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No D in Big D

Denver beats Dallas in shootout

Broncos outscore Cowboys in a Loyola-Marymount type game. 99 total points. For only the 23rd time since the merger in 1970, both teams scored 40-plus points in the same game.

With the way teams are scoring this year, it might not be the last time it happens this season. It's happened seven times in the last seven years.

Here's the rundown. For overtime games, those are designated with an asterisk. (And note that four of those seven OT games were settled by touchdowns rather than field goals.)

BOTH TEAMS SCORING 40-PLUS POINTS
YearWinnerScoreLoserScore
1971N.Y. Giants42at Green Bay40
1972Minnesota45at L.A. Rams41
*1983at Seattle51Kansas City48
*1983at Atlanta47Green By41
1983at Green Bay48Washington47
1985San Diego44at Cincinnati41
1985at San Diego54Pittsburgh44
1986Green Bay44at Detroit40
1986at Kansas City42San Diego41
*1986at N.Y. Jets51Miami45
*1989Buffalo47at Houston Oilers41
1997at Philadelphia44Cincinnati42
1998Arizona45at Washington42
*2003at Baltimore44Seattle41
2004at Cincinnati58Cleveland48
2006San Diego49at Cincinnati41
2007at Cleveland51Cincinnati45
2007at Atlanta44Seattle41
2008at Chicago48Minnesota41
*2009at Arizona51Green By45
2011at Green Bay45Detroit41
*2012at Tennessee44Detroit41
2013Denver51at Dallas48

--Ian Allan

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