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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - terry - 12-16-2023
(12-16-2023, 01:33 PM)Mick Wrote: I've been reading that Brock Purdy can't possibly be a great quarterback since he has just one 4th quarter comeback. So...which quarterbacks have the most career 4th quarter comebacks? There are four Stanford grads in the Top 60...
Elway, Favre, Brady?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Giants - 12-16-2023
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I've been reading that Brock Purdy can't possibly be a great quarterback since he has just one 4th quarter comeback. So...which quarterbacks have the most career 4th quarter comebacks? There are four Stanford grads in the Top 60...
Elway, Favre, Brady?
Staubach, Montana, Stabler, Marino, Bradshaw?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - skip75 - 12-16-2023
(12-16-2023, 01:51 PM)terry Wrote:Peyton Manning probably near the top of that list too.(12-16-2023, 01:33 PM)Mick Wrote: I've been reading that Brock Purdy can't possibly be a great quarterback since he has just one 4th quarter comeback. So...which quarterbacks have the most career 4th quarter comebacks? There are four Stanford grads in the Top 60...
Elway, Favre, Brady?
As for Stanford QBs, I would say Elway, Plunkett, Brodie, Luck.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 12-16-2023
(12-16-2023, 02:19 PM)skip75 Wrote:(12-16-2023, 01:51 PM)terry Wrote:Peyton Manning probably near the top of that list too.(12-16-2023, 01:33 PM)Mick Wrote: I've been reading that Brock Purdy can't possibly be a great quarterback since he has just one 4th quarter comeback. So...which quarterbacks have the most career 4th quarter comebacks? There are four Stanford grads in the Top 60...
Elway, Favre, Brady?
As for Stanford QBs, I would say Elway, Plunkett, Brodie, Luck.
All the Stanford QBs are correct, Skip. Elway (#9), Plunkett (T#44), Brodie (#28), Luck (#57).
Terry, great guesses:
Brady, #1 (46)
Peyton Manning, #2 (43)
Brett Favre, #14 (28)
And just for fun, rounding out the top 10:
3. Roethlisberger / 41
4. Matt Ryan / 38
5. Brees / 36
6. Stafford / 35 (and counting)
7. Unitas / 34
8. Marino / 33
T9. Elway, Wilson / 31
Also of interest:
T17. Montana / 26
T21. Tittle / 24
T28. Brodie, Collins, Fouts, Kelly, Rodgers / 21
T36. DeBerg / 19
T44. Plunkett, Bartkowski, Esiaison, Delhomme, Flacco, Alex Smith, Van Brocklin, Cunningham, Charley Johnson / 18
T87. Steve Young (also Staubach, Goff, Garoppolo, Fitzpatrick, Mahomes, Dak Prescott, Beuerlein, Grogan, LeBaron / 13
211. Frankie Albert / 5 (but his career was 1946-52, and the stats only include 1950 onward)
233. Trent Edwards / 4
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 12-17-2023
Who was the first player to throw a pitch in the Marlins organization? Stanford connection.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - skip75 - 12-17-2023
(12-17-2023, 11:08 PM)Mick Wrote: Who was the first player to throw a pitch in the Marlins organization? Stanford connection.That would be John Lynch!
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 12-18-2023
(12-17-2023, 11:40 PM)skip75 Wrote:(12-17-2023, 11:08 PM)Mick Wrote: Who was the first player to throw a pitch in the Marlins organization? Stanford connection.That would be John Lynch!
You are correct Sir! Here's a video of John Lynch on the 10th anniversary of his first pitch in the Marlins' organization (for the Kane County Cougars in 1992) throwing out the first pitch, along with Charlie Hough who threw the first pitch in a Marlins regular season game. Interestingly, Hough's catcher for that game, Jeff Torborg, was the manager of the Marlins, and he caught Hough's pitch on that 10th anniversary.
