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Here's a look at the most prolific scoring offenses in NFL or AFL history, included all 46 teams that averaged 30.0 PPG or more over the course of an entire season.
The 2007 Patriots finished with the second most productive offense in the history of the game, averaging 36.81 PPG. Only the 1950 Rams scored more (38.83 PPG).
It should be noted that just 12 of these 46 teams won an NFL or AFL championship. As always, balance in many areas is more importance than dominance in one single area.
Anytime you see a statistical anomaly, such as an all-time record, there are usually extenuating circumstances involved. And the scoring record of the 1950 Rams is no exception.
The NFL in 1950 absorbed three teams from the All-America Football Conference, the Browns, Baltimore Colts and 49ers. The AAFC's N.Y. Bulldogs, meanwhile, merged with the NFL's N.Y. Yankees and were renamed the N.Y. Yanks for the 1950 season.
The Yanks, Colts and 49ers each ended up in the newly renamed National Conference with the Rams. The Yanks and Colts proceeded to field two of the worst defenses in the entire history of the NFL. The Colts surrendered 462 points that season. The Yanks surrendered 367. The 49ers, in their first year in the NFL, struggled to a 3-9 record and fielded the worst offense in football that year (213 points).
The Rams played five of their 12 games against these three teams.
The Colts were so bad that they folded immediately after the 1950 season (but returned in 1953). The Yanks folded after the 1951 season, never to return to the NFL.
