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20 unusual facts about american football


Alabama State Route 267

For its entire 5.1 mile (8.2 km) length, SR-267 is known as the Shug Jordan Parkway (named for Auburn University football coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan).

Basketball positions

They are responsible for directing plays, making the position equivalent to that of play-making midfielder in association football, setter in volleyball, quarterback in American football, or center in ice hockey.

Bobbie E. Brown

He qualified as an expert with every weapon in army's arsenal and took up boxing and American football.

Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association

Brentwood was highly successful in sports competition, winning nine state football championships between 1969, when it was founded, and 1997.

Bught

The sports fields are used as the home grounds for Inverness Blitz American football home games.

Finger Lakes Falcons

The Finger Lakes Falcons are an independent women's football team based in the Finger Lakes area of New York and set to begin play for 2012.

Goodyear Silents

The Goodyear Silents were a semi-professional football team based in Akron, Ohio, composed of deaf players.

Grainger Stadium

Grainger Park was shared by the Kinston Eagles of the Coastal Plain League and the Grainger High School Red Devils who used it for both baseball and football.

Jack Batton

Batton graduated in 1932 from Minden High School, where in the fall of 1931 he played football.

John F. Laboon

In 1942, he was a member of the All-East Football Team, and in 1943, "jumped ship" to lacrosse, where he was selected for the Intercollegiate National Championship Navy Lacrosse Team, defenseman on the All-American Lacrosse Squad, and participated in the North-South All-Star game.

KHSAA Commonwealth Gridiron Bowl

The KHSAA Commonwealth Gridiron Bowl is a series of football games, typically held on the first weekend of December, that determine the high school champions of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

Louis Dewis

Robinson was already famous in the United States for having thrown, in 1906, the first forward pass in an American football game.

Pinky Babb

Julius Wistar "Pinky" Babb (born in Princeton, South Carolina) is one of the nation's most storied high school football coaches.

Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips

They became notorious when several men identified as members of the Rollin' 60 were arrested by police investigating the murders of the family of Kermit Alexander, an All-American football icon.

Super Agent

In each episode the sports agents were given assignments that allowed them to demonstrate their skills and talents as agents for Cody as he deliberated on which agent would ultimately be hired to manage his multi-million dollar American football career.

The Forward Pass

The Forward Pass, also known as To match tis doxis in Greece, is a 1929 black-and-white American football musical film directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Loretta Young.

This Modern Age

When Valentine and Tony are involved in car wreck, they are rescued from his overturned car by football-playing Harvardian Bob Blake Jr. (Neil Hamilton).

Tingley Field

Eventually, the city redeveloped Tingley Field into a public park with softball and football fields.

Win probability

For example: An American football win probability system would take several variables into consideration most notably: score, time left, and field position.

WREC

In the fall of 2006, WREC assumed the broadcast rights for the football and basketball teams of the University of Memphis.


1986 NBA Playoffs

Game 2, where the record was set, was ranked by TV Guide as the 26th Most Memorable Moment in Television History and is credited with boosting the NBA's popularity surge and eventual rise to near the top of the United States television sports market, trailing only football by the mid-90s.

Alvord Wolff

Alvord Wolff (born c. 1918) was an American football player who played for Santa Clara University was selected as a consensus All-American at the tackle position in 1938.

Antwaun Carter

After limited scholarship offers coming out of high school, he enrolled at Sacramento City College, eventually drawing attention from Boise State University head coach Dan Hawkins, and transferred to join Boise State's 'tailback by committee' approach as a short yardage and goal line back.

Atwood Stadium

Beecher is coached by former NFL player Courtney Hawkins, while Northwestern also has a famous alum as a coach, Andre Rison.

Bo Jackson Baseball

The game features athlete Bo Jackson, who at the time of the game's release was a star in professional baseball and a former professional football player.

Bob Schloredt

He played in the 1960 and 1961 Rose Bowls and is the first, of only four players (the others are Charles White, Ron Dayne, and Vince Young), to be twice named the Most Valuable Player.

Bree Cuppoletti

Randolph Bruno "Bree" Cuppoletti (born June 19, 1910 – September 22, 1960) was a professional American football player who played guard for six seasons for the Chicago Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.

Bruce Herron

In December 2012, Herron and former players Raymond Austin and Gerry Sullivan filed a lawsuit against the NFL over their handling of concussions.

Charter Oak State College

Notable alumni include former professional football player Marvin Jones, Oklahoma State Representative Jason Murphey, Rhode Island State Representative Larry Valencia, and Connecticut television news anchor Al Terzi.

Chasing the Bear

The recollection ends with Spenser going off to college in Boston on a football scholarship.

Chris Denari

Then he announced with Jeremy Leman and Tony Banks the Louisiana Tech at Illinois game in Champaign Illinois.

Chris Polian

He was the vice president and general manager of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League from 2009 to 2011.

Clay Matthews, Jr.