Lynch's catcher on the Cougars, Mike Redmond, was also on hand to receive the first pitch...he was in his sixth season with the Florida Marlins at that time. A cool moment. Incidentally, the Giants' Edgar Renterria was on that minor league club as a 16 year old.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=2aef356c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VNO9JhVOrw
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - BobK - 12-18-2023
Thus John Lynch is in two Hall of Fames. Well his jersey only in the Baseball Hall
Sports trivia thread, end of 2023 - Mick - 12-29-2023
On Monday, January 1, Michigan and Alabama will meet in the Rose Bowl. Now that the Pac-12 has been reduced to the Pac-2 (plus whoever they can drum up from the MWC and the AAC and Independents and...), I thought I would ask a nostalgia-based question regarding the Rose Bowl that we're never likely to see Stanford participate in again.
First, a few Rose Bowl facts. Michigan was in the first Rose Bowl Game in 1902, facing Stanford. It wasn't played again until 1916, and Alabama participated in six Rose Bowls (1926, '27, '31, '35, '38 and '46) before Michigan returned to the Rose Bowl for a second time in 1948. Alabama is returning for their seventh appearance, Michigan is returning for their 21st appearance.
Here's the history: back when the Pac-12's predecessor conference leaders negotiated with the leaders of the Big 9 conference over the course of (no joke) eight years to agree that the winners of the respective conferences would meet in the Rose Bowl on January 1. Both conferences felt a kinship; e.g., both the PCC and the Big 9 were integrated; the SEC wouldn't become integrated until 1966 and the Cotton, Orange and Sugar Bowls wouldn't become integrated until 1948, 1955 and 1956 respectively. The agreement was concluded in 1946 for a five year term with the first Rose Bowl being played under the agreement on January 1, 1947.
Here's the question: In light of the dissolution of the Pac-12 and the myriad votes that led it to that deeply unsatisfactory conclusion, please note that four teams from the PCC and Big 9 voted against the Rose Bowl committing the winners of the PCC and Big 9 facing each other in the Rose Bowl.
Who were the four schools? And if you choose, why did they vote against the agreement?
Bonus question: Which school dropped out to make the Big 10 the Big 9, and which was the last school to join the Big 9 to again make it The Big 10?
Extra bonus question: Big Nine was the informal name of the conference. What was the conference's technical moniker?
RE: Sports trivia thread, end of 2023 - 82lsju - 12-29-2023
(12-29-2023, 10:25 AM)Mick Wrote: On Monday, January 1, Michigan and Alabama will meet in the Rose Bowl. Now that the Pac-12 has been reduced to the Pac-2 (plus whoever they can drum up from the MWC and the AAC and Independents and...), I thought I would ask a nostalgia-based question regarding the Rose Bowl that we're never likely to see Stanford participate in again.
First, a few Rose Bowl facts. Michigan was in the first Rose Bowl Game in 1902, facing Stanford. It wasn't played again until 1916, and Alabama participated in six Rose Bowls (1926, '27, '31, '35, '38 and '46) before Michigan returned to the Rose Bowl for a second time in 1948. Alabama is returning for their seventh appearance, Michigan is returning for their 21st appearance.
Here's the history: back when the Pac-12's predecessor conference leaders negotiated with the leaders of the Big 9 conference over the course of (no joke) eight years to agree that the winners of the respective conferences would meet in the Rose Bowl on January 1. Both conferences felt a kinship; e.g., both the PCC and the Big 9 were integrated; the SEC wouldn't become integrated until 1966 and the Cotton, Orange and Sugar Bowls wouldn't become integrated until 1948, 1955 and 1956 respectively. The agreement was concluded in 1946 for a five year term with the first Rose Bowl being played under the agreement on January 1, 1947.
Here's the question: In light of the dissolution of the Pac-12 and the myriad votes that led it to that deeply unsatisfactory conclusion, please note that four teams from the PCC and Big 9 voted against the Rose Bowl committing the winners of the PCC and Big 9 facing each other in the Rose Bowl.
Who were the four schools? And if you choose, why did they vote against the agreement?
Bonus question: Which school dropped out to make the Big 10 the Big 9, and which was the last school to join the Big 9 to again make it The Big 10?
Extra bonus question: Big Nine was the informal name of the conference. What was the conference's technical moniker?
