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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Mick - 10-18-2026
When Brock Purdy makes his fifth pass tomorrow night, he will be the all-time NFL leader for passer rating (minimum 1,500 passes). Purdy's career passer rating is 105.4 currently.
One NFL team has the most quarterbacks on the NFL Top 50 Career Passer Rating list with seven. Three more teams are tied with three. 11 teams have two. 12 teams have just one quarterback on the all-time top 50 career passer rating list.
Trivia questions:
1. Which is the only team that has seven QBs on the list of 50, and list the QBs?
2. Which three teams have three QBs on the list of 50? (that's the next level down).
3. Five teams have zero quarterbacks on the list. Who are they?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - BostonCard - 10-18-2026
1, when was the last time that five of the top seven ranked teams all lost in college football?
2. When was the last time that Alabama, Georgia, and Texas all lost on the same day?
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Mick - 10-18-2026
(10-18-2026, 08:00 PM)BostonCard Wrote: 1, when was the last time that five of the top seven ranked teams all lost in college football?
2. When was the last time that Alabama, Georgia, and Texas all lost on the same day?
BC
1. I don't think that ever happened. I seem to recall that five of the top eight teams all lost on one day. But I don't think five of the top seven ranked teams ever lost on the same day.
2. Alabama, Georgia and Texas all losing on the same day? I would guess when either DuBose or Shula coached Alabama, Mack Brown coached Texas, and no idea who coached Georgia. Best guess, a quarter-century ago.
(10-18-2026, 04:05 PM)Mick Wrote: When Brock Purdy makes his fifth pass tomorrow night, he will be the all-time NFL leader for passer rating (minimum 1,500 passes). Purdy's career passer rating is 105.4 currently.
One NFL team has the most quarterbacks on the NFL Top 50 Career Passer Rating list with seven. Three more teams are tied with three. 11 teams have two. 12 teams have just one quarterback on the all-time top 50 career passer rating list.
Trivia questions:
1. Which is the only team that has seven QBs on the list of 50, and list the QBs? San Francisco 49ers
#1, Brock Purdy, 105.4 (when he joins, the man I think of as the best QB -- Otto Graham -- comes off the list at #51)
#10, Jimmy Garoppolo, 97.6
#15, Steve Young, 96.8
#28, Joe Montana, 92.3
#39, Colin Kaepernick, 88.9
#45, Jeff Garcia, 87.5
#49, Alex Smith, 86.9 (incidentally, Mac Jones is T49, but gets listed with the Patriots)
2. Which three teams have three QBs on the list of 50? (that's the next level down).
Cincinnati Bengals (#4 Joe Burrow, 101.3; Carson Palmer #42, 87.9; and Andy Dalton #46, 87.4)
Houston Texans (#8 Deshaun Watson, 98.5; #22 CJ Stroud, 94.0; #37 Matt Schaub, 89.5)
Minnesota Vikings (#14 Kirk Cousins, 96.9; #33 Teddy Bridgewater, 90.3; #43 Daunte Culpepper, 87.8)
3. Five teams have zero quarterbacks on the list. Who are they?
Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Commanders.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - BostonCard - 10-18-2026
Pretty good. That five of the top 7 ranked teams have never lost in the same week end! And the last time Georgia, Alabama, and Texas all lost in the same 24-hour period was back in 1996. I believe back then Nick Saban was still coaching at Michigan State. In fact, I know he was, because he was on the losing end of a thrashing at the hands of none other than Tyrone Willingam's Stanford Cardinal in the Sun Bowl.
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - BostonCard - 10-23-2026
So, neither the Brewers nor the Rays have ever won a World Series. When was the last time that neither of the teams in the World Series had ever won it? Who were the teams?
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - skip75 - 10-24-2026
(10-23-2026, 11:10 PM)BostonCard Wrote: So, neither the Brewers nor the Rays have ever won a World Series. When was the last time that neither of the teams in the World Series had ever won it? Who were the teams?1980 - Phillies beat the Royals.
BC
When was the last time before 1980 - and which teams?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Mick - 10-24-2026
(10-24-2026, 02:43 AM)skip75 Wrote:(10-23-2026, 11:10 PM)BostonCard Wrote: So, neither the Brewers nor the Rays have ever won a World Series. When was the last time that neither of the teams in the World Series had ever won it? Who were the teams?1980 - Phillies beat the Royals.
BC
When was the last time before 1980 - and which teams?
Cubs and White Sox, 1906. WAG.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - skip75 - 10-24-2026
Mick - Your WAG is incorrect (it was later than 1906). But congrats on your Stanford -NC State prediction!
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Mick - 10-24-2026
(10-24-2026, 08:19 AM)skip75 Wrote: Mick - Your WAG is incorrect (it was later than 1906). But congrats on your Stanford -NC State prediction!
Thank you...would I be out of bounds and tempting the woofing gods if....never mind.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - BostonCard - 10-24-2026
Nice job Skip. It was a long time before that (at least going back to the 20’s) because when I heard the stat, Mick, it was accompanied by the factoid that the World Series had featured two teams that had never won it had only happened once in the last century (1980, Phillies and Royals).
I forgot, are you the Phillies fan amongst us?
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - skip75 - 10-24-2026
Not a Phillies fan.
