NFL Trivia
It has been a while since I posted any trivia. Now, that the football season is in full swing here, I thought that it is a good time to post some NFL trivia. This quiz again was prepared by one of my project mates here at work, for our bi-monthly trivia sessions. This trivia is a real hard one, in that couple of my friends who are like walking football encyclopedias, could not answer many of the questions in the list. I knew the correct answer to only 2 questions out of the 10 that were asked. So, here are the questions:
1) What number Super Bowl will it be this football season?
2) Name the top 3 players (excluding the quarterback) with the most touchdowns in a single season
3) Who was the first head coach to coach in 6 super bowls?
4) What is the maximum number of points a team has scored in a single game?
5) Who was the first running back to rush for more than 2000 yards in a single season?
6) How many Super bowl MVP awards did Joe Montana win?
7) Name the top 3 players with the most career touchdowns to their name?
8) What is the most number of sacks by a single player in a game?
9) How many AFC Championship games did John Elway win?
10) Which team has the biggest of all the stadiums in the NFL?
While on football, my mother on watching this game, goes: Why is this game called football when most of the players merely carry or thrown the ball? That was actually an interesting question but a simple google search gave me the answer. Thought of sharing it with you guys:
The origin of American football is in the history of the world's most popular sport: soccer. When soccer -- more universally known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- participants decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use of hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that.
Do you guys know of any other theories? The answers to the trivia as always will be in the comments section.
1) What number Super Bowl will it be this football season?
2) Name the top 3 players (excluding the quarterback) with the most touchdowns in a single season
3) Who was the first head coach to coach in 6 super bowls?
4) What is the maximum number of points a team has scored in a single game?
5) Who was the first running back to rush for more than 2000 yards in a single season?
6) How many Super bowl MVP awards did Joe Montana win?
7) Name the top 3 players with the most career touchdowns to their name?
8) What is the most number of sacks by a single player in a game?
9) How many AFC Championship games did John Elway win?
10) Which team has the biggest of all the stadiums in the NFL?
While on football, my mother on watching this game, goes: Why is this game called football when most of the players merely carry or thrown the ball? That was actually an interesting question but a simple google search gave me the answer. Thought of sharing it with you guys:
The origin of American football is in the history of the world's most popular sport: soccer. When soccer -- more universally known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- participants decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use of hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that.
Do you guys know of any other theories? The answers to the trivia as always will be in the comments section.
posted by Filbert at 1:49 PM
3 Comments:
1) 41
2) Shaun Alexander, 2005 (28)
Priest Holmes, 2003 (27), Marshall Faulk, 2000 (26)
3) Don Shula
4) 72 points, Washington Redskins vs. NY Giants, Nov. 27, 1966
5) O.J. Simpson
6) 3
7) Jerry Rice (208), Emmitt Smith (175) and Marcus Allen (145)
8) 7 sacks by Derrick Thomas, Kansas City Vs Seattle, Nov 11, 1990
9) 6
10) The FedEx field, home of the Washington Redskins, can hold upto 86,500 seats
I'm not sure .. I think The American football derives its name from the fact that its One "foot" long. I 'll have to confirm it though.
Barani
That is a very interesting explanation and something which makes some sense too. But my friend here says that (after googling) the ball is 11 to 11.25 inches long. Thanks for your comment, Barani.
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