10-22-2025, 01:16 PM
Outside Topic Sports trivia thread 2025
10-22-2025, 02:13 PM
It’s not something crazy like Shula, is it? my other guess would’ve Harbaugh (the other one), but both these guys have a SuperBowl that makes up for a number of early flameouts.
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It’s not something crazy like Shula, is it? my other guess would’ve Harbaugh (the other one), but both these guys have a SuperBowl that makes up for a number of early flameouts.
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10-22-2025, 02:25 PM
Dan Reeves?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
Dan Reeves?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
10-22-2025, 02:43 PM
10-22-2025, 03:14 PM
So the one left is inactive but still alive?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
So the one left is inactive but still alive?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
10-22-2025, 03:33 PM
10-23-2025, 12:27 AM
(10-22-2025, 08:09 PM)Mick Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:33 PM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:14 PM)Papa John Wrote: So the one left is inactive but still alive?
Yes.
Is he in Bill Walsh's coaching tree?
Great question. I had to look up the answer. Per Wikipedia, yes, he is listed on the Bill Walsh coaching tree.
(10-22-2025, 08:09 PM)Mick Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:33 PM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:14 PM)Papa John Wrote: So the one left is inactive but still alive?
Yes.
Is he in Bill Walsh's coaching tree?
Great question. I had to look up the answer. Per Wikipedia, yes, he is listed on the Bill Walsh coaching tree.
(10-23-2025, 12:27 AM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 08:09 PM)Mick Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:33 PM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:14 PM)Papa John Wrote: So the one left is inactive but still alive?
Yes.
Is he in Bill Walsh's coaching tree?
Great question. I had to look up the answer. Per Wikipedia, yes, he is listed on the Bill Walsh coaching tree.
Man oh man, must've looked at everyone but - Jeff Fisher (asst under Seifert in the early 90s)?
(This post was last modified: 10-23-2025, 03:32 AM by PalmTree.)
(10-23-2025, 12:27 AM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 08:09 PM)Mick Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:33 PM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:14 PM)Papa John Wrote: So the one left is inactive but still alive?
Yes.
Is he in Bill Walsh's coaching tree?
Great question. I had to look up the answer. Per Wikipedia, yes, he is listed on the Bill Walsh coaching tree.
Man oh man, must've looked at everyone but - Jeff Fisher (asst under Seifert in the early 90s)?
10-23-2025, 10:06 AM
(10-23-2025, 03:31 AM)PalmTree Wrote:(10-23-2025, 12:27 AM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 08:09 PM)Mick Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:33 PM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:14 PM)Papa John Wrote: So the one left is inactive but still alive?
Yes.
Is he in Bill Walsh's coaching tree?
Great question. I had to look up the answer. Per Wikipedia, yes, he is listed on the Bill Walsh coaching tree.
Man oh man, must've looked at everyone but - Jeff Fisher (asst under Seifert in the early 90s)?
You got it!
Fisher
Knox
Schottenheimer
Tomlin
(10-23-2025, 03:31 AM)PalmTree Wrote:(10-23-2025, 12:27 AM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 08:09 PM)Mick Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:33 PM)Giants Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:14 PM)Papa John Wrote: So the one left is inactive but still alive?
Yes.
Is he in Bill Walsh's coaching tree?
Great question. I had to look up the answer. Per Wikipedia, yes, he is listed on the Bill Walsh coaching tree.
Man oh man, must've looked at everyone but - Jeff Fisher (asst under Seifert in the early 90s)?
You got it!
Fisher
Knox
Schottenheimer
Tomlin
(This post was last modified: 10-24-2025, 08:26 AM by PalmTree.)
(10-24-2025, 07:54 AM)BobK Wrote: I just know the giants in 4. 1954
Didn't they pull it off under Bochy? IIRC, the Royals series was tight so either 2010 (Rangers?) or 2012 (Tigers)
Edit: I just remember brooms and cablecars in one of those SF St parades :-)
10-24-2025, 04:07 PM
(10-24-2025, 08:22 AM)PalmTree Wrote:(10-24-2025, 07:54 AM)BobK Wrote: I just know the giants in 4. 1954
Didn't they pull it off under Bochy? IIRC, the Royals series was tight so either 2010 (Rangers?) or 2012 (Tigers)
Edit: I just remember brooms and cablecars in one of those SF St parades :-)
You got it, PalmTree. Giants defeated the Tigers in four games in 2012, the last MLB team to sweep a World Series.
2012 World Series - San Francisco Giants over Detroit Tigers (4-0) | Baseball-Reference.com
Audaces fortuna iuvat
(10-24-2025, 08:22 AM)PalmTree Wrote:(10-24-2025, 07:54 AM)BobK Wrote: I just know the giants in 4. 1954
Didn't they pull it off under Bochy? IIRC, the Royals series was tight so either 2010 (Rangers?) or 2012 (Tigers)
Edit: I just remember brooms and cablecars in one of those SF St parades :-)
You got it, PalmTree. Giants defeated the Tigers in four games in 2012, the last MLB team to sweep a World Series.
2012 World Series - San Francisco Giants over Detroit Tigers (4-0) | Baseball-Reference.com
Audaces fortuna iuvat
10-24-2025, 06:11 PM
What college football team went undefeated, won their conference, was voted National Champ in the Coaches Poll and outscored their opponents 367-40 and yet did not go to a bowl. Why?
Note: they were not on probation.
Note: they were not on probation.
WAG, they were integrated and opponents refused to play them?
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I'm going to guess it was a mid-century Pac-8 team for two reasons:
1. For a long time, western teams -- only Pac-8 teams -- could go to the Rose Bowl. There weren't many other Bowls out west.
2. There was a time a Pac-8 team couldn't go to consecutive Rose Bowls.
Just playing the odds, I'd say either USC, UCLA or Cal. Or the 1951 USF Dons. Or Michigan State.
1. For a long time, western teams -- only Pac-8 teams -- could go to the Rose Bowl. There weren't many other Bowls out west.
2. There was a time a Pac-8 team couldn't go to consecutive Rose Bowls.
Just playing the odds, I'd say either USC, UCLA or Cal. Or the 1951 USF Dons. Or Michigan State.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
I'm going to guess it was a mid-century Pac-8 team for two reasons:
1. For a long time, western teams -- only Pac-8 teams -- could go to the Rose Bowl. There weren't many other Bowls out west.
2. There was a time a Pac-8 team couldn't go to consecutive Rose Bowls.
Just playing the odds, I'd say either USC, UCLA or Cal. Or the 1951 USF Dons. Or Michigan State.
1. For a long time, western teams -- only Pac-8 teams -- could go to the Rose Bowl. There weren't many other Bowls out west.
2. There was a time a Pac-8 team couldn't go to consecutive Rose Bowls.
Just playing the odds, I'd say either USC, UCLA or Cal. Or the 1951 USF Dons. Or Michigan State.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
10-24-2025, 07:35 PM
Excellent Mick. Ucla is the answer and they went to the Rose Bowl in 1953. So despite their 1954 record and beating Stanford 72-0 they couldn’t go again with the no repeat rule
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