Falcons’ two-point total is first in NFL playoff history

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The Atlanta Falcons scored two points in Sunday's wild-card loss to the New York Giants. How rare is it for a team to only score a safety in a game? Shutdown Corner looks back at the unusual history of the two-point finish.

• Atlanta's two-point total was the first such score in NFL playoff history and only the seventh in any game since the AFL-NFL merger.

• It was the first time a team's safety was its only score since 1993 when the Cincinnati Bengals lost to the New England Patriots, 7-2.

• Only 34 other times in NFL history has a team scored a total of two points in a game. Most of those games took place before 1940. In five of them, the winning team scored two points. The first 2-0 game was between the Akron Pros and Buffalo All-Americans. The final time it happened, in 1938, the teams were slightly better known: The Chicago Bears defeated the Green Bay Packers, 2-0.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/shutdown-corner/falcons-two-point-total-first-nfl-playoff-history-215655937.html

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1. Yeah, and us Packer fans are still bristling about that 2-0 loss to the Bears...

... Beating them four times in 2011 helped ease the pain a bit.