Scorigami
A final sports score that has never previously occurred in the tracked history of that league, especially in the NFL.
“The game ended 36–23, and sports TikTok immediately checked whether it was a scorigami.”
Scorigami is used by sports fans when an unusual combination of points produces a previously unseen final score. It is most strongly associated with the NFL because football scoring creates many possible but uncommon totals, though fans now track the idea in other sports too. Online, calling scorigami is part statistics, part celebration, and part sports-internet ritual.
Sports writer and video creator Jon Bois coined and popularized the concept through SB Nation and the 2016 video The Art of Scorigami. The name blends score with origami, suggesting that teams fold familiar scoring pieces into a new final shape. Live trackers and social accounts helped turn it into common football-internet vocabulary.
NFL scorigami
A final NFL score that had never occurred in league history before that game.
team scorigami
A score combination that is new for one particular team, even if another team has produced it.
near-scorigami
An informal label for a game that nearly reaches a previously unseen score before a late scoring change.
Does scorigami mean a high-scoring game?
No. A low, awkward, or ordinary-looking total can qualify as long as that exact final-score combination is new.
Is scorigami only used for football?
It began as an NFL concept, but fans have adapted it to baseball, basketball, hockey, and other sports.
Who created the term scorigami?
Jon Bois coined and popularized the term through his sports writing and video work.
Can the same score be a scorigami twice?
Under the standard definition, only the first occurrence is the true league-wide scorigami; later repeats are no longer new.