[BostonCard]

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Senegal and Japan finished group play with an equal number of points and goals.  Which team advanced and what was the tiebreaker used to decide?

BC

[BostonCard]

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Senegal and Japan finished group play with an equal number of points and goals.  Which team advanced and what was the tiebreaker used to decide?

BC

[skip75]

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Senegal and Japan finished group play with an equal number of points and goals.  Which team advanced and what was the tiebreaker used to decide?

BC

Educated guess - Japan advanced on "fair play" points (fewer yellow and red cards).

[skip75]

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Senegal and Japan finished group play with an equal number of points and goals.  Which team advanced and what was the tiebreaker used to decide?

BC

Educated guess - Japan advanced on "fair play" points (fewer yellow and red cards).

[Mick]

Not really a trivia question, but in keeping with the NFL trivia, here's my All-Time, All-NFL, team of the best players that are not in the NFL Hall of Fame:

QB   Ken Anderson (4 pro bowls).
RB   Roger Craig (4 pro bowls, first player in NFL to have 1,000 yards rushing and receiving the same season)
RB   Rickey "For Who? For What?" Watters (5 pro bowls). 
WR  Torry Holt (7 pro bowls)
WR  Reggie Wayne (6 pro bowls)
TE   Brent Jones (4 pro bowls)
OT   Mike Kenn (5 pro bowls)
OT   Jim Tyrer (9 pro bowls)
C Jay Hilgenberg (7 pro bowls)
OG  Steve Wisniewski (8 pro bowls)
OG  Walt Sweeney (9 pro bowls)
OG  Ed Budde (7 pro bowls)

DT  Steve McMichael (two all pros, 92.5 career sacks)
DT  Roger Brown (6 all pros)
DE  L.C. Greenwood (6 pro bowls)
DE  Jim Marshall (just 2 pro bowls, but 20 years on the DL)
LB   Randy Gradishar (7 pro bowls)
LB   Zach Thomas (7 pro bowls)
LB   Chuck Howley (6 pro bowls)
LB   Maxie Baughan (9 pro bowls)
CB  Lester Hayes (5 pro bowls)
CB  Lamar Parrish (8 pro bowls.
CB  Ken Riley (65 INTs, #5 all time)
S    Darren Woodson (5 pro bowls)
S    Johnny Robinson (7 pro bowls)
ST  Steve Tasker, 7 pro bowls for special teams

HM for Lee Roy Jordan (5 pro bowls)Hines Ward (4 pro bowls) and WR Sterling Sharpe and LB Patrick Willis for careers cut short. Lots of WRs with 2-5 pro bowls, including John Taylor, Billy White Shoes Johnson, Sterling Sharpe, Henry Ellard, Herman Moore, and Gino Cappelletti. Other QBs who have 4 pro bowls but aren't in the HoF include Randall Cunningham, Esiason, Bledsoe. HM to RBs Cookie Gilchrist and Larry Brown who had four pro bowls each, HM OT Joe Jacoby (4 pro bowls).

[Mick]

Not really a trivia question, but in keeping with the NFL trivia, here's my All-Time, All-NFL, team of the best players that are not in the NFL Hall of Fame:

QB   Ken Anderson (4 pro bowls).
RB   Roger Craig (4 pro bowls, first player in NFL to have 1,000 yards rushing and receiving the same season)
RB   Rickey "For Who? For What?" Watters (5 pro bowls). 
WR  Torry Holt (7 pro bowls)
WR  Reggie Wayne (6 pro bowls)
TE   Brent Jones (4 pro bowls)
OT   Mike Kenn (5 pro bowls)
OT   Jim Tyrer (9 pro bowls)
C Jay Hilgenberg (7 pro bowls)
OG  Steve Wisniewski (8 pro bowls)
OG  Walt Sweeney (9 pro bowls)
OG  Ed Budde (7 pro bowls)

DT  Steve McMichael (two all pros, 92.5 career sacks)
DT  Roger Brown (6 all pros)
DE  L.C. Greenwood (6 pro bowls)
DE  Jim Marshall (just 2 pro bowls, but 20 years on the DL)
LB   Randy Gradishar (7 pro bowls)
LB   Zach Thomas (7 pro bowls)
LB   Chuck Howley (6 pro bowls)
LB   Maxie Baughan (9 pro bowls)
CB  Lester Hayes (5 pro bowls)
CB  Lamar Parrish (8 pro bowls.
CB  Ken Riley (65 INTs, #5 all time)
S    Darren Woodson (5 pro bowls)
S    Johnny Robinson (7 pro bowls)
ST  Steve Tasker, 7 pro bowls for special teams

HM for Lee Roy Jordan (5 pro bowls)Hines Ward (4 pro bowls) and WR Sterling Sharpe and LB Patrick Willis for careers cut short. Lots of WRs with 2-5 pro bowls, including John Taylor, Billy White Shoes Johnson, Sterling Sharpe, Henry Ellard, Herman Moore, and Gino Cappelletti. Other QBs who have 4 pro bowls but aren't in the HoF include Randall Cunningham, Esiason, Bledsoe. HM to RBs Cookie Gilchrist and Larry Brown who had four pro bowls each, HM OT Joe Jacoby (4 pro bowls).

[BostonCard]

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Senegal and Japan finished group play with an equal number of points and goals.  Which team advanced and what was the tiebreaker used to decide?

BC

Educated guess - Japan advanced on "fair play" points (fewer yellow and red cards).

Good call.  First time that happened.

BC

[BostonCard]

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Senegal and Japan finished group play with an equal number of points and goals.  Which team advanced and what was the tiebreaker used to decide?

BC

Educated guess - Japan advanced on "fair play" points (fewer yellow and red cards).

