Another addition we've made to Pro-Football-Reference's Team Game Finder tool are searches for combined accepted penalties in a game, as well as combined accepted penalty yards in a game. Previously, you could already search penalties on either side, but now you can have a fuller look at games by searching for those combined figures.

This addition comes just as the first game of the 2018 season finished with a combined 26 penalties. While it's a common refrain that Week 1 is particularly penalty-happy due to teams shaking off rust, here's a look at how high Thursday's matchup finished among Week 1 games in the post-merger era (since 1970).

Query Results Table Pena Pena Pena Pena Pena Pena Rk Tm Date Opp Week Day Result Pen Yds OppPen OppYds CombPen CombPenYds 1 TEN 2003-09-07 OAK 1 Sun W 25-20 11 111 17 173 28 284 2 PHI 2018-09-06 ATL 1 Thu W 18-12 11 101 15 135 26 236 3 STL 1996-09-01 CIN 1 Sun W 26-16 11 61 15 96 26 157 4 ATL 1990-09-09 HOU 1 Sun W 47-27 16 139 9 70 25 209 5 OAK 1977-09-18 SDG 1 Sun W 24-0 13 105 12 103 25 208 6 OAK 2011-09-12 @ DEN 1 Mon W 23-20 15 131 10 91 25 222 7 KAN 1998-09-06 OAK 1 Sun W 28-8 9 63 15 134 24 197 8 WAS 2012-09-09 @ NOR 1 Sun W 40-32 12 127 12 107 24 234 View Original Table

Generated 9/7/2018. Provided by Pro-Football-Reference.com Generated 9/7/2018.

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