1) In a 16-game regular season, what team has the highest low point total in their games? In other words, this is the only team to score 24 or more points in every game.
The 1998 Minnesota Vikings, with rookie Randy Moss, Randall Cunningham, Cris Carter, and Robert Smith, scored 24 points or more in every game of their 15-1 season, setting record of 556 points scored, which has since been eclipsed by the 2007 Patriots and 2013 Broncos. (mumble, mumble, Gary Anderson…)
2) After reading Jason’s first trivia, I decided to do some digging. Since 1940, only two other teams scored more than 20 points in every game, including the postseason. Both teams were from the ’50s.
The 1959 Baltimore Colts scored 21 or more points in all 15 games. That year, Johnny Unitas, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry were in their primes — all were born in 1933 — and helped the Colts repeat as NFL champs. (Alan Ameche was also born in 1933, and left tackle Jim Parker was born in ’34. Despite being set up for a long run of success, the team lost at least six games in each of the next four years.)
3) Now, on to something more forgettable: What team has the lowest high point total in their 16 regular season games? In other words, this team scored 17 or fewer points in each of its games.
The passing game wasn’t quite as good, to put it mildly. Their leading receiver was a running back (not the 1,000-yard rusher), and he had 556 yards receiving. Their top wideout had just 369 yards, but hey, he led the team in receiving touchdowns… with three!
The 2-14 1992 Seattle Seahawks topped out at 17 points, and only managed to do that twice during the season (and lost both games). Seattle’s 140 points is still the lowest total for a team in a 16-game season, and, in this day and age, seems likely to stand for a while. Running back Chris Warren rushed for 1,017 yards on 4.6 yards per carry, and the defense was actually pretty good, finishing in the top half of the league in both yards per carry and net yards per attempt allowed. And, as you may know, Cortez Kennedy won the Defensive Player of the Year award, a feat even J.J. Watt couldn’t match last year.
Since 1940, only one other team failed to score more than 17 points in at least one game: the 1974 Falcons, with the legendary trio of Bob Lee, Pat Sullivan, and, of course, Kim McQuilken. You already know who was the team’s head coach.