Good call.  First time that happened.

BC

[Phogge]

Not Otto Graham Bobbbbbbb.

[Phogge]

Not Otto Graham Bobbbbbbb.

[BobK]

Then Marion Motley

[BobK]

Then Marion Motley

[Phogge]

Frankie Albert.

First AFL MVP 1960, Abner Hayes.

First NFL MVP, Mel Hein.

[Phogge]

Frankie Albert.

First AFL MVP 1960, Abner Hayes.

First NFL MVP, Mel Hein.

[Phogge]

Hopes this gets by the mods and the CIA.

Who or what were/is the individuals or groups for the following nicknames.

Fudgehammer
The King
The Geek
The Toe (2 kickers)
The Seven Mules
The Reading Rifle
Bucko
Bonehead
The Fordham Flash
Rapid
Daffy
The Wild Horse of the Osage

[Phogge]

Hopes this gets by the mods and the CIA.

Who or what were/is the individuals or groups for the following nicknames.

Fudgehammer
The King
The Geek
The Toe (2 kickers)
The Seven Mules
The Reading Rifle
Bucko
Bonehead
The Fordham Flash
Rapid
Daffy
The Wild Horse of the Osage

[skip75]

Hopes this gets by the mods and the CIA.

Who or what were/is the individuals or groups for the following nicknames.

Fudgehammer
The King
The Geek
The Toe (2 kickers)
The Seven Mules
The Reading Rifle
Bucko
Bonehead
The Fordham Flash
Rapid
Daffy
The Wild Horse of the Osage

Lou "The Toe" Groza
The Reading Rifle was Carl Furillo - Brooklyn Dodgers' "Boys of Summer" RF with a rifle arm
Fordham Flash was Frankie Frisch
"Rapid" Robert Feller
"Daffy" Dean (Diz' brother Paul)
The Wild Horse of the Osage was Pepper Martin

[skip75]

Hopes this gets by the mods and the CIA.

Who or what were/is the individuals or groups for the following nicknames.

Fudgehammer
The King
The Geek
The Toe (2 kickers)
The Seven Mules
The Reading Rifle
Bucko
Bonehead
The Fordham Flash
Rapid
Daffy
The Wild Horse of the Osage

Lou "The Toe" Groza
The Reading Rifle was Carl Furillo - Brooklyn Dodgers' "Boys of Summer" RF with a rifle arm
Fordham Flash was Frankie Frisch
"Rapid" Robert Feller
"Daffy" Dean (Diz' brother Paul)
The Wild Horse of the Osage was Pepper Martin

[Phogge]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

[Phogge]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

[Giants]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Seven Mules - Irish linemen who played in front of the Four Horsemen. 
Joe (the Toe) Vetrano?  
The King - Arnold Palmer or Elvis Presley

[Giants]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Seven Mules - Irish linemen who played in front of the Four Horsemen. 
Joe (the Toe) Vetrano?  
The King - Arnold Palmer or Elvis Presley

[cardcrimson]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Sergeant Hulka.

[cardcrimson]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Sergeant Hulka.

[Mick]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Sergeant Hulka.

Our newest and bestest friend...

[Mick]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Sergeant Hulka.

Our newest and bestest friend...

[cardcrimson]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Sergeant Hulka.

Our newest and bestest friend...

. . . and big toe.

[cardcrimson]

V.G. Skip. Who was the other "Toe?"

Sergeant Hulka.

Our newest and bestest friend...

. . . and big toe.

[Phogge]

Veteran yep.
The Geek, Bob St.Clair
The King, Hugh McEllheny
Bucks Kilroy
Bonehead, Frank Merkyl

[Phogge]

Veteran yep.
The Geek, Bob St.Clair
The King, Hugh McEllheny
Bucks Kilroy
Bonehead, Frank Merkyl

[BobK]

Not Bucko Kilroy Ah did it to me too apple correction to Bucks

[BobK]

Not Bucko Kilroy Ah did it to me too apple correction to Bucks

[Mick]

A few years before the introduction of the "live" baseball, there were two pitchers who hit so well that they transitioned into full time hitter/fielders. Their 1918 hitting statistics (batting average, total bases, RBIs) were virtually identical. One was Babe Ruth. Who was the other? Hint: at one time, he had been a teammate of Ruth's.

[Mick]

A few years before the introduction of the "live" baseball, there were two pitchers who hit so well that they transitioned into full time hitter/fielders. Their 1918 hitting statistics (batting average, total bases, RBIs) were virtually identical. One was Babe Ruth. Who was the other? Hint: at one time, he had been a teammate of Ruth's.

[BobK]

No idea on 1918 but later Stan Musial while in the minors and lefty O’Doul

Edit actually about 1919 it could be O’Doul

[BobK]

No idea on 1918 but later Stan Musial while in the minors and lefty O’Doul

Edit actually about 1919 it could be O’Doul

[Phogge]

It is O'Doul.

[Phogge]

It is O'Doul.

[Mick]

It was Smoky Joe Wood.  Terrific pitcher, career 117-57, played with Ruth on the Red Sox in 1914 and 1915.

In 1918, Wood was playing for Cleveland and it was Wood's first full season as a batter. He equaled Ruth in batting average (.296/.300), RBIs (66/61), total bases (176/170) and runs scored (41/50).

[Mick]

It was Smoky Joe Wood.  Terrific pitcher, career 117-57, played with Ruth on the Red Sox in 1914 and 1915.

In 1918, Wood was playing for Cleveland and it was Wood's first full season as a batter. He equaled Ruth in batting average (.296/.300), RBIs (66/61), total bases (176/170) and runs scored (41/50).