What Is A Scorigami In The NFL?

On any given Sunday, amazing feats of strength and agility are accomplished on the NFL gridiron. For the average person, it may seem incredible enough that the players take the hits they take and get up to continue playing. Even the casual football fan has likely heard about touchdowns and field goals, safeties, and punt returns. There is one less well-known football term that's come up in recent years: a Scorigami. But what exactly is a Scorigami?

Per the NFL Football Operations website, the final score in any NFL game is a combination of eights, sevens, sixes, threes, twos, and ones — the point values associated with all the different ways to score points in the game. Score a touchdown, for example, and that's six points. Allowed after a touchdown is what's called an extra point attempt, or the choice to kick the ball through the goalposts, tacking on one additional point for a total of seven. This is the most common way to score in the game, and those extra points are made so often, touchdowns are often assumed to be worth seven points. 

For this reason, the final score of an NFL game is often divisible by seven. It isn't always the case that those extra points are made, though, and there are many other scoring combinations that can occur, like when teams choose to try for two points after a six-point touchdown, leaving them with eight points on a scoring drive. All this creates the potential for some unusual number combinations in the final score of a game between the two teams, and when a combination happens for the first time ever, this is referred to as a Scorigami.