What Team Scored the Most Points in an NFL Game?

The New England Patriots scored the most points in an NFL game when they defeated the Miami Dolphins, 59-0.

Introduction

In American football, the team that scores the most points in a given game is the winner. Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including touchdowns, field goals, and extra points.

The National Football League (NFL) is the highest level of professional football in the United States. Each year, NFL teams compete against each other to try and score the most points over the course of a season. The team with the most points at the end of the season is crowned the winner of the Super Bowl, which is the biggest and most important game in American football.

So, what team has scored the most points in an NFL game? Read on to find out!

The Highest Scoring Teams in NFL History

In an NFL game, the team that scores the most points wins the game. This seems like an obvious statement, but there have been some teams that have scored a lot of points in a game and still lost. In this article, we will take a look at the teams that have scored the most points in an NFL game.

The New England Patriots

The New England Patriots have the highest scoring game in NFL history, when they defeated the Miami Dolphins, 51-10 on December 12, 2010. The Patriots also have the second highest scoring game in NFL history, when they defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 59-24 on November 4, 2012.

The Los Angeles Rams

The Los Angeles Rams scored the most points in an NFL game when they defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 55-40 on November 12, 2018. The Rams’ points total is the second-most in NFL history, behind only the New England Patriots’ record-setting performance against the Miami Dolphins in January 1972. The Rams’ 55 points are also the most ever scored by a team in a game that went to overtime.

The Denver Broncos

The Denver Broncos have the highest scoring game in NFL history, having scored a total of 76 points against the Baltimore Ravens in 2013. The Broncos also have the second highest scoring game, having scored 73 points against the New England Patriots in 2012.

The Lowest Scoring Teams in NFL History

The San Francisco 49ers once held the record for the lowest score in an NFL game, with just two points in a game against the New York Giants. That record has since been broken, but there have been a number of teams that have come close. In this article, we’ll take a look at the lowest scoring teams in NFL history.

The New York Jets

In 2007, the Jets became the first team in NFL history to score only one touchdown in a game and lose. It was a Monday Night Football matchup against the New England Patriots, and the Jets lost, 48-28. The 24-point margin of defeat was the largest in franchise history for a Monday night game.

The Miami Dolphins

The 1972 Miami Dolphins season was the team’s seventh season, and third in the National Football League (NFL). The 1972 Dolphins team remains the only NFL team to go undefeated in a season, which included 17 regular season games and 3 post-season games.

The 2007 New England Patriots scored the most points of any team in a single season with 589 (an average of 36.8 points per game).

The Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays their home games at New Era Field in Orchard Park, New York. The Bills are the only NFL team that plays their home games in the state of New York[2] The Bills conduct summer training camp at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, New York, an eastern suburb of Rochester.

The Bills began play as an original franchise of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960. They joined the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger in 1970, and then played in that league for only their second season in 1971. The club has appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls (1991–1994), but lost each game. They are the only team to lose four consecutive Super Bowls. The team has yet to win a championship, and their closest chance came in 1999 when they lost to the Tennessee Titans on field goal by Frank Wycheck with three seconds left on the clock.[3]

In 1995, owner Ralph Wilson made an unsuccessful bid to have Public Enemy perform “buffalo syndrome” during halftime at Super Bowl XXIX.[4]

Conclusion

The record for the most points scored in an NFL game is held by the New England Patriots, who scored 62 points against the Tennessee Titans in 2012.