Eight

[stoutfellow]

Here's an oddity about last night's game. There are only three ways to score eight points in American football: a touchdown and two-point conversion, a safety and two field goals, or four safeties. The last is virtually impossible (and would be deeply embarrassing for the other team). Each of last night's teams had, at one point, exactly eight points: Seattle by the second method, Denver by the first.

Also? Nate Silver reports that that was the first 43-8 final score in NFL history.

ETA: Oops. There's a fourth way: safety plus TD with missed PAT. Oh, well.

Comments

[mmegaera]

I think I'm most amused by the fact that Peyton completed a Super Bowl record number of passes, and still lost 43-8.

Or not. My grin muscles are starting to hurt, but I can't stop [g].

[stoutfellow]

I'd be the same way, in a comparable position. I think it's that it's the first that makes it so special. (Alas, the Padres have lost their two World Series, and the Chargers their one Super Bowl.)

[mmegaera]

Well, it certainly beats heck out of Super Bowl 40, when the refs helped the Stealers beat the 'Hawks, I have to say. [wry g].

Looking forward to the parade on Wednesday, too. If it's anything like what went on in the streets of Seattle (and Tacoma, and Everett, and Yakima, and Spokane...) last night, it's going to be one whale of a party.