NFL rarity: Pair of games finish with scoreline seen just twice before

The late afternoon slate for Week 10 of the NFL was rather lackluster for viewers. All three games finished with at least a two-possession deficit, and interestingly enough, two of those three games finished with the same final score.

Deja vu with 44-22

Entering Sunday, a final score of 44-22 had happened just twice in NFL history, per Pro Football Reference. The first occurrence came all the way back in November of 1967. The second came on Oct. 19 of this year, setting up Sunday's rare situation.

Two games, one being the Detroit Lions-Washington Commanders game and the other the Arizona Cardinals-Seattle Seahawks contest, finished with a 44-22 final score on Sunday.

After happening just once before the 2025 NFL season, the score has now appeared three times in a three-week span. It just goes to show that something historic is happening in sports each and every week.

What are the chances it happens again?

With the way that teams and coaches are so aggressive with fourth-down play calls, it feels that more and more high scoring games and interesting score combinations are happening.

As we've seen, though, with the 58-year gap in the score, it may be decades before the score pops up again in an NFL game.