Chicago out, Michigan State in
RE: Sports trivia thread, end of 2023 - Mick - 12-29-2023
(12-29-2023, 11:33 AM)82lsju Wrote:(12-29-2023, 10:25 AM)Mick Wrote: On Monday, January 1, Michigan and Alabama will meet in the Rose Bowl. Now that the Pac-12 has been reduced to the Pac-2 (plus whoever they can drum up from the MWC and the AAC and Independents and...), I thought I would ask a nostalgia-based question regarding the Rose Bowl that we're never likely to see Stanford participate in again.
First, a few Rose Bowl facts. Michigan was in the first Rose Bowl Game in 1902, facing Stanford. It wasn't played again until 1916, and Alabama participated in six Rose Bowls (1926, '27, '31, '35, '38 and '46) before Michigan returned to the Rose Bowl for a second time in 1948. Alabama is returning for their seventh appearance, Michigan is returning for their 21st appearance.
Here's the history: back when the Pac-12's predecessor conference leaders negotiated with the leaders of the Big 9 conference over the course of (no joke) eight years to agree that the winners of the respective conferences would meet in the Rose Bowl on January 1. Both conferences felt a kinship; e.g., both the PCC and the Big 9 were integrated; the SEC wouldn't become integrated until 1966 and the Cotton, Orange and Sugar Bowls wouldn't become integrated until 1948, 1955 and 1956 respectively. The agreement was concluded in 1946 for a five year term with the first Rose Bowl being played under the agreement on January 1, 1947.
Here's the question: In light of the dissolution of the Pac-12 and the myriad votes that led it to that deeply unsatisfactory conclusion, please note that four teams from the PCC and Big 9 voted against the Rose Bowl committing the winners of the PCC and Big 9 facing each other in the Rose Bowl.
Who were the four schools? And if you choose, why did they vote against the agreement?
Bonus question: Which school dropped out to make the Big 10 the Big 9, and which was the last school to join the Big 9 to again make it The Big 10?
Extra bonus question: Big Nine was the informal name of the conference. What was the conference's technical moniker?
Chicago out, Michigan State in
Correct. And the formal name of the Big 9/10 was the Western Conference. Without irony, presumably.
Three hints as to the answer to the main question.
Hint #1: two teams each from the PCC and the Western/Big 9 Conference voted against the Rose Bowl arrangement pitting the conference champions against each other...but for two very different reasons.
Hint #2: part of the reason had to do with Army/West Point.
Hint #3: in a bit of irony, the two teams that met in the first year of the pact, January 1, 1947, were two of the teams that voted against the arrangement.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 12-29-2023
Answer: USC and UCLA voted against the contract...not so much that they were against it, they just preferred the flexibility of selecting the best possible opponent from around the country. PCC football was the SEC of its day, as it were. And the best opponent was Army, with Glenn "Mr. Outside" Davis and Felix (Doc) "Mr. Outside" Blanchard. UCLA would end up winning the conference, and they wanted to play Army, so they and USC (which finished third that year) suggested a one-year moratorium before the started the contract.
On the Big 9 side, Illinois, Minnesota, Northwestern and Purdue voted against the PCC proposal. The Illinois faculty was particularly most outspoken, due to the academic disruptions involved for student athletes. Numerous counter-proposals were created, and a final vote was taken. Illinois and Minnesota still demurred, but the vote was 7-2.
So the great irony is that two of the schools that voted against the contract -- Illinois and UCLA -- ended up playing each other in the first Rose Bowl of the new compact.
Here's the rest of the story...
https://pigskinhistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/remember-rose-bowl-part-3-1946-big-nine.html
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - PAsportsfan - 08-16-2024
(07-04-2023, 08:23 AM)BobK Wrote: Two part.
Who is the oldest living former Major League Baseball player? Hint lol He lives near Sonoma
Channel 2 just interviewed him.
https://www.ktvu.com/video/1502126
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - BobK - 08-17-2024
What happened to this tread ??
RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Giants - 08-17-2024
This is the 2023 thread. The 2024 thread is also on Page 1.