Scorigami
In sports, a scorigami is a final score that has never happened before in a sport or league's history. The term was coined in a 2014 article by sportswriter Jon Bois for American football scores in the National Football League, and is primarily used in this context; it has also been applied sparingly across other sports leagues.
Introduction
In a 2014 article for SB Nation and subsequent 2016 YouTube video on their Secret Base channel, Jon Bois defined Scorigami as "the act, and art, of producing a final score in a football game that has never happened before." In football, points can be scored by touchdowns, field goals, and safeties, with teams able to score 1 or 2 points on extra-point attempts after touchdowns. This uneven distribution, and their differing frequencies in play, means that some scorelines are more probable than others. Bois charted the history of scorelines in the NFL and noted gaps in the chart for various scorelines that have never occurred, dubbing these potential "scorigamis". As an example, the Seattle Seahawks' 43–8 win over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII was a scorigami, as no prior NFL game had ever finished 43–8. Two other Broncos Super Bowl losses, Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXIV, are also examples of the concept.Bois also notes in the 2016 video that American football is the largest sport in the U.S., and perhaps the world, where unique scores still regularly occur, as the vast majority of common sports will only allow points to be scored one at a time, such as soccer or hockey, or in much smaller multi-point increments, as in the case of basketball.
In 2025, Jon Bois revisited Scorigami in a 4-part series on Secret Base. Most notably, he highlights a score of 10–1 as being one of, if not the most, unlikely NFL scorigami that can be achieved within the bounds of human possibility. This is due to the improbably unlikely event of 1 point being scored by the defense after a TD, combined with the exceptionally rare probability of two safeties to achieve a score of 10 from 6, combined with the condition that neither team scores additional points.