NFL quiz: How well do you know you pro football history?

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Ok, sports fans, here's a test for you. Answer here. No googling pls. As a former educator/NFL fan, I'll grade your answers and respond to you.
2:36 PM

Good luck.

1. The Decatur Staleys are now known as:

2. What is a flanker?

3. What is a red dog?

4. Right end and left end are now called?

5. Who were the Monsters of the Midway?

6: Who was Concrete Charlie?

7. Who was slinging QB number 9 for the team formerly called the Redskins?

8. Who was the "Mad Bomber"?

9. What franchise started the Thanksgiving Day game:

10. What Redskins QB lead the league in passing and

punting?

11. Who was nicknamed "Snake"?

12: Was the "tuck rule" play a fumble or a tuck?

[rurallib]

1. where can we check our answers?

or are we supposed to answer here?

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4. Answer here. No googling pls. As a former educator/NFL fan, I'll grade your answers.

Good luck.

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17. I'll mail you the answers so to give others a chance without giving the questions away.

[LoisB]

2. #11 - Ken Stabler? I have to think about the others.

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8. Correct again.

[LoisB]

3. #5 - the Chicago Bears?

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7. You are correct.

[LoisB]

5. #9 - Dallas Cowboy?

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13. Try again.

[rurallib]

6. OK

1) Da Bears
2) an end
3) safety rushing the QB
4)tight ends
5) da Bears
6)don't know
7) Slinging Sammy Baugh
8) Bobby Lane
9) Detroit
10) slinging Sammy Baugh
11) Ken Stabler
12) tuck

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18. I'll mail you the answers so to give others a chance without giving the questions away.

You did well.

[Cirsium]

9. guesses

What is a flanker called now? Wide receiver?

Right end and left end are now called "tight ends?"

Sammy Baugh was the slinging QB number 9 for the team formerly called the Redskins. I think he may have been the QB who lead the league in passing and punting, but I am not sure.

The Detroit Lions started the Thanksgiving tradition.

The Bears were the Monsters of the Midway.

The snake was Kennie Stabler I think. (resisting the urge to Google)

I don't know the rest without Googling.

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19. I'll mail you the answers so to give others a chance without giving the questions away.

[LoisB]

10. I am stumped by the rest unless I look them up. Great quiz.

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12. Glad you like it. No googling pls. Ask me which ones you don't know.

I'll don't want to put up the answers until DUers have had a chance to respond.

[LoisB]

23. I'm going to make three more guesses

Left end/right end = tight ends?
Flanker = wide receiver?
Red dog = safety? or defensive back?

You'll have to give me the answers on the rest. I haven't watched football since Fran Tarkenton and I'm old so I have excuses. I didn't Google.

[BoRaGard]

11. #7 Slingin' Sammy Baugh

[AKRicky]

14. NFL quiz: How well do you know you pro football history?

1. Detroit Lions
2. Wide receiver
3. Blitz
4. Edge
5. Chicago Bears
6. ?
7. Sonny Jurgensen
8. Darryl Lamonica
9. Detroit Lions
10. Sammy Baugh
11. Ken Stabler
12. Tuck?

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20. You know your stuff.

I'll mail you the answers so to give others a chance without giving the questions away.

[lastlib]

15. 1. Chicago Bears(?)

2. wide receiver
3. no clue
4. Tight end
5. 1985 Chicago Bears
6. I think Chuck Bednarik
7. Sammy Baugh
8. Darryl Lamonica
9. Bears (?) again
10. Sammy Baugh (again)
11. Ken Stabler, Oakland Raiders
12. Tuck

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21. I'll mail you the answers so to give others a chance without giving the questions away.

Good job.

[WestMichRad]

16. No longer a football fan, but I do remember some of these

1. Dunno. Georgia Bulldogs? Nope, not a NFL team. Wild stab- Atlanta Falcons?
2. Wide receiver, in today’s parlance
3. Linebacker blitz against opposing QB
4. Tight end and/or split receiver?
5. Da Bears defense, back in the Jim McMahon days I think
6. No idea, never heard that nickname
7. Sonny Jurgenson?
8. This is a WAG… Fran Tarkenton?
9. Detroit Lions
10, Another WAG… George Blanda?
11. Kenny Stabler
12. Rule to determine if a caught ball was secured (or not) before an apparent fumble.

Bonus question: What was the nickname of the Detroit Lions QB who won their last league championship, about 9 years before the first Super Bowl?

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22. I'll mail you the answers so to give others a chance without giving the questions away.

I like you bonus question. And you're one of the few who got Sonny Jurgenson, one of my old-time favorite passing QBs.

[calguy]

24. #10 - Joe Thiesman

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47. Just a bit off. It was Slinging Sammy Baugh in 1940.

Thiesman wasn't a punter.

[calguy]

25. #8 - The Mad Bomber - Darrel Lamonica - Oakland Raiders

[Permanut]

26. #8 - Daryll Lamonica

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27. #6 Chuck Bednarik - Eagles

Worked concrete in the off season when players couldn’t live off their football salary. Charlie was a two way player. Center AND HE WAS ONE BADASS LINEBACKER.

