It has been two days now since the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers game ended in a 40-40 tie.
It was the second-highest-scoring tie in NFL history and the first time ever that a game ended with that exact final score.
The only tie game to see more points in league history was a 43-43 draw between the Oakland Raiders and Boston Patriots on Oct. 16, 1964.
With that said, the NFL regular season is the only major sport out of the four; MLB, NBA and the NHL all make sure someone has a winner and a loser even in the regular season.
As good as that game was, someone needed to be on the losing and winning end of it, and these guys work way to hard for them to just pack it up and go home without having one result or the other.
Time For A Change?
I am not a huge fan of the college rule where you just go for two until someone wins, etc.
I am not making this post to try and tell them how to change it, I just think someone should always win and lose in a major sport like the NFL, just like the three major sports.
Head Coach of the Chiefs, Andy Reid, had a few words about it:
“Nobody wants a tie, I don’t think, but that’s what goes on,” Reid said. “You’re juggling a lot of different things when you do this. You’ve got TV and how that works — and the media is a big part of it — and then you’ve got time restrictions, so on and so forth, (that) these guys all have to look at that.
Before the 2025 season, the both-teams-possess rule only existed in the postseason. It now applies in the regular season, too. But in a 10-minute period, that can make finding a victory tricky.
In the last decade, 18 teams have finished a regular season game with a tie. Of those 18 teams, only three of them reached the postseason and advanced no further than the divisional round.
At the end of the day, these games do not end in a tie that much, so when it happens, we all want to have it changed, and that is the issue.
They do not happen enough to where I think the NFL front office does anything about it. They may vote on it next offseason if this tie messes with the playoff seeding, but hard to see that being the case.
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