The formerly undefeated Green Bay packers went down in a shocker to Kansas City, 19-4. That makes the Packers's W-L numbers 13-1.
At the same time, for formerly winless Indianapolis Colts beat the Tennessee Titans 27-13, making the Colts 1-13.
Isn't that a curious coincidence? I am reminded of Yogi Berra's observation, "It's too coincidental to be a coincidence."
Obviously, the number of wins and losses in the NFL must equal. After all, in every game one teams loses and the other wins (disregarding the extremely rare tie game, allowed by rule but very difficult actually to obtain).
And if the Packers had won today and the Colts also, the ratio of 1:1 win-loss across the league would not have changed. Still, it's almost eerie that both teams had a "1" entered onto their respective records at the same time. Seems sort of cosmic... .
But there is no determinism at work here. Going into today's game, there were six teams with 10-3 records, but none with 3-10.
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