You are correct that it goes back to the 1920s - 1920 to be exact.
The Cleveland Indians defeated the Brooklyn Robins (who became the Dodgers in 1931) 5 games to 2 in in best-of-nine series. Interesting series - the teams split the first 4 games, then Cleveland won 3 in a row. Stan Coveleski (a spitballer who had won 24 games in the regular season) won games 1 (3-1), 4 (5-1), & 7 (3-0). All 3 wins were complete game. Composite stats were: 27 innings, 15 hits, 2 walks, 8 strikeouts. A bit different from baseball in the 2020s.
Game 5, an 8-1 Cleveland win, featured 3 World Series firsts - a triple play (only unassisted triple play in WS history), a grand slam and a home run by a pitcher. The triple play came with runners at first & second. Cleveland 2B Bill Wambsganss caught a line drive, stepped on second, then tagged the runner from first base. Elmer Smith hit the grand slam, and pitcher Jim Bagby also homered.
Hall of Famers in the Series were: Umpires Bill Klem, Tommy Connolly, & Hank O'Day; Indians Coveleski, Joe Sewell, & Tris Speaker; and Robins Wilbert Robinson (manager), Rube Marquard, Zack Wheat, & Burleigh Grimes.
In the 1920 regular season Ray Chapman had been killed when hit in the head by a pitch.
Cleveland would not win another World Series until 1948, and have not won one since then - the longest drought in MLB. Brooklyn returned to the World Series in 1941, losing to the Yankees. They lost 4 more to the Yankees before finally breaking through with their first win in 1955.
Two related, but easier, questions: Aside from the Brewers & Rays, which teams have never won the World Series? Of these, which is the only one to have never played in a World Series?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - BostonCard - 10-24-2026
My Padres, sadly, is one of them.
Seattle, famously, is another, and I think they are the answer to The Who hasn’t played in the WS.
Colorado might be a third.
BC
Obviously, the innaugural WS featured to teams that had never won it. What was the next World Series that featured two teams that had never won it?
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - skip75 - 10-24-2026
(10-24-2026, 12:04 PM)BostonCard Wrote: My Padres, sadly, is one of them.You nailed it!
Seattle, famously, is another, and I think they are the answer to The Who hasn’t played in the WS.
Colorado might be a third.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Mick - 10-24-2026
Two Major League players accomplished something so bizarre that it has never been repeated in quite the same way. They played against each other in both games of a doubleheader—but each played for a different team in the second game than in the first.
Name the year, the teams, and the players...
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Mick - 10-25-2026
Max Flack of the Chicago Cubs and Cliff Heathcote of the St. Louis Cardinals.
During a Memorial Day doubleheader at Cubs Park, the Cubs defeated the Cardinals 4–1 in the opener.
Between games, the two managers, Bill Killefer and Branch Rickey, negotiated a straight-up trade: Flack for Heathcote.
The players literally swapped uniforms and clubhouses, then took the field for the second game—this time playing against their former teammates!
Even better, both players got hits for their new teams in the second game. The Cubs won again, 3–1.
It remains the only documented instance of two MLB teams exchanging players between games of the same doubleheader and having both immediately play against their former clubs.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - BostonCard - 10-25-2026
(10-24-2026, 12:04 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Obviously, the innaugural WS featured to teams that had never won it. What was the next World Series that featured two teams that had never won it?
BC
Second World Series featuring two teams that have never won it were the New York Giants versus the Philadelphia Athletics in 1905. Giants versus A's!
Giants won it.
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Mick - 10-26-2026
(10-25-2026, 05:38 PM)BostonCard Wrote:(10-24-2026, 12:04 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Obviously, the innaugural WS featured to teams that had never won it. What was the next World Series that featured two teams that had never won it?
BC
Second World Series featuring two teams that have never won it were the New York Giants versus the Philadelphia Athletics in 1905. Giants versus A's!
Giants won it.
BC
Great series. Christy Mathewson pitched three complete-game shutouts, 27 innings, 14 hits, zero runs.
BTW, if you ever want to see some pretty good baseball but avoid the exorbitant prices, the San Jose Giants will have a very good team next year, likely with some of the best prospects in baseball -- not unlike the 2009 SJ Giants which had Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford, Madison Bumgarner, Sergio Romo and a dozen other future and former MLB players. The 2026 San Jose Giants won the California League by nine games with an 80-52 record. Fun fact: their BBQ area is "Turkey Mike's" named after Turkey Mike Donlin, who played for San Jose in 1898 before he went on to stardom with the New York Giants.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - BobK - 10-26-2026
9 San Francisco Giants pitchers have won 20 games or more in a season
Name them
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - Leftcoast - 10-26-2026
(10-26-2026, 09:01 AM)BobK Wrote: 9 San Francisco Giants pitchers have won 20 games or more in a season
Name them
Good question - Here are five guesses:
* Mike Krukow
* John "The Count" Montefusco
* Christy Mathewson
* Gaylord Perry
* Juan Marichal
Did John Burkett do it? Not sure.
If my memory serves none of our most recent pitching stars won 20 games (Madison Bumgarner, Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain)
RE: Sports trivia thread 2025-2026 - terry - 10-26-2026
Ron Bryant?
Mike McCormick?
Rick Reuschel?