Super football. It's a tag yet to creep into the game's ever-expanding vernacular, but if it does, it may well be accompanied by an image of Adelaide from any game this season.

To say the Crows have begun 2017 with a bang would hardly be doing Don Pyke's team justice. It's been more like an AFL version of a nuclear explosion, the damage week after week racked up on the scoreboard. Which has made for some impressive reading.

Adelaide's 806 points after six games is the most any team has scored in the first six weeks of a season since the all-conquering Essendon of 2000, a side so good it lost only one game of 25 on the way to the premiership.

In fact, in 120 seasons of league football, only eight teams have scored more in the same period as the Crows, North Melbourne's 915 points in 1993 the most ever, the Roos booting 229 of them in one game alone, against a then-hapless Sydney.