The Steelers beat the Chargers Sunday 11-10. It was the first time an NFL game has ended with that score. That and some other numerology from The Numbers Guy including this:
These statistics come courtesy of Doug Drinen, a mathematician at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., who maintains the Web site Pro Football Reference. Of 13,480 games played in the NFL and its predecessors going back to 1920, through Sunday, 218 ended in scores of 20-17, the most-common final score. The runner-up, 17-14, has occurred 177 times. Five times a team has won by the margin of a single safety, 2-0. No team has ever won with four points — two safeties — and just eight times has a team won with eight points, which is a touchdown and a two-point conversion or two field goals and a safety.