Something Just Happened for the First Time Ever in the Rich Eisen Show’s ‘NFL Win-Loss Game’!!!

The Win-Loss Game has a simple structure. A fan calls in, Rich reads their team's schedule one game at a time, and the caller says win or loss. That is the whole deal. Sadler in Madison, Wisconsin decided the whole deal needed a third option.

Sadler's Packers season started reasonably. A close win in Minnesota against Kyler Murray and the Vikings. A definite win at the Jets, with a reason he began to explain before Rich cut him off. "You don't have to finish that sentence," Rich said, and the point had already landed.

Three and oh came at home against Atlanta on Thursday night, and Sadler took the Packers even knowing the Falcons have Tua Tagovailoa. Then Tampa Bay got him, since the last time the Packers played the Bucs they lost. He gave a home game against the Bears back to Green Bay, mostly because losing those has not been the Packers' habit in years.

Then came the Cowboys at Lambeau.

"Do it, Sadler," the room chanted. And Sadler did something nobody had ever done on this show.

"Give this one a tie."

The reaction was immediate and loud. First tie in the history of the segment, and Rich accepted the answer, which meant the running tally now had a third column in it.

From there Sadler kept working. The Lions on the money line at Detroit. Packers over the Panthers on Thursday night. New England, because his friend Evan Cohen of All Sports Everything is a Patriots fan and that apparently counts as analysis. Minnesota again, even at Lambeau.

The Rams on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving gave him pause. Sadler talked through Matthew Stafford being not far from retirement and the strange holiday-eve slot, then took Green Bay while admitting he would not be surprised if the Rams pulled it off. New Orleans he called a blowout. Buffalo he gave to Josh Allen, on the theory that this could be an MVP year. Miami he gave right back to the Packers, because the Dolphins cannot play in the cold.

Chicago on Christmas night went to the Bears. Houston on Monday night went to Green Bay. And then, with the Lions at Lambeau to close it out, Sadler said he could go either way, so he took a second tie.

The final math: nine wins, six losses, two ties.

"We've never had that," Rich said while counting it out on the air, which is one way of saying the show may need to rename the whole segment. Two ties in one season has not happened since 1973, when four teams did it before the overtime rules changed. No team has done it since 1974.

Sadler in Madison did not just make a pick. Sadler made history, and if it actually comes true, the show will never hear the end of it.