How Many Ties Have There Been in NFL History?
How many ties have there been in NFL history? The answer may surprise you – there have been quite a few! In this blog post, we take a look at how many ties there have been in NFL history, and some of the most famous ones.
Introduction
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues, the highest professional level of American football in the world. NFL games are Sundays, with most of them televised on nationally broadcast networks such as CBS, FOX, NBC, and ESPN.
The regular season runs from September to December, with each team playing 16 games. There are also four preseason games for each team, although these are not televised as much as the regular season games. After the regular season, six teams from each conference compete in the playoffs. The playoffs culminate in the Super Bowl, which is held in February and is one of the most watched television events in the United States.
During a typical NFL game, there are multiple ties – usually between 3 and 7 per game. However, there have been a few games where there have been more than 10 ties. The most ties in an NFL game happened in a matchup between the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles in 2016, where there were 11 ties. The second-most happened in a game between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins in 2019, where there were 9 ties.
List of NFL Ties by Year
The NFL has had 177 ties in its history. The most recent tie was in 2016, between the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals. The Seahawks and the Cardinals are also the teams that have tied the most, with 6 ties each.
2016
There were two tie games in the NFL in 2016, both of which occurred in Week 11. The first tie was between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals, and the second was between the Cincinnati Bengals and Washington Redskins.
2015
In 2015, there were two ties in the NFL regular season. Week 11 saw the Cincinnati Bengals and Carolina Panthers play to a 37-37 draw, and Week 12 saw the Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks finish in a 6-6 tie.
2014
In 2014, there were three ties in the NFL:
– Week 6: The Cincinnati Bengals and Carolina Panthers tied at 37.
– Week 10: The San Francisco 49ers and St. Louis Rams tied at 20.
– Week 16: The Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers tied at 21.
Conclusion
Since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, there have been 190 ties. That works out to an average of slightly more than three per season. Despite the relative frequency of ties, they are still somewhat rare. In the past 10 seasons, there have been only 23, an average of about 2.3 per year.