[appmanga]

28. A couple of these have the same answer...

1. The Decatur Staleys are now known as
The Chicago Bears

2. What is a flanker?
An outside wide receiver.

3. What is a red dog?
A blitz.

4. Right end and left end are now called?
This is a tough one because some players are still called "ends": defensive ends; tight ends; split ends. I'll say "Tackles" used to be what you're talking about.

5. Who were the Monsters of the Midway?
The Chicago Bears.

6: Who was Concrete Charlie?
Charlie Benardik, a two-way player (Center and Middle Linebacker) for the Philadelphia Eagles.

7. Who was slinging QB number 9 for the team formerly called the Redskins?
Sammy Baugh.

8. Who was the "Mad Bomber"?
Daryl Lamonica of the Oakland Raiders.

9. What franchise started the Thanksgiving Day game:
The Detroit Lions

10. What Redskins QB lead the league in passing and punting?
Sammy Baugh.

11. Who was nicknamed "Snake"?
Ken Stabler.

12: Was the "tuck rule" play a fumble or a tuck?
It was a tuck, not a fumble, and that call kicked off a dynasty and a career of championships that might never be equaled.

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46. Great job, Appmanga. Just about all correct.

One small quibble though. The term split end has gone by the wayside. Probably it started in the late '70s or so with the Charger coarh Don Coryell introducing his great aerial offense now call "Air Coryell." The two receivers began to be called wide receivers then instead of split end and flanker, with the flanker a yard back of line, as per NFL rules.

Thanks for playing.

[gab13by13]

29. Defensive ends

Are called edge rushers.

If the QB tucked the ball and the was hit it’s a fumble, not a forward pass.

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30. You're absolutely right on the tuck rule, it was a fumble. This from a Raider fan.

[gab13by13]

32. This from a Stillers fan

Was working in Tracy, Raider bar, over Christmas.

I blew up the Immaculate Reception, wrapped it up with a bow framed it, and gave it to the bartender.

Wow, he exploded, something about a cheat play?

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36. That was another play that went against my Raiders. Look at the film of the play...

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closely and you'll see a Raider with an angle on Harris get clipped obviously and it wasn't called. Also Harris was the second to touch the ball, against the rules tnen , it also wasn't called.

But that's all water under the bridge. We beat you guys in '76 then won the Super Bowl.

The NFL and Pete Roselle hated the Raiders way back then even...way before they cheated us out of the Tuck rule BS.

[rsdsharp]

31. 1. Chicago Bears

2. A wide receiver who sets up behind the line of scrimmage wide of the tight end.

3. A blitz

4. Y and X

5. Chicago Bears (1940s ish)

6. LB/C Chuck Bednarik of the Eagles

7. Sonny Jurgensen

8. Daryl Lamonica

9. Detroit Lions 1934

10. Slingin’ Sammy Baugh

11. Ken Stabler

12. A tuck

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34. Wow, RS, I believe you've done the best of all. All correct 'cept X Y? You know your stuff.

I'll mail you the answers, as if you need them.

[rsdsharp]

35. In the old days (and it seemed that's what the quiz was about),

The wide receiver (left end in a strong right formation) was the X receiver. The tight end (or closed end in the Lombardi parlance) was the Y receiver, and the flanker was the Z receiver. I look forward to your mail.

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37. Thanks for that info. You must be a Packer fan as that terminology was unknown to me.

[rsdsharp]

38. I've got a pdf of the 1966 playbook.

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39. Ahhhhh.

[rsdsharp]

40. At 3:53 in this video Part one of Lombardi on the power sweep (Red Right 49)

he refers to the tight end as the Y end

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[Innocent Smith]

33. #8 Stopped by our school around 1970

He stopped by St. Anthony's in Fresno. I remember a big crowd of classmates around him and I got his autograph. I must have been 8 or 9.

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45. Good memory. He could throw it.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. I Know Almost All, Except...

...Concrete Charlie. My only guesses are Chuck Bednarik or Charlie Connerly.
The rest I'm pretty sure of.

1. The Decatur Staleys are now known as: Bears

2. What is a flanker? A receiver that we now call "the slot"

3. What is a red dog? An early version of the blitz, where a linebacker makes a delayed rush

4. Right end and left end are now called? Wide receivers

5. Who were the Monsters of the Midway? The Bears

6: Who was Concrete Charlie? See my wild guess above

7. Who was slinging QB number 9 for the team formerly called the Redskins? Sonny Jurgensen (A little iffy on this one)

8. Who was the "Mad Bomber"? Daryl Lamonica (often throwing long to Warren Wells)

9. What franchise started the Thanksgiving Day game: Detroit

10. What Redskins QB lead the league in passing and

punting? Sammy Baugh

11. Who was nicknamed "Snake"? Ken Stabler

12: Was the "tuck rule" play a fumble or a tuck? Officially it was a tuck, though anybody who saw it thinks he fumbled that ball.

[BOSSHOG]

42. Chuck Bednarik is correct

One mean ole Linebacker. He also played Center.

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44. Yep, he was one of the great middle linebackers, before Butkus even.

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43. Prof Gac, thanks for playing. You did well. I'll DU mail you the answers.