![]() In the late 1960s, scoring steeply declined, bottoming out in 1977 when teams averaged just 17.2 points per game. As you can see, scoring dropped steadily until 1958, then bounced back and trended upward. ![]() The thick blue line represents the actual figures, while the thin red line is the four-year moving average. This graph shows the NFL's league-wide average points scored per game for each season since 1950: Let's look at how teams have scored across NFL history. With unprecedented amounts of passing leading to all-time highs in offensive output, is this the most explosive era of offense in NFL history? 2012 is the fourth-highest-scoring of all time. The NFL as a whole is averaging 22.6 points per game this season, on pace to be tied for the fifth-highest-scoring season ever. Over the broad sweep of 94 NFL seasons, only 37 quarterbacks have over 30,000 career passing yards-and six (16.2 percent) of them are starting this weekend. Per Pro-Football-Reference, seven of the top 10 passing seasons of all time have occurred in the past two years, and seven or eight quarterbacks this season have a legitimate shot at cracking the list. Just three years after Marino was knocked out of the top spot, he may be relegated to ninth place. ![]() In fact, five players are on pace to top Marino's old record this season.
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