Couple of NFL notes...

Not that I think the Pack needed any referee help in the 45-7 win over the Vikings (and the 7 was basically a direct result of a punt muff on the part of the Pack), but it is interesting to note that the Vikings were called for 10 penalties in the game. The Packers? ONLY ONE. A false-start on the first snap of the second quarter.

HOW IN THE BLUE HELL DO YOU GO AN ENTIRE NFL GAME IN THIS DAY AND AGE WITH ONE PENALTY AND THAT KIND OF DIFFERENTIAL?

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This whole Tim Tebow phenomenon has got me thinking and watching.

Thanks to our friends at Pro Football Reference, I decided to search all games in which the winning team had 8 or fewer passing attempts.

Other than the Tebow Bowl on Sunday, here are the only times since 2000:

• New England 13 - Buffalo 0. 12/28/2008. Last game of the season probably had lots to do with it, as Matt Cassel went 6-8 for 78 yards.
• Dallas 32 - Washington 13. 12/10/2000. Real odd one here, as two quarterbacks split duty to only have 8 passing attempts. (Troy Aikman had 3, Anthony Wright had 5.)
• Carolina 10 - Atlanta 3. 12/24/2006. Chris Weinke, 4-7 for 32 yards and the only touchdown of the match. DeShaun Foster and DeAngelo Williams combined for 49 rushes for 184 yards.
• Finally, San Diego 21 - Cleveland 0. 12/19/2004. Drew Brees, 4-6 for 85 yards and a score. San Diego, led by LDT, had run the ball 51 times. (LDT: 26 for 111 and 2 TD's.)

So only four other times (five total) in the league since 2000, and never, in any of those wins, outside of the month of December.

The next time it happened before that, that a team won with 8 or fewer pass attempts, was December 12, 1982. New England beat Miami (in Foxboro) 3-0, Steve Grogan 2-5 with a pick. I think you can guess that there were probably contributing factors. (Yes, this was the famous Snow Plow Game.)

There have been two pro football games since 1940 in which the winning team attempted no passes. One in 1941, one in 1950.