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Obscure sports trivia

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Chef2, Jan 3, 2019.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    That is the other one, along with the Saints.
    The Broncos' six Super Bowls were all started by QBs drafted elsewhere (Morton, Elway and Manning), and none of their homegrown guys ever got to one.

    Four other teams have also never drafted a QB that started a Super Bowl -- the Cardinals, Browns, Texans and Jaguars. But they never won one, and only the Cardinals have even been to one from that group.
     
  2. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Andy Van Slyke hit it.
     
  3. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    The Cards drafted Namath, back when there was one NFL Draft and one AFL Draft.
     
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  4. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Ok, took me a few times to comprehend the second question, but i think it’s the Patriots: Brady, Bledsoe, Eason, plunkett and garappalo (who my phone suggested as “hates palin” while typing).
     
  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    It is the Patriots, but you missed the sixth QB who put them over the top. Rich Gannon was drafted by them in the fourth round in 1987, then traded to Minnesota soon after.
    Gannon gives the Patriots six, one more than the Steelers (Unitas, Dawson, Bradshaw, Roethlisberger and Neil O'Donnell).
     
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  6. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    My memory is starting to slip. I forgot O’Donnell. I almost said patriots and Steelers, misremembering that morrall was not originally a Steeler. But then I looked at the question again and saw one team so I thought, no morral…but forgot completely that Gannon had been drafted by the pats.
     
  7. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Forty two of the 50 vote getters in the inaugural baseball Hall of Fame election would end up enshrined. Who was the player with the most votes that year, who never made it to Cooperstown without a ticket.

    Impossible bonus: name the unelected eight? (Honestly I had never heard of four of them.)
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I looked it up. Very interesting answers.

    I did hear of all the unelected eight. Some of them were quite prominent in their time.
     
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  9. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    You are better than me. I did find it interesting that one of them didn’t have a particularly great career from a traditional stats sense, but had very strong war numbers. It’s almost as if one writer knew there was more than wins.
     
  10. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Seeing no takers: Hal Chase. Hailed as one the great first basemen of his age and also one of the game’s greatest fixers.
     
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  11. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Name the only two players in MLB history to win ROY, MVP, WS MVP, and be in the HOF?
     
  12. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    I want to go Robinson-Robinson Frank and Jackie but I'm not sure if Jackie got World Series MVP
     
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