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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 03-06-2023
Only three non-kickers have played more than 300 NFL games. Who are they?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - skip75 - 03-06-2023
(03-06-2023, 10:27 PM)Mick Wrote: Only three non-kickers have played more than 300 NFL games. Who are they?I'll cherry-pick Tom Brady, then guess Drew Brees & Brett Favre.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 03-06-2023
(03-06-2023, 10:32 PM)skip75 Wrote:(03-06-2023, 10:27 PM)Mick Wrote: Only three non-kickers have played more than 300 NFL games. Who are they?I'll cherry-pick Tom Brady, then guess Drew Brees & Brett Favre.
Brady and Favre are correct. Brees topped out at 287.
Last one is a wide receiver, Jerry Rice. Brady (335), Rice (303), Favre (302).
How many Stanford alums have played 200 or more NFL games?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - skip75 - 03-06-2023
I'll guess 2 - Brodie & Elway.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 03-06-2023
(03-06-2023, 11:05 PM)skip75 Wrote: I'll guess 2 - Brodie & Elway.
Lofton
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - terry - 03-07-2023
(03-06-2023, 11:09 PM)Giants Wrote:(03-06-2023, 11:05 PM)skip75 Wrote: I'll guess 2 - Brodie & Elway.
Lofton
Lynch?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 03-07-2023
You've got four out of five. Last one is Bob Whitfield:
Elway, 234
Lofton, 233
Lynch, 224
Whitfield, 220
Brodie, 201
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 03-07-2023
The official “Phogge injury report”…
Donovan Walton out for undetermined length of time
And, of course, LaStella (Mariners) is out with a shoulder problem for at least ten days.
MLB might want to consider renaming the “injured list” to the “LaStella list”. Heck, they name awards after players, why not the injured list…..
Since this is the trivia thread, I guess I should add a trivia question: Which former player is associated with the All-Star game MVP award?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 03-07-2023
It was the Ted Willians award but that was awhile ago. Maybe still ?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 03-07-2023
(03-07-2023, 12:34 PM)BobK Wrote: It was the Ted Willians award but that was awhile ago. Maybe still ?
Still is……
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - cardcrimson - 03-07-2023
(03-07-2023, 03:42 PM)Giants Wrote:(03-07-2023, 12:34 PM)BobK Wrote: It was the Ted Willians award but that was awhile ago. Maybe still ?
Still is……
He was, and remains, a head above the rest. . . .
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 03-08-2023
I was one of the pre-eminent figures in the Roaring 20s. My grandfather was on the winning side in the U. S. Civil War, and I got my start as a board boy, updating stock transactions in a New York stock brokerage. In 1913, I opened my own brokerage, in 1917 I purchased the Sierra Nevada mine, and I was being sued for fraud by my customers by 1918. I was indicted by a Federal grand jury in 1923 for perjury and by another Federal grand jury for mail fraud (though I was cleared of all charges).
I worked hard and partied harder. My mistress committed suicide. I was a member of Tammany Hall's political machine. I was a compulsive gambler and owned numerous gambling operations, including a thoroughbred racing stable.
Fifty years before Pele joined the North American Soccer League, I owned a professional soccer team in the fledgling American Soccer League, hugely popular with immigrants to America. I tried to foist American innovation into the sport, thereby infuriating FIFA and the USPFA (U.S. Professional Football Association, the governing body), instigating the "Soccer Wars" and prematurely ending soccer as a favorite pastime of Americans. The Great Depression finally killed it.
I started a professional football team called the New York Giants six years before the NFL started and the "real" New York Giants commenced. Gambler Arnold Rothstein was a close friend and brokered the transaction for which my family largely became known.
Who am I?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - terry - 03-08-2023
(03-08-2023, 06:02 PM)Mick Wrote: I was one of the pre-eminent figures in the Roaring 20s. My grandfather was on the winning side in the U. S. Civil War, and I got my start as a board boy, updating stock transactions in a New York stock brokerage. In 1913, I opened my own brokerage, in 1917 I purchased the Sierra Nevada mine, and I was being sued for fraud by my customers by 1918. I was indicted by a Federal grand jury in 1923 for perjury and by another Federal grand jury for mail fraud (though I was cleared of all charges).
I worked hard and partied harder. My mistress committed suicide. I was a member of Tammany Hall's political machine. I was a compulsive gambler and owned numerous gambling operations, including a thoroughbred racing stable.
Fifty years before Pele joined the North American Soccer League, I owned a professional soccer team in the fledgling American Soccer League, hugely popular with immigrants to America. I tried to foist American innovation into the sport, thereby infuriating FIFA and the USPFA (U.S. Professional Football Association, the governing body), instigating the "Soccer Wars" and prematurely ending soccer as a favorite pastime of Americans. The Great Depression finally killed it.
I started a professional football team called the New York Giants six years before the NFL started and the "real" New York Giants commenced. Gambler Arnold Rothstein was a close friend and brokered the transaction for which my family largely became known.
Who am I?
That's quite a career! And I have no idea who it is.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 03-08-2023
Tim Mara. Grandfather of the Giants owner. Or is too young
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 03-08-2023
(03-08-2023, 07:55 PM)BobK Wrote: Tim Mara. Grandfather of the Giants owner. Or is too young
Pretty close. Think different sport with SFBA connections...
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BostonCard - 03-08-2023
The MLB New York Giants?
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 03-08-2023
(03-08-2023, 08:02 PM)Mick Wrote:(03-08-2023, 07:55 PM)BobK Wrote: Tim Mara. Grandfather of the Giants owner. Or is too youngPretty close. Think different sport with SFBA connections...
(03-08-2023, 09:44 PM)BostonCard Wrote: The MLB New York Giants?
BC
Right! The answer is Charles Stoneham, who purchased the New York Giants baseball team for $1 million in a deal brokered by gambler Arnold Rothstein. Stoneham was the father of Horace Stoneham, who owned the team until selling it to Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth in 1976.
Pretty interesting story: Charles Stoneham
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BostonCard - 03-09-2023
Wow, what a crazy bio. Also, almost sent Ruth back to Boston (the Yankees threatened to move; and was responsible, indirectly, for the Yankees building their own stadium.
Quote: To destroy one of the three teams that opposed him, Johnson persuaded Stoneham to evict the Yankees. This would give Johnson an excuse to force Yankees' owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston to sell the Yankees to a more pliable owner; Johnson even went as far as to promise Stoneham that he could choose Ruppert and Huston's replacement. The move backfired when Ruppert and Huston announced that if Stoneham evicted the Yankees from the Polo Grounds, the Yankees would move to Boston's Fenway Park as tenants of the Red Sox. They would have been well within their rights to do so, since Red Sox owner Harry Frazee had pledged Fenway Park as collateral for a loan from Ruppert. Stoneham realized that if the Yankees left town, he'd lose revenue from a valuable tenant. He also didn't want to be held responsible for forcing Ruth, the biggest star in the game, out of town. With these factors in mind, he renewed the Yankees' lease for one more year. The incident led the Yankees to construct their own park, Yankee Stadium, to ensure that no other team would have the power to deny them a place to play.
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - terry - 03-09-2023
There are 28 players with 500 career home runs.
Which of those 28 players has the most career triples?
Which of those players has the fewest career triples?
Who are the three players with 500 homers and 100 triples?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 03-09-2023
Most triples Willie Mays
100 or more triples. Mays, Babe Ruth
And ?