Factoid
Only 15 teams ever have scored over 500 points in a season. Three of them will be involved in the upcoming postseason.
Green Bay and New Orleans finished the regular season in the top 4 all-time in scoring. New England finished 11th. (Further down are the Lions – one of fewer than 30 teams to average over 29 points per game in the last 35 years).
Note that the Patriots join the Greatest Show on Turf Rams as just the third team to go over 500 points three times – 2007, 2010 and 2011.
If two of these teams wind up in the Super Bowl, the game could be similar to what we saw yesterday out of Oregon vs. Wisconsin and Stanford against Oklahoma State.
HIGHEST SCORING TEAMS
(Since the move to the 16-game schedule in 1978)
Pts Year
589 2007 New England
560 2011 Green Bay
556 1998 Minnesota
547 2011 New Orleans
541 1983 Washington
540 2000 St. Louis
526 1999 St. Louis
522 2004 Indianapolis
518 2010 New England
513 1984 Miami
513 2011 New England
510 2009 New Orleans
505 1994 San Francisco
503 2001 St. Louis
501 1998 Denver
492 2006 San Diego
485 1991 Washington
485 2000 Denver
484 2003 Kansas City
483 2004 Kansas City
479 1983 Dallas
479 1998 San Francisco
479 2000 Oakland
478 1981 San Diego
475 1984 San Francisco
474 2011 Detroit
473 1993 San Francisco
472 1997 Denver
470 2009 Minnesota
467 1985 San Diego
467 2002 Kansas City
—Ian Allan
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