A little sports trivia on a Monday morning

60 points is correct.

 

I was going to say joe Schmidt was co mvp in 1960, but apparently the NFL Fact and Record Book may be wrong on this?

 

Is that what it says? Everything I see says Norm Van Brocklin.

EDIT: Schmidt's Wikpedia entry says he was named the NFL's "most valuable defensive player" in '60 and '63. Maybe that was a precursor to the Defensive Player of the Year?

 

Correct on both counts. One to go. Not Tigers.

 

My favorite same-mascot schools are the Freedom High School Eagles (of Prince William County, Va.) and the Freedom High School Eagles (of Loudoun County, Va.) - two schools, opened a year apart, less than 40 miles (as the crow flies) away from each other.

A total pain in the ass when covering a region meet both schools were involved in.

 

Covering Auburn-LSU ain't no fun either.

 

Kobe's 60 was against the Jazz, who I think had been eliminated from the playoffs just before the fourth quarter started and thus said "Fuck it, let's make history."

 

There is apparently some controversy over it. The books I have on my shelf lists Schmidt as co winner in 1960, and Geno Marchetti as 1958 MVP! However, the Marchetti MVP was from a mistake that was never corrected and passed on for years. It was recently excised along with an MVP for Charlie Conerly.

The 1960 award is still debated. Most sources list Van Brocklin solo, but google joe Schmidt 1960 mvp and you find him listed in some odd places as the AP co winner.

And this now ruins one of my favorite trivia facts: name the only surname to have won an MVP in three of the big four pro leagues.

 

What a weird thing to not be nailed down.

Thinking back, I wonder if the question specified "in the Super Bowl era."

 

The other conference is the A-10 — VCU, Rhode Island and Fordham are all the Rams.

 

The history of the “nfl mvp” is convoluted. The general guess is that Schmidt was defensive player of the year, and Van Brocklin was offensive. Somewhat slugged the story, co-mvps, and a legend was born. I want to say 1962 was the first true year that the AP did a full vote for MVP that was published with voting totals, and finally formalized the process. Then there are the other mvp awards like the bert bell and the maxwell. There were a lot of years where they differed on a winner.

 

How so?