The Minnesota Vikings just flat-out beat the Green Bay Packers 39-22 on September 13, 2026, and get this: that specific final score has *literally* never happened before in the history of the NFL. This wasn’t some ordinary Week 1 victory, nah. This was a “Scorigami,” the 1097th unique score ever recorded in the league! Jordan Mason even plunged into the end zone for a fourth-quarter touchdown at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, locking in this piece of bizarre history. How wild is it that we’re only one week into the 2026 season and the record books are already getting rewritten?
When the Scoreboard Gets Seriously Weird
So what the heck *is* a Scorigami, anyway? It’s basically when an NFL game finishes with a score that’s never, ever been seen before. Think about that! Usually, these pop up when a team either goes absolutely bonkers and drops a “boatload of points,” or things get super funky with two-point conversions and some wild gamesmanship. For the Vikings and Packers, it was definitely the latter. The Packers actually missed an extra point way back in the first quarter, but believe it or not, that wasn’t the big reason for the unique score here. Nope, things stayed pretty vanilla until the fourth quarter when Minnesota *really* decided to step on the gas. They scored to snatch the lead, then pulled off a clutch two-point conversion to go up 25-22. Just pause on that: scoring 25 points in an NFL game is straight-up weird. But the Vikings weren’t done! They piled on two more seven-point touchdowns after that, pushing their total to a wild 39 points. A 39-point day? Yeah, that’s pretty rare, which totally explains why 39-22 had never graced an NFL scoreboard before. (And hey, a 32-22 score also hasn’t ever happened, for those of us obsessed with these kinds of stats!)
Is This Scorigami Season Already?
And get this: this 39-22 stunner wasn’t even the *only* Scorigami of NFL Week 1 in 2026! We actually got two of them to kick off the season. Earlier, the Chicago Bears dropped a massive 59 points on the Carolina Panthers, making their final score a first-timer too. The NFL averages around four Scorigamis every single season, year in and year out. And you know what? We’re already halfway there just one week into the 2026 campaign! Last year, during the 2025 season, we saw exactly four Scorigamis pop up, including one right in Week 1, mirroring what we just witnessed. Remember those wild ones? The Bills edged out the Ravens 41-40, the Cowboys and Packers battled to an insane 40-40 tie, the Texans beat the Jaguars 36-29, and the Bills took down the Buccaneers 44-32. Crazy stuff.
With two Scorigamis already hitting the scoreboard in Week 1, and the league averaging around four total per season, we’re flying towards that annual average. Will we see another one pop up in Week 2? Will the scoreboard chaos keep going? You know we’ll be glued to every single snap to find out what kind of wildness the NFL dishes out next. This season is already delivering!
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Originally reported by Daily Norseman.
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