Obscure sports trivia

Oh yea,it was 7-7 so it's a Chief. Fred Arbanas?

 

It was a chief. It was a pass catch. Was not arbanas.

 

Not Otis, but it was a chief

 

The answer: fullback Curtis McClinton, whose middle name is Realious and later earned a degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.


Next Super Bowl question: Jalen Hurts is the first quarterback who lost in his first SB to return to the SB since who?

 

It’s probably more recent than this, but I’ll start with an obvious guess: Jim Kelly.

 

It was Kelly. Kind of blew my mind.

 

After I posted that, I started thinking about more recent teams that had lost and had been back in a short span. The 49ers? No, they got there with Kaepernick, Jimmy G and Purdy.Then I thoght it might be a trick question, that a guy had been a backup QB with a team that lost and came back as a starter (or even a backup again) with another, like maybe Matt Hasselbeck, who was Favre's backup with Green Bay.

 

Back story: my wife does events and last night came home to talk about the local big college football schedule. Aka, what days she will be doing football events and what weekends she will be doing weddings and such. She then admitted she spent a good half hour trying to figure out what school was BYE on the schedule. She finally realized that was the off week, and for some reason she also thought it was BI week.

Any way she asked me what meant BYE meant based on my former career, and I had to say I had no true idea. So, I looked it up, and now ask my obscured sports question:

What does bye stand for?

 

Which MLB player has the most career runs plate appearances without being hit by a pitch. Some hints:

— played 11 years
— mostly at second base
— 3664 plate appearances.

 

Pretty sure the original meaning of "bye" in the sports sense did not mean merely a day or week off on the schedule. It meant you get to pass by a round in a tournament and move on to the next round.

At some point, people began using it incorrectly to denote an off week, and, like "hopefully" and many others, it was used that way enough that the incorrect definition became accepted. Though it appears Merriam Webster is still holding firm: Definition of BYE.

I still do not refer to an NFL team's off week as its bye. I call it an off week. But while I gamely fight on, I acknowledge I have long since lost that battle. Just as I long ago lost the battle on "glamor" -- which is how it was spelled in the U.S. for years and years, 'cause this ain't England, by God -- vs. "glamour".

 

Yes, it was short for “bypass” as in a tournament sense.

 

Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans won the NCAA championship in 1979. What team defeated them in their final conference game? I only remember this because of the buzzer-beater finale.