Clay and his brother Bruce competed with members of their family on the popular TV game show Family Feud, with Richard Dawson.

Dan Neal

Dan Neal (born August 30, 1949 in Corbin, Kentucky) is a former American Football player who played offensive line for eleven seasons between 1973 and 1983 for the Baltimore Colts and the Chicago Bears.

Daryl Dickey

For most of his college career, Dickey was a backup to star quarterbacks Alan Cockrell and Tony Robinson.

Dick Frahm

Herald Samuel Frahm (April 11, 1906 – October 19, 1977) was an American football halfback for the Staten Island Stapletons, the Boston Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the St. Louis/Kansas City Blues of the 1934 version of the American Football League.

Doug Van Horn

Douglas Claydon Van Horn (born June 24, 1944 in Sedalia, Missouri) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions and New York Giants.

Edd Hargett

Edward Eugene Hargett (born June 26, 1947 in Marietta, Texas) is a former American football quarterback for Texas A&M University who went on to play professionally for the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.

Florida Tech Panthers football

The Florida Tech Panthers football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Florida Institute of Technology located in the U.S. state of Florida.

Gary Zimmerman

Zimmerman joins Reggie White, Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Marv Levy, and Sid Gillman as former USFL league members who are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Ground game

In American football, an offensive strategy based on running the ball rather than relying on the forward pass

Hal Lewis

Hal Lewis (American football, born 1944), American football player for the Denver Broncos, see List of American Football League players

Jack Cassel

Jack's younger brother, Matt Cassel, is an American football player with the Minnesota Vikings, and his other younger brother, Justin Cassel, is a minor league baseball player in the farm system of the Chicago White Sox.

Jay Kordich

After three years in the United States Navy, he won a football scholarship to the University of Southern California and in 1949 was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

Jeff Cravath

He graduated from Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California, and entered the University of Southern California, starring as a center on the football team from 1924 to 1926; among his teammates was a young John Wayne and Ward Bond.

Jeff Dellenbach

Jeffrey Alan Dellenbach (born February 14, 1963 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers, and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Joe Rutgens

Joseph Casimiere Rutgens (born January 26, 1939 in Cedar Point, Illinois) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins.

John Carrell

John Carrell (American football), American football player for the Houston Oilers, see 1965 NFL Draft

Josh Taves

Josh Heinrich Taves (aka Josh Heinrich; born May 13, 1972, in Watsonville, California) is a former professional American football player.

Kenneth R. Shadrick

During his sophomore year in 1948, he developed an interest in American football and managed to make the school's team, though he was small for his age.

Keyuo Craver

Keyuo Boderek Craver (born August 22, 1980 in Dallas, Texas) is an American football defensive back currently playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, who signed Craver as a free agent on March 5, 2009.

Maurkice Pouncey

Pouncey entered the 2010 NFL Draft as the consensus No. 1 center available, ahead of Matt Tennant, J. D. Walton, and Eric Olsen.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Nicky Savoie

Nicky John Savoie (born on September 21, 1973 in Cut Off, Louisiana) is a former American football tight end who has a one year career in the National Football League.

Pat Swilling

Patrick Travis Swilling (born October 25, 1964) is a former American football linebacker in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, and Oakland Raiders, and a former delegate in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Paul Schwegler

Paul Anthony Schwegler, born May 22, 1907 to immigrant parents from Germany and Russian Poland, was an American football defensive tackle.

Platooning quarterbacks

One common reason teams platoon quarterbacks is because one player is a good passer and the other a good runner (see for example Stanley Jackson and Joe Germaine of the 1997 Ohio State Buckeyes).

Ralph Capron

He also played football in the American Professional Football Association (Later renamed the National Football League in 1922) with the Chicago Tigers in 1920.

Randy Hughes

Hughes played football at Tulsa Memorial High School, where he was chosen by the Tulsa World newspaper as the Prep Player of the Year, becoming the first defensive back to ever win the award.

Remco van Eijden

His walk-on music at the Lakeside was the theme tune to NFL on Fox, which related to van Eijden being a huge American football fan, in particular the San Francisco 49ers.

Rodrigo Barnes

Rodrigo DeTriana Barnes (born February 10, 1950 in Waco, Texas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Ryan Castro

While attending East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (ESU) to play NCAA Division II American football, he became involved in theater after taking acting classes with Erma Duricko.

Shelley Adler

After a single term, John Adler was defeated in 2010 by Jon Runyan, a member of the Republican party and a former football player.

Tonawanda High School

The school's football field was at one time the home of the Tonawanda Kardex, a professional football team, who achieved fame by playing in just one game as a member of the National Football League in 1921.

Triple option

This has been greatly popularized by the success of coaches such as Rich Rodriguez, Mark Helfrich, and Urban Meyer.

Vaughan Johnson

Vaughan Monroe Johnson (born March 24, 1962 in Morehead City, North Carolina) is a retired American football linebacker.