chargers nipped the Pats, 7-6. The low score can be attributed to the rain-soaked field, which not surprisingly had Sid Gillman throwing a fit. His main complaint was that the Pats were too cheap to get another tarpaulin, since the one they did use only covered the baseball infield. While it's doubtful it was foremost in his mind two months later, the Chargers destroyed Boston in the AFL title game, 51-10--this time in nice, sunny San Diego:

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/b ... 100nwe.htm